Brita Brenna

• Brenna, Brita (2026). Luonnontieteet näytteillä: taksonomisista lajinäytteistä dioraamoihin. I Koivunen, Leila & Syrjämaa, Taina (Red.), Puutarhanäyttelyistä biennaaleihin. Näyttelyiden moninainen historia. Gaudeamus. ISSN 9789523453906. s. 250–271. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2026). Collecting Polar Bears. I Kaasa, Janicke S.; Spring, Ulrike & Delsett, Lene Liebe (Red.), Collecting the North. Brill. ISSN 9789004749665. s. 235–251. doi: https:/brill-com.ezproxy.universitetetioslo.no/display/book/9789004749665/BP000021.xml. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2025). Museer og antropocene utfordringer. I Fageraas, Knut; Løken, Marianne; Nævdal, Desiree & Rees, Morien (Red.), Bærekraft på museum. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283051353. s. 336–350. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Det er bare noen få år til FNs bærekraftsmål skal være oppfylt. Selv om framskritt er gjort, er vi på etterskudd med mange av målene. Geopolitiske konflikter fortrenger oppmerksomheten og innsatsen, samtidig som ulikhetene øker – både mellom og innenfor land. Det globale forbruket og klimagassutslippene vokser, og drar utviklingen i motsatt retning av hva som er nødvendig. Behovet for endring har inspirert arbeidet med denne antologien. Hva betyr dette for museene, og for hvordan de drives, samler, forsker og formidler? Den fagfellevurderte antologien «Bærekraft på museum», handler om hvordan museer kan og bør bidra til bærekraftig samfunnsendring.

• Brenna, Brita (2025). Arctic heritage: Territory, thing and the history of it all. I Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (Red.), Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old turns, new encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350532632. s. 117–133. doi: 10.5040/9781350532632.ch-007. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, this volume is a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of the Anthropocene. The first part introduces readers to the key conceptual and theoretical challenges of Anthropocene debates, before the second part analyses a variety of case studies, to highlight how ethnography and cultural history can make certain processes visible and historically tangible. Key case studies explored by the volume range from sustainability in poultry production, to 18th century mining, to natural history and the works of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Finally, the third section explores 5 critical approaches to Anthropocene discourse, and the challenges it may pose to alternative styles of cultural history. Overall, this volume offers a synthesis of conceptual, historical, and critical approaches, that when combined provide a detailed overview of the latest research surrounding the cultural history of the Anthropocene.

• Collet, Dominik; White, Sam; Bremer, Scott; Brenna, Brita; Glørstad, Håkon & Gundersen, Ingar Mørkestøl [Vis alle 13 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs). ISSN 1757-7780. 16(5). doi: 10.1002/wcc.70023. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  First coined in the 1930s, with reference to glaciation in North America, the concept of the “Little Ice Age” has undergone continuous revisions. It has traveled academically from glaciology to climatology, archeology, history, and, most recently, climate communication. Over time, it has grown into one of the most discussed topics in the field of climate history and attracts both considerable scholarly interest and public attention. The term “Little Ice Age” has been criticized for oversimplifying climatic change, focusing too much on temperature, and excluding possible effects on humans. Yet it remains a powerful “boundary object” in interdisciplinary cooperation, science communication, and the “environing” of history. In this sense, it serves similar functions as other concepts in the field of human–environment interactions, such as “global warming” or “climate resilience.” This article investigates the contested history and the potential uses of the “Little Ice Age” concept. It explores how the concept encourages interdisciplinary consilience, global perspectives, and public debate. In summary, these aspects are connected and contrasted to the use of similar concepts, such as “climate resilience” and “tipping points” in the sphere of climate–society interactions. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Major Historical Eras Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies

