ABSTRACT
In the 1940s, Norsk Teknisk Museum started to register and document technical heritage. It built up an archive of descriptions, drawings, photographs, and other copies of objects, buildings, and facilities. Performativity/substitution models have provided inspiring perspectives on the documentation and restoration work performed at Norsk Teknisk Museum. Gulbrand. Gulbrandsen and his Association were not concerned with copies, but with authentic and representative objects. The Association of Friends of Norwegian Mills perceived the mills as objects with a long, persisting history, not linked to specific historical origins. Arts Council Norway and Norway’s Village Mill Association provided funding for the restoration of Molstadkvern Mill. Different views of historicity, originality, and copying were also expressed in connection with the restoration of another mill. In 1965, Norsk Teknisk Museum took ownership of Molstadkvern Mill in Brandbu, at Hadeland in East-Norway.
