Meet The Whale Team

Hi, it's nice to meet you.....

The whale team are the group of people planning, organising, undertaking and running the whale project. We all have different roles within the team and together we will conservate and restore the whale skeletons over the next 2 years.

We come from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the UK and have a wide range of skills and experience which will be very useful as we tackle the often complicated problems presented by this chanlenging work.

Terje Lislevand: Associate Professor in zoology at Bergen Musuem. Terje is the leader of the whale project and responsible for the musuem's animal exhibitions.

Marie Louise Lorentzen: A painting conservator from Stockholm, she gained her bachelor degree in paintings and polychrome sculpure from The University of Gothenburg. For the last nine years Marie Louise has worked for the Culture History Collections at Bergen Musuem and since 2009 has been an advisor within the Musuem Project 2014.

Christina Holmefjord: Gained her bachelor degree in archaeology before qualifying as a natural history conservator at The School of Conservation, Copenhagen. Christina has worked as a conservator at Bergen Musuem for many years and together with Andreas Grinde wrote a detailed condition report on the whale skeletons.

Gordon Turner Walker: An archaeological conservator from the UK. Gordon gained his PhD at Durham University and for the last 7 years has worked in The Graduate School of Cultural Heritage Conservation, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology.

Marielle Bergh: Is a cultural historic conservator from Gothenburg University, Sweden with a big interset in natural history museum conservation.

Zina Fihl: Is a natural historic conservator from Denmark who qualified at The School of Conservation , Copenhagen. She has a special interest in casting and palaeontology.

Catherine Hellier: Is an anatomist from the UK. Catherine gained her PhD at The University of Liverpool and has since been working at The Gades Institute and Department of Anatomy, The University of Bergen.


You will hearing a lot more about us and getting to know us a lot better as the project continues ....