• Brenna, Brita (2024). Tilbake til teltet igjen. I Hauan, Marit Anne & Gaupseth, Silje (Red.), Kjønn i isen. Fragmenter til ei ny polarhistorie.. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283051292. s. 119–138. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Colbjørnsen, Terje; Brenna, Brita & Edquist, Samuel (2022). Curating collections in LAMs. I Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin & Larsen, Håkon (Red.), Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective. Routledge. ISSN 9781032033648. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita & Hauan, Marit Anne (2022). Museologi, universitetsmuseer og aktivisme for ettertiden. Ottar. ISSN 0030-6703. 1, s. 27–34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Christensen, Hans Dam; Brenna, Brita & Staff, Björn Magnussen (2022). A concise history of museums in Scandinavia. I Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin & Larsen, Håkon (Red.), Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective. Routledge. ISSN 9781032033648. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Beke, Laura Op de; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Borgesius, Leonoor Zuiderveen; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(1), s. 4–26. doi: 10.1111/hith.12250. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pierroux, Palmyre; Bäckström, Mattias; Brenna, Brita; Gowlland, Geoffrey & Ween, Gro Birgit (2020). Museums as Sites of Participatory Democracy and Design. I Hetland, Per; Pierroux, Palmyre & Esborg, Line (Red.), A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Routledge. ISSN 9780367186715. s. 27–45. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explores how museums and archives make science and cultural heritage relevant to people’s everyday lives, while soliciting their assistance and participation in research and citizen projects. More specifically, the book critically examines how different forms of engagement are constructed, how concepts of democratization are framed and enacted, and how epistemic practices in science and the humanities are transformed through socio-technological infrastructures. Tracking these central themes across disciplines and research from Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA, the book simultaneously considers their relevance for museum and heritage studies.

• Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud (2019). Contact, Copy and model in eighteenth- century Trondheim. I Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud; Christensen, Hans Dam & Hamran, Olav (Red.), Museums as Cultures of Copies. The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity. Routledge. ISSN 9780815364917. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud; Hamran, Olav & Christensen, Hans Dam (2019). Museums as Cultures of Copies. Introduction. I Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud; Christensen, Hans Dam & Hamran, Olav (Red.), Museums as Cultures of Copies. The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity. Routledge. ISSN 9780815364917. doi: 10.4324/9781351106498-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita & Skåden, Kristina (2019). Kompetanse, kritikk og kulturarv. I Lindqvist, Katja (Red.), Kompetens i museisektoren. Politik, praktik och relationen till högre utbildning. Nordic Academic Press. ISSN 9789188909145. s. 255–270. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hauan, Marit Anne & Brenna, Brita (2018). Museumskjønn? I Hauan, Marit Anne & Brenna, Brita (Red.), Kjønn på museum. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050608. s. 9–23. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2018). Museums and museologies in Norway. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. s. 111–118. doi: 10.5617/nm.6403. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Norwegian museum landscape has been refurbished during the last decades. Smaller and topographically scattered units have been merged into large museum conglomerates, small streams of funding have become regular rivers of governmental financial support, and the notion of the societal role has become the landmark for all museums to navigate by. Museological research and education has grown from being a wild flower to become a modest perennial in the museum field. This article will from such a modest museological perspective outline some of the basic features of the changes museums and museology has gone through. The particular perspective from which the author views the field is the MA-programme in museology at the University of Oslo.

• Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud (2018). Skeive utstillinger, rette linjer og fullpakkede perspektiver. I Hauan, Marit Anne & Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud (Red.), Kjønn på museum. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050608. s. 67–83. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Eriksen, Anne; Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud & Mo, Gro Bjørnerud (2017). Theorizing Copies. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 9(1), s. 1–5. doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.17911. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). "Kvalitet og deltakelse i museer". I Eliassen, Knut Ove & Prytz, Øyvind (Red.), Kvalitetsforståelser. Kvalitetsbegrepet i samtidens kunst og kultur.. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788270811793. s. 36–52. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). "Museumsmaterialiteter Ingenting, mange ting og ting som skaper historie". Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. s. 63–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Museumsmaterialiteter : ingenting, mange ting og ting som skaper historie. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 28(1), s. 63–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Samlingens poesi. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. s. 37–49. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2015). "Monterhistorier". Vitark: Acta archaeologica Nidrosiensia. ISSN 1501-6099. 9, s. 138–146. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2014). Nature and texts in glass cases: The vitrine as a tool for textualizing nature. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. ISSN 1894-4647. 2(1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2013). Landskapets tilsynekomst, Tingenes tilsynekomster. Kulturproduksjon, materialitet og estetikk. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997312. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2013). The Frames of Specimens: Glass Cases in Bergen Museum Around 1900. I Thorsen, Liv Emma; Rader, Karen & Dodd, Adam (Red.), Animals on Display. The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History. Penn State University Press. ISSN 9780271060705. s. 37–57. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Gjesvik, Torild & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2013). The King’s Road: Constructing the National Landscape. I Aukrust, Kjerstin (Red.), Assigning Cultural Values. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631632987. s. 209–233. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2012). Natures, Contexts, and Natural History. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 37(4), s. 355–378. doi: 10.1177/0162243912439759. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita & Supphellen, Steinar (2012). Science, sociability, and the tools of Enlightenment - Johan Ernst Gunnerus and the Trondheim milieu. I Jakobsen, Rolv Nøtvik (Red.), Aspects of Johan Ernst Gunnerus' life and work. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788251926881. s. 1–21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2012). Om å innrede med landskaper. I Høyum, Nina Frang & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Red.), Utsikter. Norge sett fra veien 1733-2020. Forlaget Press. ISSN 9788275475532. s. 12–19. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2012). Gjort er gjort. I Maurstad, Anita & Hauan, Marit Anne (Red.), Museologi på norsk. Universitetsmuseenes gjøren. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788251928885. s. 231–237. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2012). Furnishing with landscapes (oversatt fra norsk). I Høyum, Nina Frang & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Red.), Views. Norway Seen from the Road 1733-2020. Forlaget Press. ISSN 9788275475914. s. 12–19. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). "King of the Road: Describing Norwegian Landscapes in the Eighteenth Century". I Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Elvebakk, Beate & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Red.), Routes, roads and landscapes. Ashgate. ISSN 9781409408208. s. 13–26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Vaser, vulkaner og Hamiltons begjær. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. s. 95–106. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Materielle forbindelser: En natursamlende biskop og hans ordning av verden. I Naguib, Saphinaz Amal & Rogan, Bjarne (Red.), Materiell kultur & kulturens materialitet. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270996308. s. 21–40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Clergymen Abiding in the Fields: The Making of the Naturalist Observer in Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Natural History. Science in Context. ISSN 0269-8897. 24(2), s. 143–166. doi: 10.1017/S0269889711000044. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Dilettantisme og disiplin. Det lærde miljø rundt opprettelsen av Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab. I Federhofer, Marie-Theres & Hodacs, Hanna (Red.), Mellom pasjon og profesjonalisme. Dilettantkulturer i skandinavisk kunst og vitenskap. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251925860. s. 33–60. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (2025). Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old turns, new encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350532632. doi: 10.5040/9781350532632. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, this volume is a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of the Anthropocene. The first part introduces readers to the key conceptual and theoretical challenges of Anthropocene debates, before the second part analyses a variety of case studies, to highlight how ethnography and cultural history can make certain processes visible and historically tangible. Key case studies explored by the volume range from sustainability in poultry production, to 18th century mining, to natural history and the works of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Finally, the third section explores 5 critical approaches to Anthropocene discourse, and the challenges it may pose to alternative styles of cultural history. Overall, this volume offers a synthesis of conceptual, historical, and critical approaches, that when combined provide a detailed overview of the latest research surrounding the cultural history of the Anthropocene.

• Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud; Christensen, Hans Dam & Hamran, Olav (2019). Museums as Cultures of Copies. The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity. Routledge. ISBN 9780815364917. 274 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hauan, Marit Anne & Brenna, Brita (2018). Kjønn på museum. Museumsforlaget AS. ISBN 9788283050608. 228 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita; Christensen, Hans Dam & Hamran, Olav (2018). Museums as Cultures of Copies The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity, 1st Edition. Routledge. ISBN 9780815364917. 274 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hauan, Marit Anne & Brenna, Brita Astrid Staxrud (2018). Kjønn på museum. Museumsforlaget AS. ISBN 9788283050608. 228 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Elvebakk, Beate & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2011). Routes, roads and landscapes. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409408208. 248 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Brenna, Brita (2026). Näyttelyt, ilmasto ja antroposeeni. I Koivunen, Leila & Syrjämaa, Taina (Red.), Puutarhanäyttelyistä biennaaleihin. Näyttelyiden moninainen historia. Gaudeamus. ISSN 9789523453906. s. 272–274. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (2025). Introduction: Writing cultural history in the Anthropocene. I Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (Red.), Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old turns, new encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350532632. s. 1–16. doi: 10.5040/9781350532632.0006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, this volume is a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of the Anthropocene. The first part introduces readers to the key conceptual and theoretical challenges of Anthropocene debates, before the second part analyses a variety of case studies, to highlight how ethnography and cultural history can make certain processes visible and historically tangible. Key case studies explored by the volume range from sustainability in poultry production, to 18th century mining, to natural history and the works of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Finally, the third section explores 5 critical approaches to Anthropocene discourse, and the challenges it may pose to alternative styles of cultural history. Overall, this volume offers a synthesis of conceptual, historical, and critical approaches, that when combined provide a detailed overview of the latest research surrounding the cultural history of the Anthropocene.

• Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (2025). Writing cultural history in the Anthropocene. I Bjærke, Marit Ruge; Brenna, Brita; Ekström, Anders & Ødemark, John (Red.), Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old turns, new encounters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350532632. s. 1–16. doi: 10.5040/9781350532632.0006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, this volume is a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of the Anthropocene. The first part introduces readers to the key conceptual and theoretical challenges of Anthropocene debates, before the second part analyses a variety of case studies, to highlight how ethnography and cultural history can make certain processes visible and historically tangible. Key case studies explored by the volume range from sustainability in poultry production, to 18th century mining, to natural history and the works of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Finally, the third section explores 5 critical approaches to Anthropocene discourse, and the challenges it may pose to alternative styles of cultural history. Overall, this volume offers a synthesis of conceptual, historical, and critical approaches, that when combined provide a detailed overview of the latest research surrounding the cultural history of the Anthropocene.

• Esborg, Line; Hamran, Olav; Kaijser, Lars & Brenna, Brita (2025). Nature Engagements, Museums and Heritagization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Panelpresentation and discussions at conference

• Ekman, Mattias; Sauge, Birgitte; Esborg, Line; Brenna, Brita; Ahrens, Sven & Dalbu, Jeanne [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). Karriereutvikling i museene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Velkommen til den avsluttende panelsamtalen om karriereutvikling i museene. Samtalen arrangeres som en leveranse i prosjektet Varig kompetanseløft, som utføres av Norsk industriarbeidermuseum, Falstadsenteret, Aust-Agder Museum og Arkiv, Stiftelsen Norsk Folkemuseum og Østfoldmuseene i samarbeid med de museologiske forskningsmiljøene ved UiO, NTNU og UiS i perioden 2024–2027.

• Brenna, Brita (2025). Naturecultures of heritage. Bear Island entanglements. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2025). «Naturkulturmuseum? Museenes arv i antropocen». Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik & Brenna, Brita (2025). Steder - naturhistorie for framtida. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Utstilling laget av studenter på master i Museologi og kulturarvsstudier på Kulturhistorisk museum

