![]() ![]() After a couple hours of sleep I met Steve the next morning at the airport hotel breakfast area, and we boarded our SAS flight to Tromsø at the northern tip of Norway. It took three tries to fly out of Munich due to aircraft difficulties that resulted in me arriving at 1:30 am in Oslo. I would be meeting Steve in Oslo the following evening as he was traveling from Washington DC. On February 22nd I boarded a Lufthansa jet bound for Munich out of San Francisco. We quickly booked our complicated flights, and found accommodation in one of the few places to stay in winter. But with persistence and the Scandinavian participation Steve was able to secure us the invite. However the remoteness of the location and their limited time on site means they really don’t have time to give many tours. They open the Vault about twice a year to deposit new seed stock and they are apparently inundated with requests to visit. The Seed Vault administrators seem to be a bit overwhelmed with the interest in the Vault. Long Now would cover our accommodations for this scouting trip, and I would cover my own flight. Over the last year he was able to secure funding and collaboration with a Norwegian and a Dutch artist, and with it an official invite to visit the Vault. The Norwegian government management of the vault required that Rowell also get participation from Scandinavian nations, specifically Norway as part of his project. I said that we would as long as I got to come along on one of the trips to Svalbard and meet the creators of the Vault. About a year ago Rowell contacted me to see if Long Now would be interested in participating in his project. ![]() The Seed Vault is designed with a 1000 year design life to store back-up samples of every food crop seed in the world. Over the last couple years artist Steve Rowell has been planning a project to document the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as part of a larger project about the beginnings and future of agriculture. ![]()
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