In early May, a 4-day workshop devoted to nuclear cultural heritage was arranged by Anna Storm and Karin Edberg in cooperation with museum professionals in the Skåne region as well as staff from the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. The event was part of our sister project NuSpaces, “Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage”, which involves researchers, cultural organisations and nuclear industry representatives from Sweden, Lithuania and the UK. The Nuclear Natures team was able to meet more than 25 persons from the three countries who, in a three-year process, gather annually to compare experiences working with nuclear heritage.

The group visited the Barsebäck plant, currently undergoing decommissioning and dismantling, and was able to visit parts of the plant that rarely is available for external visitors. In addition, we were able to access a newly discovered archive of architect drawings of buildings and landscape of the Barsebäck plant and surroundings, located at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp.

The workshop also included a public facing afternoon at Malmö Museums, where nuclear cultural heritage in general and the remembrance of the Barsebäck nuclear power plant more specifically, was discussed through a panel discussion and a film screening. An art intervention by the sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard was also part of the program. 

Concluding discussions and future objectives were in focus during the last day of the workshop, spent at the museum Kulturen in Lund.