Swedish Team’s fieldwork in the region around the Barsebäck nuclear power plant

March 8, 2023

In early February, Karin Edberg and Anna Storm spent a fieldwork week in the region around the Barsebäck nuclear power plant.

The primary task was to go through the separate archive of the so called Local Safety Commission, a body of local political representatives in direct dialogue with the nuclear power plant. The archive, dating back to the early 80s, is currently located within the municipal archive but is shortly to be screened and transferred elsewhere.

In addition, a couple of interviews with former secretaries of the Local Safety Commission were carried out. Finally, a preparatory visit was made, together with the NuSPACES’ colleagues from Malmö Museums, Yvonne Magnusson and Birgitta Kelly, to a nearby school where the team will later on organize a drawing workshop focusing on generational aspects of nuclear heritage.

Previous activities

June 29, 2023

Fieldwork in Visaginas

Linara Dovydaitytė and Oksana Denisenko interviewed two residents of Visaginas on June 27th, 2023. It is a part of an ongoing study on the memorialisation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and attitudes towards nuclear cultural heritage.

June 17, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė was invited to speake at the public event “Nuclear Temporalities”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė was invited to speake at the public event “Nuclear Temporalities,” organised in relation to the closing of the art exhibition “If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible: Infrastructures and Solidarities beyond the post-Soviet Condition,” Lithuanian National Art Gallery, 17 June 2023.

June 14, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė chaired a panel session “Challenges and Contentions”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė chaired a panel session “Challenges and Contentions,” an international conference Cold War Museology: How Museums Shape our Understanding of the Cold War, organised by the University of Stirling and the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, 12-14 June 2023.