• Brenna, Brita (2024). Museenes endrede samfunnrolle med eksempler fra Naturhistoriske museer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2024). Tilbake til teltet igjen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2024). Tilbake til teltet igjen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2023). Nature-culture entanglement in expedition litterature: Storytelling from the Arctic around 1900. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Brenna, Brita (2019). Naturecultures of Heritage. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Kvifor verne natur og kultur? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). On the newness of the world and the rythms of matter. Reading Erik Pontoppidan’s A Treatise of the Novely of Worlds from 1757. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Arv i naturkultur- perspektiv: Kvar vart det av naturen i dei kulturhistoriske musea? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Feltarbeid på Svalbard. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Topografenes feltarbeid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Svalbard: On-the-Edge-of-Time, Outside-of-Time, or Simply Thin Time. Paper In sync International Colloquium 27-29 mai. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). The naturecultures of fieldwork in the Arctic: An exploration of history, contemporaneity and heritage approx. 1910 – 2019. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Doing keeping and finding time in Arctic fieldwork. Paper SIEF conference Santiago de Compostella, April 15. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2019). Høytidsforedraget 2017: Vitenskap i Gunnerus' tid. I Thomsen, Tina Skjærvik; Overskaug, Kristian & Røskaft, Merete (Red.), Årbok 2018 fra Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab. ISSN 9788293175506. s. 67–74. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2018). An imagined community. Twenty-five years of Nordic Museology. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. s. 1–4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2018). Preface. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. s. 1–2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Humaniora: En museumshistorie. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Materialiteten som møtested. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Kommentar: Hvordan kan kunnskapen brukes? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Two fishes and a society in a box. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Hva gjør gjenstandene i og med historien? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Montre, museologi og materialitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Still Life in the Collection. How to study circulation – and inertia – in Norwegian 18th century collections? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Vores museum. Åpning Ragnarock. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Glass cases. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Model-work in the Eighteenth Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). I en sofa på arkivet. Samer på utstilling. Samtale. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). «Framtidas museum». Sett i lys av historien: hvordan kan museene være relevante for dagens og fremtidens publikum? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Er det immaterielle den egentlige kulturarven? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Museum, kvalitet og deltakelse. Presentasjon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2016). Museum og kvalitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2015). Forord. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita Staxrud (2015). Vitrine history. How the glass case was made to matter in museums around 1900. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2014). Forord. I Olsrud, Janne Werner & Snekkenes, Christine (Red.), Museologer på museum - Fra undring til kunnskap. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997862. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2014). Forord. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita & Axelsson, Bodil (2014). Forord. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita; Tøndborg, Britta & Silven, Eva (2013). Forord. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. s. 1–2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita & Brandt, Thomas (2011). Vitenskapens nytte i 250 år. Fra Opplysningstidens viten til ingeniørvitenskap i Trondheim. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). King of the Road. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). The World Classified. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Monter, museumsgjenstand og museal motstand. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Cartographies of self and other: Classifying materiality and culture at the International Exhibitions, World's Fairs and Expositions Universelles. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). En kunnskapsby bygges. Anmeldelse av Turbulens og tankekraft av Thomas Brandt og Ola Nordal. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Om museologi. [Radio]. SENT: Teknisk museum 23. november/Ekko:Viten . Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita (2011). Performing bodies through glass cases. Moving exhibitionary techniques between natural and cultural museum exhibits around 1900. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Elvebakk, Beate & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2011). "Routes, Roads and Landscapes". I Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Elvebakk, Beate & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Red.), Routes, roads and landscapes. Ashgate. ISSN 9781409408208. s. 1–9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brenna, Brita; Lillehammer, Grete & Johnsen, Lise (2022). «Det monterløse museum»: En etnografisk undersøkelse av et arkeologisk universitetsmuseum som møtested for arkeologiske praksiser og museal gjøren. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISSN 9788284390727. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis examines processes at play in the knowledge production in the interdisciplinary academic community, as well as the dissemination directed towards the general public, at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger. It does so by examining what takes place during meetings at the museum’s outdoor knowledge arenas. My study is located at the intersection between archaeology, museology, and cultural studies/culture history. I highlight recent perspectives on audience, knowledge, and place by the use of analytical terms such as knowledge production, meeting place, involvement, memory, narration, visitors and site museum. The study has been conducted using qualitative methods such as participatory observations, interviews, and visual analyses. In the analysis, encounters between actors in connection with the university museum’s archaeological excavations are presented through my own confessional and impressionist tales, which are based on observations, conversations, and interviews with museum staff. I have conducted an ethnographic analysis of what occurs in knowledge production in a museal context. My study has uncovered a distinct museo-archeological form of knowledge production. The unique characteristic of the actors’ archaeological fieldwork is the frequency and diversity of interpretations connected to place, time, and experiences. The actors retain these interpretations from the field in the form of stories or memories from the work with archaeological structures, or through a selection of significant site elements. The museum experts have multidisciplinary meetings through walking tours of the sites. External actors contribute local knowledge to the project and provide a new understanding of specific places in the local community. The knowledge is transferred through active dissemination on the part of the archaeologists and creates the basis for collaboration and the development of new methods. Imaginary time travel occurs in encounters between archaeologists and the public. The public is directly or indirectly included in the museum’s knowledge production, as a part of the guided tour narrative, through activities or improvised forms of presentation. The archaeological excavations at the university museum are a part of the museum’s museal processes and are temporary places for scientific knowledge production. The sites are converted into meeting places for the production, transfer, and development of knowledge, in which the actors’ interaction is place-specific. External actors are members of the public who transfer, explore and take part in producing knowledge about the places being excavated by the university museum. Co-operation with the museum’s professional staff is a type of involvement that changes the local population or museum visitors into amateur archaeologists or fellow museo-archaeological researchers. In museal outdoor spaces, members of the public become discoverers, through becoming involved in an ongoing museo-archaeological knowledge production process. As such, imaginary time travel is not limited to activities in permanent museum institutions but is also tied to guided tour narratives and excavation activities, as parts of a temporary form of museum dissemination. The guests are presented with and involved in interpretations that are accessible in this museum without walls. The university museum’s excavation sites are converted into temporary site museums. This opens up for the public’s own experience and understanding of the past, at the same time as such encounters involve the public in knowledge co-production. Members of the public become co-creators or co-producers in a co-production museum. The university museum’s excavation sites enable another way of involving the public in a ‘museum without cabinets’ than that which can be offered through its permanent exhibitions. A museum space without cabinets is formed. The museum gains an outdoor knowledge arena that functions as a post-museum (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000), offering openness, co-operation, knowledge sharing and the actualisation of places and stories.

