Museums in a Climate of Change: Chatter Marks EP 71 How climate change is affecting the traditional Sámi way of life with Anne May Olii of the Sámi Museum in Norway

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Anne May Olii is the Director of the largest Sámi museum in Norway, RiddoDuottarMuseat. The museum manages photographs, art and information on Sámi cultural heritage. Anne May says that the museum is thinking 100, 200 years into the future, about how what they’re documenting today will affect and inform Sámi people in the future. For example, the vitality of reindeer husbandry — something the Sámi people have been practicing for generations — is a concern. On top of climate change causing diminishing grazing areas, the Norwegian government is taking land from the Sámi people by putting things like windmills and power lines on their land. Anne May says that the museum is focused on documenting these changes, to keep a record of the past and the present in order to inform the future. That there’s a strong possibility that northern countries will be looked at for guidance in a future affected by climate change. She has a vested interest in Norway. In addition to her work at the museum, she’s a farmer, her husband is a reindeer herder, her kids are farmers and reindeer herders, and she’s of Sámi heritage. In this Chatter Marks series, Cody and co-host Dr. Sandro Debono talk to museum directors and knowledge holders about what museums around the world are doing to adapt and react to climate change. Dr. Debono is a museum thinker from the Mediterranean island of Malta. He works with museums to help them strategize around possible futures.

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0:00.0	Awesome museum. We make sure that we include our tradition, our society needs in a way.
0:28.6	So if you see that in my mind the museum have a really important role to make sure that the generation in the futures have the same traditional knowledge that we have today,
0:37.0	but also have the knowledge about the change that is going on.
0:45.0	I think that the museum role is
0:55.0	is the key role in connecting past and future in a way.
1:00.0	Because we are losing something, but hopefully we are also winning something.
1:03.0	That was Anamai Oli.
1:05.0	She's the director of the largest Sammy museum in Norway,
1:10.0	Rheduat Museat.
1:12.0	The museum manages photographs, art, and information on Sammy Cultural Heritage.
1:20.0	Onamie says that the museum is thinking 100, 200 years into the future, about how what they're
1:26.6	documenting today will affect and inform Sammy people in the future.
1:36.7	For example, the vitality of reindeer husbandry, something the Sammy people have been practicing for generations
1:39.8	is a concern.
1:41.7	On top of climate change causing diminishing grazing areas, the Norwegian
1:46.1	government is taking land from Sammy people by putting things like windmills and power lines
1:51.8	on their land.
1:58.0	Onamie says that the museum is focused on documenting these changes to keep a record of the past and the present in order to inform the future, that there's a strong possibility
2:06.2	that northern countries will be looked at for guidance in a future affected by climate change.
2:12.3	She has a vested interest in Norway. In addition to her work at the
2:16.4	museum, she's a farmer. Her husband is a reindeer herder, her kids are farmers and reindeer herders and she's of Sammy heritage.
2:27.0	So here she is, Anna Maya Lee.
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