Destruction can happen almost without noticing. An essay in memory of John Aage Gjestrum

A thin golden web connects me to Røros and to its industrial heritage. Knots here and there, sometimes unconscious – bits and pieces, ancestors’ histories, fragments of knowledge about darkness and light, about creation and destruction. Part-time miners, part-time farmers, fireworks experts building caves for the sake of experimentation. Sometimes conscious – John Aage ́s curiosity about the Portuguese museum scene and his deep interest in Røros as a case study in the understanding of Norwegian museum practice and constructing a theoretical body of interpretations which might bring about a shift of paradigms in museum work.