The celebrations, year by year

Photos and videos

Flags, music and moments to treasure. Explore photographs and, as they become available, videos from Bergen’s 17 May celebrations in an archive open to everyone.

Choose a year to browse the photographs. Speeches and ceremonies have their own archive.

Korps og publikum i 17. mai-prosesjonen i Bergen i 2026.

PHOTO ARCHIVE · 2026

17 May 2026

465 photographs of processions, concerts, the Viking ship and evening fireworks. Photos by Anna T. Takle, Silje Katrine Robinson and Vemund Grimstad.

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Photographer: Silje Katrine Robinson

Publikum foran Vikingskipet under en konsert på 17. mai i Bergen.

PHOTO ARCHIVE · 2025

17 May 2025

Explore photographs by Anna T. Takle and Silje Katrine Robinson, with 564 uploaded image files from the celebrations.

Open the 2025 gallery

Photo: Silje Katrine Robinson · 2025

En taler i bunad og flosshatt står på Vikingskipet foran publikum under 17. mai-feiringen.

Voices from the celebrations

17 May speeches

A home for speeches and ceremonies from the Viking ship. Recordings are organised by year as they become available.

Explore the speech archive

Photo: Anna T. Takle · 2025

Read about 17 May in Bergen and the history behind the celebrations

Past celebrations in photographs

Bergen has celebrated Constitution Day for generations. Browse the Committee’s photo archive from 2014 onwards, year by year.