ABSTRACT
Odderøya Museum Harbour concentrates its activities on building up a display of motorboats, both from its own and private collections. A small establishment with a modest permanent collection, active community connections, it offers visitors a ‘slow fun’ experience, as well as a huge database on fibreglass/plastic motorboats produced locally from early 1950s onwards until this activity declined due to much cheaper production in South-East Asia. The unusual approach to ownership, acquisition, and display of objects takes this institution to the edge of the conventional notion of ‘museum’ – instead of relying on acquiring and maintaining objects, it explores a way of shared/distributed ownership and of coordinating multiple activities beyond its immediate control.
