Abstract
The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History underwent an extensive technological transformation during the 1990s. This involved the digitization of almost all catalogue information and images created during the museum's century-long existence. Basically, all services of the museum were taken from a paper-based context into an electronic environment. As head of the documentation department, the author of this paper had a central role in this process.

The paper discusses the impact of the technological revolution on the museum's role and work. It is based on an internal seminar that aimed to evaluate recent developments and the consequences for the museum. As this is a conference on photographic collections, the presentation will end with a project that deals with the photographic collections of the museum - a project that makes use of the opportunities offered by the new technology.

Trond Erik Bjorli, born 1955, is a cultural historian, a photographer and a master of arts in ethnology. Bjorli has been working with documentation within museums for the last 20 years on a national level. He has worked on both film documentation and on projects developing museum databases. The last decade he has primarily been working on the digitizing information sources at The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, as head of the documentation department. He is also the pictorial editor for Aschehougs Norwegian History in 12 volumes (1994-1998) and director of documentary movies such as Berit og Johannes. Et år på et småbruk I Hurdal (1997). He is presently working on an exhibition and a catalogue on the illustration of books through history.