The exhibition The Arctic—While the Ice is Melting opened at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm in 2019 and is still on show, describing life in a changing climate and allowing its visitors to encounter several voices and perspectives of the past, present, and future. The three-year preparation for the exhibition involved collaboration between the Nordic Museum and Stockholm University. The museum was able to present transnational narratives with the help of collections spanning larger areas than just the nation-states of the Arctic region, by discussing the use of natural resources, such as driftwood, but also imported goods brought to different places in the Arctic as a result of colonial processes. The exhibition raises awareness of climate change by showing historical daily life in the Arctic in dialogue with contemporary stories from climate scientists and people living in the Arctic today. The subject of climate change transcends individual countries and groups and is showcased with the help of museum collections and contemporary stories in a multitemporal and multidisciplinary weaving of differing knowledges and voices.

I detta bokkapitel förs läsaren med på en vandring genom några av Södra Djurgårdens många portar och portaler. I sällskap med tidigare intendenten vid Nordiska museet, Cecilia Hammarlund-Larsson, som är medförfattare till artikeln utforskas rituella och symboliska aspekter av bland andra ingångarna till Nordiska museet, BIologiska museet, Skansens många ingångar, porten till Galärvarvet, portaler på Gröna Lund och kronprinsessan Victorias och Prins Daniels portalkrönta minnesstig. Med exempel på frambrytande, kvardröjande och dominanta spår avtäcks ett heterotopiskt landskap, där man kan röra sig mellan olika tider och rum. Som i sf eller fantasy gör portalerna något med dem som träder in, etablerar stämningar, förmedlar relationer, upprättar, inkluderar och - ibland - stänger ute. 

Arktiska spår: Natur och kultur är en mångvetenskaplig antologi om förändringsprocesser i världens mest nordliga delar. Samtidigt är det en rikt illustrerad, närmast bilddriven, publikation som ger fördjupning kring en utställning: Arktis - medan isen smälter (Nordiska museet 2019-20). I boken medverkar över fyrtio skribenter från olika fakulteter och även konstnärer och andra experter. De längre artiklarna har genomgått granskning av extern läsare, i samverkan med Journal of Northern Studies. 

Huvudteman som blir belysta ur olika ämnens perspektiv är Arktis som tid och rum, Isens dynamik (ur maringeologiskt djuptidsperspektiv) och historisk antropologi samt Arktis som resurslandskap. Nordiska museets och andra museers samlingar dras in i den mångvetenskapliga undersökningen av spår och rörelser, i ett antal korta essäer om föremål och arkivalier. 

Arctic Traces and Tracks: Nature and culture in motion, is a multidisciplinary anthology about processes of changein the most northern parts of the world. At the same time it is a richly illustrated, almost image-driven, publication that connects to the exhibition: The Arctic - while the ice is melting (Nordic Museum 2019-20). The book features over forty writers from various faculties and also artists and other experts. The longer articles have been peer reviewed, in collaboration with the Journal of Northern Studies.

The main themes that will be illuminated from different perspectives are the Arctic as time and space, the social and geological dynamics of the Ice and the Arctic as a resource landscape, to external and internal agents. The collections of the Nordic Museum and other museums are included in the multidisciplinary study of "Arctic traces and tracks" through a number of short essays on objects and archives. Two visual essays are also included. 

Nowhere on earth is global warming happening as fast today as in the northernmost region. In many cases the situation is acute both for humans and other animals. But it is not only biotopes, but also long-since intertwined systems of nature and culture that are in accelerating processes of change. What was once portrayed as almost invincible is now associated with vulnerability. The situation is one of urgency for the four million people living in Arctic areas, but it may ultimately affect many more. The northernmost area on earth once again reminds us that humanity too has a limit. This introduction starts with a fieldwork note from contemporary Greenland, where the contested colonial heritage also examplifies the entanglement and friction of global interests and environmental change. IN this broadly multidisciplinary collection of scholarly articles the Arctic will be discussed both as nature and as culture, and in ways that stress change and complexity. Unexpected alliances and tentacular methods are crucial in our challenging times, according to enviromentalist Donna Haraway. The contributions of this journal issue also share the context of support for a co-curated exhibition at the Nordiska museet on "The Arctic - While the Ice is Melting" (from 2019)  

This special section of Museum Worlds explores the entire process of repatriation as a set of rituals enacted by claimants and museum staff: a set of highlighted performances enacting multiple sets of cosmological beliefs, symbolic systems, and political structures. Some of the rituals of repatriation occur within the space of Indigenous ceremonies; others happen within the museum spaces of collections storage and the boardroom; others, such as handover ceremonies, are coproduced and culturally hybrid. From the often obsessive bureaucracy associated with repatriation claims to the affective moment of handover, repatriation articulates a moral landscape where memory, responsibility, guilt, identity, sanctity, place, and ownership are given a ritual form. Theory about ritual is used here to situate the articles in this section, which together form a cross-cultural examination of ritual meaning and form across repatriation processes.