Decolonizing the Museum: Unhighlighting Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum’s Iconic Laestadius Teaching Laplanders (1840)

• Published in: Interventions
• Main Author: Gullickson, Charis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Auguste; Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum; Norway; Pasteur; Tromsø; Lapons; Northern Norway; Sámi; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29852; https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161063

This essay presents a decolonial analysis of the French painter François-Auguste Biard’s Le Pasteur Laestadius instruisant des Lapons (1840). A highlight at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Northern Norway Art Museum) in Romsa/Tromsø, Biard’s work represents the pastor Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861) preachi...