At 19 years old, in 1947, Hildemor Svenkerud started her own dance school. It became a #Bergen institution, teaching generations of bergensers all kinds of movements, both bold and otherwise. This is from the 1956 spring ball, Hildemor on the right looking over her students.

50 years after it started, Svenkerud sold it on to Jane Vestøl who still runs Hildemor's Dansesenter, keeping the legacy alive.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-456-212.html
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Det er blitt vår men snøkanonene lengter allerede til neste vinter, 24. april 2026 #spring2026 #vår2026 #april2026 #vår #spring #snøkanon #snowCannon #snowGun #liabakken #lia_skisenter #liaskogen #gjelleråsmarka #groruddalen #stovner #oslo #norge #norway #norskpix #alpintut #hsil

Fortsatt litt snøstatus øverst i Liabakken, 24. april 2026 #spring2026 #vår2026 #april2026 #vår #spring #spring #skiing #alpineskiing #liabakken #lia_skisenter #liaskogen #gjelleråsmarka #groruddalen #stovner #oslo #norge #norway #norskpix #alpintut #hsil

Vår i sherpatrappa i Liabratten, 24. april 2026 #april2026 #vår2026 #spring2026 #vår #spring #liabratten #groruddalen #stovner #vestli #gjelleråsen #gjelleråsmarka #akershus #oslo #norge #norskpix

Vår på gapahuken Gubbero, 24. april 2026 #spring2026 #vår2026 #april2026 #vår #spring #gapahuk #gubbero #groruddalen #stovner #vestli #gjelleråsen #gjelleråsmarka #akershus #oslo #norge #norway #norskpix

Vår på salamanderdammen, lille Morttjern, 24. april 2026. Takket være en forsker som var på besøk fikk jeg sett mine første salamandre. En småsalamander-hunn og en storsalamander av usikker legning. Men jeg klarte ikke å ta bilder nede i vannet med mobilkameraet. Plastsakene med blå lokk er salamanderfeller (men salamandrene blir sluppet tilbake etter en liten undersøkelse) #vår2026 #spring2026 #april2026 #vår #spring #salamander #salamanderdammen #sti #gangvei #gjelleråsen #lille_morttjern #gjelleråsmarka #nittedal #akershus #norge #norway #norskpix

The airplane Valkyrien, a Sikorsky S-43 with registration LN-DAG, at the(seaplane harbor/airport at Gressholmen

The aircraft was purchased by Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) in 1936 and was intended to be used on a new Atlantic route to be flown in cooperation with Pan American World Airways from July 1 of that year. The collaboration with PanAm did not materialize, and the aircraft was instead deployed between Gressholmen and Bromma Airport in Stockholm in the summer of 1937 and between Oslo and Copenhagen.

Year: 1936

Photo: Anders Beer Wilse / Norsk Folkemuseum (CC pdm)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210111920029/prot-flyvemaskin-valkyrien

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%ABValkyrien%C2%BB_(fly)

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The University Museum gardens in 1930.

Still quite similar to what it looks like today, although reality has added colours the last 100 years. A small but most welcome upgrade.

The University Museum Gardens (Muséhagen) is a botanical garden on Nygårdshøyden in #Bergen, connected to the natural history department of the University Museum. Established late 1800s according to a plan drawn up by Jørgen Brunchorst, it was conceived from the start as an outdoor extension of the natural history collections housed inside.

The site itself had an unusual preparation: in the 1890s, private citizens were permitted to dump surplus soil there to fill up the plot. From its earliest years, the garden accumulated specimens with remarkable stories. The first rhododendron planted there came from the personal garden of Jørgen Brunchorst's own mother, and two yew trees near the museum's north wing were brought by horse and cart in 1929 from a city-center garden.

Over 120 years of development, the garden has grown to contain around 3,000 different plant species, many collected as seeds from wild plants across Norway and the wider world. Muséhagen served as the University of Bergen's main botanical garden until 1996.

Photo via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-10827-004.html
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What are these scientists at Christian Michelsen Institute in the 70s doing?

Only wrong answers.

Photo by Finn Tollefsen, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ft-02829-004.html
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Søndre Kleivesmauet, a classical steep #Bergen alley, in the 70s. Including a pair of classic Bergen kids in classic Bergen weather.

Photo by Finn Tollefsen, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ft-02661d-008.html
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