• Jørgensen, Guro; Brenna, Brita; Eliassen, Knut Ove & Næss, Robert (2021). SAKER SOM BEVEGER: NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet: Et universitetsmuseum som kategori, arbeidssted og formidlingssted. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. ISSN 9788232655199. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Summary Screw caps and DNA: Science on display in the Norwegian University museums The NTNU University Museum in Trondheim is a place of diversity. In an exhibition of marine biology there is an old giant octopus made of fiberglass with screw caps instead of suckers. It represents both science and nature, but is neither scientific nor natural, so how can it belong there? Only six of Norway’s several hundred museums are categorized as university museums, and they are situated in Trondheim, Tromsø, Bergen, Stavanger and Oslo. These are not history-of-science-museums, but modern research institutions organized and governed as university faculties, where topics of scientific research vary from Viking Age burial rites to DNA sequencing. However large and complex they may be, university museums have been chiefly overlooked as research objects in their own right. The doctoral thesis Matters of Concern. NTNU University Museum: A museum as political category, workplace and a place for knowledge dissemination is an investigation into their distinctive features as museum category, and of the knowledge they produce and disseminate. Through an analysis of historical sources, political white papers, and interviews, the category of Norwegian University Museums is explored in general. The case of one museum especially, the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim, is studied in more depth, serving as an example of how one museum, with scientific traditions dating back to the Enlightenment, has continuously negotiated its position, its collections, and its work practices in relation to shifting scientific views and social cultures for over 200 years. Although the Norwegian university museums represent a seemingly established cultural and political category today, their institutional origins are varied. Most of the museums were founded as private, universal museums during the 19th century, while the universities they now belong to were established at different times between 1811 and 2004. The objective of the dissertation is not to create an orderly, chronological narrative of historical events, but rather to describe and analyze both the university museum as category and the NTNU University Museum as hybrid spaces resulting from negotiations between various actors, in different fields and in relation to a variety of ideologies and social networks, across time and space. Knowledge dissemination is one of the dissertation’s central themes. As a museum cannot be separated from its social surroundings, the dissemination of knowledge is a social practice that consists of much more than presenting research results in accessible language. It is a web of complex practices related to the communications field, including phenomena that are seemingly incompatible with science: the mass media, marketing, the cultural industry, alternative medicine, politics – and giant octopuses with suckers made of screw caps.

• Fonneland, Trude; Brenna, Brita; Glørstad, Håkon; Andersen, Ketil Gjølme; Dam, Hans Christiansen & Larsson, Helene Pousette [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Vilje til forskning - museumsforskning i Norge i det 21. århundre. Rapporten er levert av utvalg for museum og forskning. Kulturdepartementet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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