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Aasiaat Museum

Type:	Museum
Address:	PO Box 41, DK-3950 Aasiaat
Telephone:	+299-42597.

Aatsitassalerinermut Allaffik [Mineral Resources Office, Greenland Government]

Type:	Organisation
	[Mineral Resources Office, Greenland Government]
Address:	PO Box 1015, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-23000
Fax:	+299-24302
Year of foundation:	1994
Activities:	Provides information to Greenland Government and Greenlandic communities relating to minerals prospecting and development; and to mining and oil companies concerning operating conditions in Greenland. See also Minerals Resources Administration for Greenland.

Ammassalik Museum

Type:	Museum
Website:	www.ammassalik.gl
Address:	Ammassalik

Arctic Station

Type:	Organisation
Address:	DK-3953 Qeqertarsuaq/Godhavn
Telephone:	+45-1-35-322160
Fax:	+45-1-33-139104
Year of foundation:	1906
Activities:	Research institute under the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The major research fields are botany, zoology, geomorphology and geology. Library.
Publications:	Danish Arctic Station on Disko Island, Greenland. Publications (1967-) [continues Dansk Arktisk Station paa Disko. Arbejder (1910?-67)]

Aversuup Katersugaasivia [Qaanaq/Thule Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Qaanaq/Thule Museum]
Address:	Qaanaq

Forsoegstationen 'Upernaviarsuk' [Experimental Station 'Uper']

Type:	Organisation
	[Experimental Station 'Uper']
Address:	PO Box 152, DK-3920, Qaqortoq
Telephone:	+299-38006
Fax:	+299-38006
Activities:	Independent research station study potential for sheep rearing, fodder crops and gardening in a polar environment.

Greenland Home Rule Government

Type:	Organisation
Website:	www.gh.gl
Address:	PO Box 1015, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-23000
Fax:	+299-25002
Year of foundation:	1979
Activities:	Set up under the Home Rule Act (1978) to legislate and govern all of Greenland's internal affairs within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Greenland Technological Society

Type:	Organisation
Activities:	[Sister organization to Danish Society for Arctic Technology]

Greenland Tourism a/s

Type:	Organisation
Address:	Head Office, PO Box 1552, Hans Egdesvej 29, #DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+45-33-136975
Fax:	+45-33-933883
Year of foundation:	1992
Activities:	Wholly owned by the Greenland Home-Rule Government with responsibilities for the development and organization of the tourist industry.
Publications:	Travel News from Greenland (1995-, 4pa); tourist brochures.

Greenlandic Medical Association

Type:	Organisation
Address:	Nanortalik Sygehus, DK-3922 Nanortalik
Telephone:	+299-33211
Fax:	+299-33512
Activities:	organizes Nuna Med conferences (1991-, every three years)

Greenlandic Place Names Committee

Type:	Organisation
Address:	PO Box 1029, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab

Groenlandica

Type:	Library
Website:	www.groenlandica.gl
Address:	Groenlandica, Imaneq 26, Box 1011, DK 3900 Godthaab, Greenland
E-mail:	groenlandica@katak.gl
Telephone:	+299-38-56-30
Notes:	Groenlandica is the name of the National Library of Greenland in Greenlandic, Danish and English. Groenlandica is a branch of the Central Public Library (Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia in Greenlandic, Groenlands Landsbibliotek in Danish). The head of Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia is Elisa Petersen. Groenlandica Collection re-established after former collection was destroyed in a fire in 1968. Lately there has been a growing emphasis on the anthropological/sociological aspects of the Inuit populations of the Arctic. With Home Rule in Greenland starting in 1980 the Groenlandica collections have become the "National Library" of Greenland - containing most of the material published in Greenland. DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Books in Greenlandic (Eskimo/Inuit languages) - approximately 4,500 volumes. Books on Greenland and the rest of the Arctic area - very general and broad coverage. Books on Inuit of the Arctic, especially anthropological/sociological aspects. Printed Brochure Available: Yes, in Danish and Greenlandic. Size of Polar Collection: Books: 17,000. Periodical Titles: Not registered separately. Pamphlets and Reprints: Not registered separately. Phono-records: ca. 50. Audio tapes: ca. 500 - not yet registered. USER SERVICES: Classification System Used: Danish Decimal Classification, modified to our collections. Users Policy: Students and scholars from outside the institution are free to use the polar library collection. Circulation Policy: Material available on loan to anyone. A number of books are for use in the library only. Interlibrary Loan Policy: No charges. Copying Facilities: Photocopies supplied of material not for loan. Charge imposed only if the amount of copies exceeds 25 - one Danish krone per copy. Additional Comments: The Library has occasionally published books suitable for use in public libraries in Greenland. These books are in Greenlandic. IN-HOUSE DATABASES: DDE (Dansk Data Elektronik)

Groenlands Fiskeriundersoegelser (GF) [Greenland Fisheries Research Institute (GFRI)]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Fisheries Research Institute (GFRI)]
Address:	PO Box 570, 3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+45-31-854444
Fax:	+45-35-821850
Year of foundation:	1946
Activities:	Fisheries science and biology of marine mammals, fish and invertebrates.

