The Norwegian Petroleum Museum has been awarded the DASA Award for 2014. The Award was presented during a dinner at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow Saturday 26th of April. DASA is an abbreviation for “Deutsche Arbeitsschutzausstellung” – and the price is awarded for museums that presents exhibitions on work life and social history. The jury especially mentioned the exhibition on the North Sea divers.

The diploma for the DASA Award

From the remarks of the jury: “In the context of the DASA Award the museum has a vivid presentation of the work and living conditions of the people working on various oil platforms. An animated film takes visitors on a tour underwater in the footsteps – or fins – of the divers. As pioneers of the oil industry, the North Sea divers risked their lives in a very dangerous workplace. Some experienced permanent injuries, a subject that has been suppressed for some time, and Norwegian divers were amongst the first to organize themselves in a trade union in order to improve health and safely and labour conditions. This aspect of social history makes the Norwegian Petroleum Museum a worthy winner of this year’s DASA Award.”

Jury´s reasoning:  PRESS RELEASE 26 April 2014 2014 MICHELETTI AWARD

The photo shows museum director Finn E. Krogh and the director of DASA, Gregor Isenbort. Photo: CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection/Enzo di Cosmo