Bergen municipality – New Aquarium exhibition shows the municipality’s projects

Bergen’s mayor Marit Warncke opened the exhibition “The changing sea” in the Great Hall at the Aquarium on 3 May. The aquarium has created the exhibition in collaboration with, among others, Clean Harbor Bergen, the project under the auspices of the Urban Environment Agency in Bergen municipality.

Inside the hall, a large screen covers most of one wall. The screen shows video and animated illustrations from the municipality’s clean-up in Store Lungegårdsvannet and Puddefjorden.

– When children and young people

Placards with text and pictures from the work to shine the Byfjorden also adorn the walls, together with a kind of box that children can stick their hand into to “feel” the polluted seabed, which we have now wrapped in new and clean seabed.

– The most important thing about being present at the Aquarium is that here we reach children and young people in a nice and creative way, says Anne Christine Knag, project manager for Renere Havn Bergen.

– Fantastic movie room

The exhibition’s biggest attraction is the film room, where live images and sound surround the audience on all sides. The video installation allows you to join a 360-degree underwater journey that shows how the ocean is changing, as a result of human activity.

The journey starts in Store Lungegårdsvannet, before we move further out into Byfjorden, to the sea, beyond the continental shelf and down towards a depth of 3,000 metres.

– I think the film room was fantastic, says Anne Christine Knag.

“With this exhibition, the Great Hall becomes an important place to give knowledge and hope to future generations. Here you experience the landscape, life and sounds underwater. We show you how our ocean is changing, but also how together we can reverse the trend and contribute to a cleaner and healthier ocean”, is some of what the Aquarium writes about the exhibition.