Groenlands Forundersoegelser / Misissueqqaarnerit [Greenland Field Investigations]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Field Investigations]
Address:	Head Office, Mestervej 8, PO Box 1003, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+45-31-383055
Fax:	+45-35-430830
Year of foundation:	1961 [formerly part of the Technical Organization of Greenland]
Activities:	Has primary responsibility for the collection of hydrological and climatological data in Greenland. Also responsible for surveying and mapping activities.
Publications:	Klima-Info (1992-, 13pa)

Groenlandsbanken A/S [Bank of Greenland]

Type:	Organisation
	[Bank of Greenland]
Address:	29 Skibshavnsvej, PO Box 1033, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-21380
Fax:	+299-23032
Activities:	In addition to Nuuk, has branches at Sisimiut, Qaqortoq, Ilulissat, Maniitsoq and Nuussuaq.

Groenlandsfly A/S [Greenlandair Charter A/S]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenlandair Charter A/S]
Address:	PO Box 1012, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-28-888
Fax:	+299-27-288
Year of foundation:	1960
Activities:	Charter airline operating out of Nuuk and Copenhagen.

Ilisimatusarfik / The Greenland University

Type:	Organisation
Website:	http://chapman.sprl.db.erau.edu
Address:	PO Box 279, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-24-566
Fax:	+299-24-711
Year of foundation:	1984
Activities:	Undergraduate- and Masters-level courses focusing on Greenland and the Arctic taught in 3 institutes: Greenlandic Language and Literature; History, Ethnology and Prehistory; and Administration and Economy.
Publications:	Groenland Kultur- og Samfundsforskning (1992-, annual)

Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland Library

Type:	Library
Website:	www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Home/Bibliotek/tabid/67/Default.aspx
Address:	P.O. Box 279, 3900 Nuuk, Greenland
E-mail:	bibliotek@ilisimatusarfik.gl
Telephone:	+299 324566
Fax:	+299 324711
Year of foundation:	The Library at the Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland was established in 1984.
Notes:	The library is exclusively for the staff and students at Ilisimatusarfik. The library contains some 18.000 books and 125 periodicals covering the following themes: Economics, politics, administration; History, anthropology, archaeology; Linguistics, literature, media; Theology Additional Internet resources: http://archive.arcticportal.org/143/ and Library catalogue: http://www.katak.gl/sites/UNIW/pub/search.html

Kalaallit Atuakkiortut [Greenlandic Authors' Society]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenlandic Authors' Society]
Address:	PO Box 43, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-23-475
Year of foundation:	1975

Kalaallit Niuerfiat (KNI) [Greenland Trade]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Trade]
Address:	PO Box 1008, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Year of foundation:	1776 [Until 1985 Kongelige Groenlanske Handel (Royal Greenland Trading Company)]
Activities:	Greenland-owned company now divided into three independent companies: KNI Service Inc, KNI Retail Inc. and Royal Arctic Line Inc. (the latter is a shipping company owned jointly with Lauritzen).

Kalaallit Nunaanni Angalatitsivik / Groenlands Rejsebureau A/S [Greenland Travel]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Travel]
Address:	PO Box 330, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-43-455
Fax:	+299-23-369
Activities:	Greenlandic-owned and based travel agency. Other branches are in Ilulissat/Jakobshavn and Copenhagen.

Kalaallit Nunaanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik / Groenlands Statistisk [Greenland Statistics]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Statistics]
Website:	www.statgreen.gl
Address:	PO Box 1025, DK-3900, Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-23-000
Fax:	+299-22-954
Year of foundation:	1989
Publications:	Greenland - Kalaallit Nunaat (1991-, annual); also, other statistical series and reports.

Kalallit Nunaat Aalisartut Pinartullu Kattufiat (KNAPK) [Greenland Association of Fishermen and Hunters]

Type:	Organisation
	[Greenland Association of Fishermen and Hunters]

Kangerlussuaq International Science Support (KISS)

Type:	Organisation
Website:	www.greenland-guide.dk/kangerlussuaq
Address:	PO Box 109, DK-3910 Kangerlussuaq
Telephone:	+299-11107
Fax:	+299-11472
Year of foundation:	1994
Activities:	Provides accommodation, laboratories, offices and other facilities for researchers. Booking available through the Danish Polar Center.

