Josephine Munch Rasmussen is a researcher with a background in history, law, and cultural heritage research. She began her studies at the University of Bergen and earned a PhD in archaeology at the University of Oslo in 2014. Her research interests include the history of institutions and collections, and she has extensive experience in research communication on topics such as ownership, repatriation, and diplomacy related to cultural heritage, as well as the role of cultural heritage in contexts of war and conflict.

In addition to research and teaching in the higher education institutions, Josephine has worked at museums and in the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway. From 2018 to 2022, she carried out her postdoctoral project at University of Agder in Kristiansand, focusing on research ethics in relation to stolen, manipulated, and forged manuscripts. From 2022 to 2025, she was a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research in Oslo. Here, she led the European research project DECOPE, which studied the effects of civil society and cultural institutions’ mobilization in the aftermath of Russian’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Since 2025, she has been the Head of R&D at Arkivet Peace and Human Rights Center, with responsibility for research and knowledge production, as well as the development of Arkivet Memorial site.

Josephine is interested in how cultural heritage is used as a goal, tool, and source of resilience and resistance in war and conflict, and how the experiences and expertise of marginalized groups and minorities are used in preparedness work as well as post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation

Ingeborg Hauge is a museum educator and cultural studies scholar with an academic background from England, Spain, and Norway. She studied Museum Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Bergen, focusing on museums, power, participation, and diversity. She has also worked for several years as a lower secondary school teacher in Bergen and Kristiansand.

Ingeborg joined ARKIVET as a museum educator in 2022. She is responsible for a new exhibition on childhood memories of war, set to open in the winter of 2025. She is also involved in teaching.

Georg Kristoffer Berg Fjalsett is a trained historian with degrees in religion and philosophy. At ARKIVET, he works with teaching specifically aimed at the university and college sector, in addition to research. In December 2021, he was appointed to the position of PhD fellow in democracy learning and school culture. In his Ph.D. project he studies teachers reflections on historical consciousness and perceived democratic agency.

Lena Sannæs holds a Master’s degree in History from the University of Agder. As a collections manager, she is responsible for ensuring that both the archives and museum collections at ARKIVET are maintained and catalogued according to professional standards. Acquisition procedures, storage, and accessibility are all important aspects of the collections manager’s work.

Before joining ARKIVET in 2019, she worked for several years with historical archives in other archival institutions. 

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Solveig Hessaa-Szwinto has been a part of ARKIVET since 2018, focusing her work on topics such as racism, forced migration, war and gender. She is the founder and project leader of the personal storytelling initiative BE HEARD!. At present, she is the main responsible for temporary exhibitions. Solveig holds a Master of Science in International Development from the University of Amsterdam.