by Susan | Sep 28, 2026 | Monuments
In 2005, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, took initiative for the worldwide organization Mayors For Peace, and Narvik was one of the municipalities that joined. Akiba donated a stone from the reputed zero-point field Hiroshima as a gift to Narvik. The stone...
by Susan | Apr 20, 2026 | Monuments
On the bit of the Norwegian Arctic that lops over Sweden and Finland, American artist Louise Bourgeois and Swiss architect Peter Zumthor collaborated on a monument to the ninety-one persons burned there as witches in the seventeenth century. It was dedicated by Queen...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2024 | Monuments
This six-meter-long aluminum bench is shaped like a gentle arch so that those sitting on it are brought closer together. It is designed as a semicircle, so that those who sit on it slide closer together. It is almost impossible to sit on opposite sides of the bench....
by Susan | Nov 11, 2019 | Monuments
In 1910 the Nordic Peace Congress in Stockholm decided that a peace monument should be raised on the border between Sweden and Norway to celebrate 100 year of peace between the countries. The building of the peace monument was finished in 1914. The design reflects a...
by Susan | Dec 26, 2016 | Monuments
The “Children of the World” sculpture was started in 1988 when author Simon Flem Devold randomly selected seven children from seven countries – Tanzania, Brazil, USA, Japan, Thailand, Italy and Russia — to visit the North Cape to dream of “Peace on Earth“.” ...
