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Laurel A Calsoni

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

A Norwegian company is establishing a doomsday vault for music

A Norwegian company is preparing what they say is a doomsday vault, intended to preserve a huge variety of music’s most important works, on an arctic island midway between the North Pole and Norway.

The vault, the company say, can survive underground for 1,000 years

From Australian Indigenous music to classics by The Beatles, the Oslo-based Elire Management Group claim the vault – dubbed the Global Music Vault – will endure for at least 1,000 years, buried on the Svalbard archipelago beneath ice and snow at a depth of 1,000 feet. Read more here

posted by Laurel Calsoni at 12:50 pm  

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