Museums as arenas for the production and circulation of knowledge on Sámi cultures, societies and identities

Nordic museology 2019 • 3, s.5-7 which the Sámi build their identities and voice their demands.We are particularly interested in exploring how different discourses, and institutional and societal contexts, in this case museums or exhibition arenas, have had impact on and continue to impact the production of knowledge on Sámi cultures, histories and identities across time.The contributors are museologists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and cultural studies scholars with experience from working in and writing about museums and their practices.They are all from countries with native Sámi populations (Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia), and they have specialised in various fields of study and issues relating to the Sámi.The contributors are part of the Nordic research project "Societal Dimensions of Sámi Research", financed by the Norwegian Research Council. 2 This publication has ten articles organised according to a chronological historical timeline.In her article about a double set of Sámi artefacts collected in Norway in the 1850s, Silje Opdahl Mathisen offers a critical view on the establishment of a Sámi collection at the Museum of Ethnography in Oslo, as well as notions of ethnicity and race.While one set remained in Oslo the other was to be exhibited at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London

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