The exhibition, which opened at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in February 2017, was developed within the framework of the research project. At the same time, the museum has endeavored to make room for other perspectives and approaches than the research project is based on. People with backgrounds from several different disciplines, fields and professional traditions have been involved in the work on the exhibition.

In addition to historians, the museum has collaborated with archaeologists, architects, historians of ideas, museologists and artists. The exhibition's design has been created in close collaboration with scenographers from the Academy of Performing Arts at Østfold University College. The work with the exhibition has always aimed to contribute to the development of methods that combine research, dissemination and administration tasks in new ways.

Right from the start, dissemination work has played a major role. The museum has organized debate meetings and workshops and contributed to a documentary film about forced labour. A year and a half before the exhibition's official opening, a smaller part of the exhibition was made available to the public. The ambition was to bring researchers, various interested parties and the general public into the exhibition, while it was still being prepared. In this way, the museum wanted to create engagement and publicity around the exhibition and its theme, while at the same time entering into a dynamic and binding dialogue with its surroundings.

Thanks to the Norwegian Technical University of Science and Technology, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Statens Vegvesen and the Errinerrung, Veranwortung, Zukunft Foundation, who have supported the exhibition financially.