New department director

28 February 2025

Tore Bugge Pedersen, dept. Director Museum Nord (starting summer 2025)

It is with great pleasure that we can inform you that Tore Bugge Pedersen has accepted the position as the new department director at Museum Nord.

Museum Nord is organized into 4 departments: department Vesterålen, department Ofoten, department Vågan and department Vest-Lofoten. The West Lofoten department includes the Norwegian Fishing Village Museum, Sørvågen Radio – a telecommunications museum, Fygle Museum, Skaftnes farm and Lofotr Viking Museum.

Tore Bugge Pedersen will take up the position as department director of Museum Nord dept. Vest-Lofoten. He currently works as a project coordinator at the Culture Department, Section for Cultural Heritage in Møre og Romsdal County Municipality. He has previously worked at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø, the Museum of Coastal Heritage in Trøndelag, the Nordmøre Museum Foundation, Tromsø University Museum and Varanger Museum. He has a master’s degree in art history/cultural heritage management from UiT in addition to a number of other relevant courses.

He will take up the position at Museum Nord during the summer of 2025. Tore currently lives in Molde and moves to Lofoten with his wife and children.

Central role in the management team and varied tasks

Our new department director will have a very central role in the management team of Museum Nord, and reports directly to the museum’s director.

Responsibilities and tasks for the position include:

• We are responsible for all our museums in West Lofoten, including the Lofotr Viking Museum at Borg, the Norwegian Fishing Village Museum at Å, the Fygle Museum at Fygle and Skaftnes Farm in Sennesvik.
• Overall responsibility for operations, finances, personnel management and performance in the department, with follow-up of goals and budgets in line with the museum’s strategy and action plan.
• planning and organizing operations, further developing public and tourism products, including seasonal offers, package offers and dissemination with a focus on the museum’s collections.
• actively contribute to strategic work and collaborative projects internally in Museum Nord, as well as build and strengthen networks locally, regionally and nationally. 

The office location for the finance and administration manager will be in Museum Nord’s administration at Borg.

Museum Nord is very pleased

“We were looking for a development-oriented person with management experience and solid professional weight in several fields. We are confident that Tore Bugge Pedersen is a very good choice for us and look forward to having him in place.” This is what deputy director of Museum Nord, Torunn Rørvik Wilhelmsson, says.

If you have any questions for Museum Nord about the appointment, you can contact deputy director Torunn Rørvik Wilhelmsson, tel. 995 29 785 (director Geir Are Johansen is currently on vacation).