Staff
Administration and maintenance
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Jan S. Dølør
DirectorJan is the director of the museum, and has the overall professional and administrative responsibility. He works with strategy, planning, financial management and quality assurance.
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Max Saltykov
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Kristin I. Nilsen Harila
HR ManagerKristin works with administrative tasks.
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Jan Roger Eriksen
Head of operations/exhibition and operating technicianJan Roger is responsible for operations and maintenance of the museum perimeters: building, exhibitions, park and cultural heritage areas.
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Meena Klaybut
Cleaning assistantMeena is responsible for the daily cleaning of the museum and the exhibitions.
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Prathueang (Tick) Padthesang
Cleaning assistantTic is responsible for the daily cleaning of the museum and the exhibitions.
Section for Marketing and customer services
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Anita Tapio
Section manager of Marketing and Customer ServicesAnita is head of marketing and is responsible for the tourism part of the enterprise, alongside the overall operation of reception, shop and café. She is also responsible for hiring summer personnel and weekend staff.
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Linn Johansen
Staff member of café, shop and receptionLinn works with the daily operations of reception, museum shop and café. She focuses on events, but is also involved with most of the tasks that the marketing and customer services covers.
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Else Poulsen
Museum hostElse’s main task is to take good care of the museum's guests, as well as the daily operation of reception, museum shop and café. She also manages parts of the section's economic assignments.
Section for Rock Art and World Heritage
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Martin Kristoffer Hykkerud
Section Manager/Site ManagerMartin is section manager as well as project manager for the Kåfjord project, concerning documentation of long-term weathering processes. Martin is also Site Manager for the world heritage The Rock Art of Alta.
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Karin Tansem
Ph.D fellowKarin is currently underway with her ph.D, entitled "Rock Art, geology and aesthetics" at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, University of Tromsø. She also works with rock art documentation.
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Heidi Johansen
ConservatorHeidi has the recent years been responsible for different development- and informationprojects, like audioguides, guidebooks, exhibitions and information signs, and she is also working with the new rock art exhibition.
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Mari Sofie Strifeldt Arntzen
ConservatorMari works with public services and rock art managment.
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Rune Normann
ConservatorRune mainly works with documentation of the world heritage, museum exhibitons, public services as well as with the rock art archive. He is also the leader of the comitee for temporary exhibitions and is an allround great guy!
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Gerd Johanne Valen
Site Manager Struves Geodetic ArcGerd is the site manager of the Struve Geodetic Arc. She is an archeologist with supplementary studies in biology and history. She has extended experience with project management and preservation. She also works with exhibition production.
Section for Contemporary and Historical Times
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Maria Øien
Section ManagerMaria is a social anthropologist and Section Manager for Contemporary and Historical Times. Her responsibilities are personnel, research supervision and facilitation, dissemination, exhibition production, lecture series, adequate preservation of our collection and culture-historical building, and protection of cultural heritage.
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Eva Dagny Johansen
Ph.D. fellowEva is a social anthropologist and a Ph.D. fellow in museology at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. She focuses on the local aspect of the return of cultural heritage. The title of her research project is ”Sami cultural heritage is returning home – what happens locally?”
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Hans Christian Søborg
CuratorHans Christian has a masters in archeology with supplementary subjects in geology and history, in addition to complementary studies in museology. Hans Christian works with the recent history of Alta (such as Kven culture and the history of northern lights research), as well as dissemination. He produces exhibitions concerning the natural history of Alta and the exploitation of rock in prehistoric time for our new permanent exhibitions.
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Merete Ødegaard
CuratorMerete is a social anthropologist and works with the recent history of Alta. Her area of expertise is the Alta river and salmon/sport fishing. She also has tasks linked to exhibition work and preservation of collections. Up until autumn of 2018 she is working with an external book project on the quartzite operations in Alta.
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Ann-Silje Ingebrigtsen
CuratorAnn-Silje is an art historian in charge of the registration of our museum collection. She also works with preservation of collections and exhibitions. She can also disseminate in Norwegian sign language.
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Lena Karlstrøm
CuratorLena is a historian and works with the preservation of collections, as well as dissemination and exhibition production. She is responsible for the museum's collections of objects, photos, archives and historic buildings. Any question regarding the museum’s collection may be directed to her.
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Kristin Nicolaysen
Museum LecturerKristin is a visual anthropologist and is co-producing our new permanent exhibition. She also works with dissemination of various projects concerning Den kulturelle skolesekken (DKS).
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Daria Polishchuk
CuratorDaria has a background in visual anthropology and cultural project management. She is working on renewing our permanent exhibitions, educational offer for schools about the Alta conflict (DKS Altasaken) and various projects.