Dag Kjelldahl started out flying an air taxi in the Caribbean before working in a newspaper in Oslo. Then he trained to be a meteorologist in the Norwegian Arctic. He spent two years on isolated Bear Island, wrote a book about it and made a television documentary. On the island he discovered the unknown campsite where a group of Dutchmen wintered 1700-1701 after a shipwreck, half of them succumbed in the extreme weather conditions. The clay pipes and other remains are exhibited in the science centre.
Dag spent some years teaching before creating the first Norwegian hands-on musuem Teknoteket which opened in 1986. From 1999 he has worked full-time on the Whitby Wizard project, building all the 100 exhibits himself. It took 3 years! One last remark: The first science centre in North Yorkshire has never recieved any public funding or any type of grant.