Maniitsup Katersugaasivia [Maniitsoq Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Maniitsoq Museum]
Website:	www.maniitsoqmuseum.info
Contact name:	Peter Nygaard
Address:	Illunnguit 11, P.O. Box 318, GL-3912 Maniitsoq, Greenland
E-mail:	manmuseum@qeqqata.gl
Telephone:	+299 81 31 00
Open to the public? / Opening hours:	Tuesday-Thursday 11.00-16.00
Year of foundation:	1980
Collections:	Cultural history

Nanortallip Katersugaasivia [Nanortalik Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Nanortalik Museum]
Address:	DK-3922 Nanortalik

Narsaq Museum

Type:	Museum
Address:	Narsaq

Nuna-Tek

Type:	Organisation
Website:	www.statgreen.gl/english/yearbook/chr-1990.html
Address:	PO Box 1044, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-24-466
Year of foundation:	1951 [formerly Technical Organization of Greenland]

Nunani Avannarlerni Piorsarsimassutsikkut Attaveqaat (NAPA) / Nordens Institut i Groenland [Nordic Institute in Greenland]

Type:	Organisation
	[Nordic Institute in Greenland]
Address:	PO Box 770, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-24733
Fax:	+299-25733
Year of foundation:	1986
Activities:	Financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers to promote Greenlandic art and cultural life and to foster inter-Nordic cultural relations in all fields.

Nunatta Atuagaatequarfia / Landsbibliotek Groenlandica [National Library of Greenland]

Type:	Library
	[National Library of Greenland]
Website:	www.katak.gl
Address:	Imaneq 26, PO Box 1011, DK 3900 Nuuk/Godthaab, Greenland
E-mail:	nalib@katak.gl
Telephone:	+299-32 11 56
Fax:	+299-32 39 43
Year of foundation:	Founded in 1956, becoming the national library in 1980. The original collection was destroyed in a fire in 1968.
Publications:	Groenlandica; catalogue of the Groenlandica-collection in the National Library of Greenland (Hoyer, 1986)

Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaategarfialu [Greenland National Museum and Archives]

Type:	Museum
	[Greenland National Museum and Archives]
Address:	PO Box 145 and 579, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-22-611
Fax:	+299-22-622
Year of foundation:	1966 [formerly known as Kalaallit Nunatta Katersugaasivia]
Collections:	Registers, collects, and displays materials concerning Greenland's cultural heritage. Extensive collection of ethnographic and archaeological artefacts for Greenlandic and Norse cultures, also interesting material relating to European missionary and whaling activities.

Pamiune Katersugausivik [Paamiut Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Paamiut Museum]
Address:	PO Box 99, DK-3940 Paamiut
Telephone:	+299-17673
Fax:	+299-17854
Year of foundation:	1981

Qaqortoq Museum

Type:	Museum
Address:	PO 154, DK-3920 Qaqortoq
Telephone:	+299-38277.

Qasigiannquit Museum

Type:	Museum
Address:	PO Box 130, DK-3951 Qasigiannguit/Christianshaab
Fax:	+299-45477
Year of foundation:	1982
Collections:	Focus on Palaeo-Eskimo prehistory of Disko Bugt with large collections of stone age material from Qeqertasussuk and other sites. Some ethnographic artefacts from colonial period.

Royal Arctic Line A/S

Type:	Organisation
Website:	www.ral.gl
Address:	Head Office, PO Box 1580, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Telephone:	+299-22420
Fax:	+299-22450
Year of foundation:	1993
Activities:	Set up by J. Lauritzen and the Greenland Government through Kalaallit Niuerfiat to operate ice-strengthened shipping providing regular services to Greenland ports and linking Greenland, Iceland and Denmark.

Simerneq

Type:	Organisation
Address:	PO Box 1009, DK-3900 Nuuk/Godthaab
Year of foundation:	1979
Activities:	Artists' society organizing exhibitions of works by members (Spring exhibition) and others (Autumn exhibition).

Sisimiuni Katersugaasivik [Sisimiut Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Sisimiut Museum]
Address:	PO Box 308, DK-3911 Sisimiut
Telephone:	+299-15087
Fax:	+299-14475
Year of foundation:	1985
Collections:	Community museum. Displays illustrate whaling, trade, shipyards and shipping, fishing industry, and industrial work. Includes the collection of V.C. Frederiksen (ca. 1910).

Tasiilap Katersugaasivia [Ammassalik Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Ammassalik Museum]
Website:	www.paris.org/Musees/Marine/
Address:	PO Box 112, DK-3913 Tasiilaq
Telephone:	+299-981311
Fax:	+299-981711
Year of foundation:	1990
Collections:	Community museum. Fine collection of culture and art objects, masks, tools, costumes, etc. Small collection of paintings by East Greenlandic artists and Danish painter Gitz-Johansen. A number of portrait busts by Eigil Knuth are owned by the museum but housed in the town hall. A traditional peat shed build to replicate those of the early twentieth century may be seen next to the museum.

Uummannap Katersugaasivia [Uummannap Museum]

Type:	Museum
	[Uummannap Museum]
Address:	PO Box 70, DK-3961 Uummannaq
Telephone:	+299-48104
Year of foundation:	1988
Publications:	Katersugaasivimmit nutaarsiassat - Nyt fra museet