The Arctic Museum in Brandal, Norway
Posted
10/6/2011
The Arctic Museum in Brandal, Norway, was
founded in 1981 to preserve the traditions in Western Norway of
sealing and other activities in the Arctic and Antarctic zones. The
museum includes the arctic vessel 'Aarvak,' the oldest preserved
sealing vessel of its kind. The town of Brandal was the center of
the sealing trade, which reached its peak at the end of the 1920s,
when at that time, 75 sealing vessels from Western Norway
participated. For the project, RHEINZINK America Inc., Woburn,
Mass., supplied 5,382 square feet of Pre-weathered Blue-Gray angled
standing-seam metal panels for the roof, in addition to 10,764
square feet of Pre-weathered Blue-Gray angled standing-seam metal
panels for the façade. Both were used in a custom-made panel
system. Rambøll Norge AS, Alesund, Norway, was the design/
supervising architect, and Blikkenslagermester Even Helgesen AS,
Alesund, was the roofing and sheet metal contractor.
RHEINZINK America Inc.,
www.rheinzink.com