ABSTRACT
The 100-year-old Trøndelag Folk Museum — an open-air museum of cultural history in Trondheim — has recently developed a new museum branch: the Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture (NDM), which opened in March 2009 after a rather long and troubled planning period. This chapter focuses on the problems and challenges encountered by seasoned museum workers when confronted with disability issues, challenges around the uses of sign language and the dilemmas thrown up by politicized distinctions between an understanding of deafness (as disability) versus Deafness as culture.
