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Marie Dave Amundsen

Adviser - IKOS-stab
Image of Marie Dave Amundsen
Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 P. A. Munchs hus 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Tasks performed

Coordinator for the Nordic Research School in Museum and Heritage Studies (NorMus) (from 2026).

I work with the coordination and development of the research school, in close collaboration with the NorMus Director and the board. This includes the planning and organisation of PhD courses, workshops and events, as well as support for international research collaboration. I also work with communication and dissemination activities and with strengthening connections between academic environments and the museum and heritage sector. The role includes contributing to the development of research initiatives and networks.

Background

Project Administrator for ArCHe – Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, Present and Future of a Hidden Prehistoric Legacy (2023–2026), working with coordination, reporting, and international collaboration within an EU-funded Doctoral Network. 

Research, dissemination, and career coordinator at HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative (2022–2024).

Initiator of the campaign “Save the Viking Ships.”

Associate Professor (Førstelektor) in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo (2022).

PhD in Archaeology, University of Oslo, with the dissertation Glimrende gull (2021).

Alongside my studies, I worked as a field archaeologist on projects for the Museum of Cultural History and NIKU. I also worked with public engagement as a museum guide at the Viking Ship Museum and as a guide at Akershus Fortress. In 2015, I was a research assistant at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and contributed to the project Religion and Money at the Museum of Cultural History. I also contributed to the organisation of the ViS conferences in 2014 and 2015.

Master’s degree in Archaeology, University of Oslo (2013).

Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology with a minor in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo (2011).

One-year programme in Intercultural Communication (2008).

Published Mar. 16, 2026 3:01 PM - Last modified June 15, 2026 12:01 PM