Related to Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
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In her article 'The Frames of Specimens', Brita Brenna notes that 'The Naturhistorisches Museum in Hamburg had knowledge and expertise that were needed in Bergen [Museum, at the end of the nineteenth century]... [Curator of the Bergen Museum Fridtjof] Nansen gave detailed accounts of his meetings with dealers in natural objects, and of what specimens he acquired for the museum. He was most enthusiastic about the exchange deal he set up with the director in Hamburg. From Bergen they could send off a whale skeleton; from Hamburg they would receive a pickled gorilla, a pickled chimpanzee, and a manatee skeleton. And still they would have credit for half the whale's worth.' (42-43)