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Inarin Saamelaismuseo [Inari Saami Museum]
| [Inari Saami Museum] | |
| Website: | www.samimuseum.fi |
| Address: | FIN-99870 Inari |
| Year of foundation: | 1961 |
| Collections: | Open air museum. Displays and recreation of Saami life centred on traditional Saami wooden buildings and villages brought together here following World War II, during which the great majority of such buildings were destroyed. |
Lapin Maakuntamuseo/Lapplands Landskapsmuseum [Provincial Museum of Lapland]
| [Provincial Museum of Lapland] | |
| Website: | www.rovaniemi.fi/taide/maakmus/elamu.htm |
| Address: | Arktikum House, Pohjoisranta 4, FIN-96100 Rovaniemi |
| Telephone: | +358-60-317-840 |
| Fax: | +358-60-322-3091 |
| Year of foundation: | 1975 |
| Collections: | Extensive holdings for Saami material culture. The exhibition area is divided into three sections: Saami reindeer husbandry and other aspects of Saami culture; the Province; and the history of the city of Rovaniemi |
| Publications: | <em>Julkaisuja</em> |
Nanoq
| Website: | www.nanoq.is |
| Address: | Near Jakobstad/Pietarsaari |
| Collections: | Arctic museum modelled after the 100-year old peat house at Etah where Peary stayed. Founder and Curator is Pentti Kronqvist. Collections include materials from Saami and Inuit, literature about Arctic, ca.100 films, relics from Arctic expeditions of Phipps and Nordenskjold (Vega). |
Suomen Kansallismuseo [National Museum of Finland]
| [National Museum of Finland] | |
| Address: | Mannerheimintie 34, PO Box 913, FIN-00101 Helsinki |
| Telephone: | +358-0-40501 |
| Fax: | +358-0-4050400/4050300 |
| Year of foundation: | 1893 [originally founded as National Board of Antiquities in 1884] |
| Collections: | Extensive collections with Lapland, northern Russia, Siberia and Alaska particularly well-represented. The Alaskan artefacts were primarily collected by Arvid Etholen between 1821 and 1845. Permanent Finno-Ugric displays and temporary dsplays of other polar material. The library includes ethnographic manuscripts of Sirelius (western Siberia), and Itkonen and Paulaharju (Lapland) |
| Publications: | <em>Alaska - Russian America</em> (Varjola, 1988); <em>The Etholen Collection: the ethnographic collection of Adolf Etholen and his contemporaries in the National Museum of Finland</em> (Varjola, 1991); <em>Finno-Ugric collections at the National Museum of Finland</em> (Lehtinen, 1990); exhibition catalogues |
Suomen Merimuseo [Maritime Museum of Finland]
| [Maritime Museum of Finland] | |
| Address: | Hylkysaari, FIN-00570 Helsinki |
| Telephone: | +358-0-135-5379 |
| Fax: | +358-0-135-4991 |
| Year of foundation: | 1981 |
| Collections: | Icebreaker Tarmo located at Kotka, SE Finland; ice breaking equipment and instruments and models of icebreakers. |