skip to primary navigation skip to content
 

 

You are not currently logged in

SPRI Polar Directory

Museums

Go to: Introductory page or country:

There are 5 entries in the museums directory for Finland:

Jump down to:

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.

^ Top

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: Julkaisuja

^ Top

Nanoq

Website: www.nanoq.fi
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).

^ Top

Suomen Kansallismuseo [The National Museum of Finland]

[The National Museum of Finland]
Website: www.kansallismuseo.fi/en/nationalmuseum
Contact name: Jaana Pietilä
Address: Street addres: Mannerheimintie 34, 00100 Helsinki, Finland Postal address: P.O.BOX 913, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland
Telephone: +358 295 33 6901
Open to the public? / Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11.00-18.00
Year of foundation: 1884
Collections: Extensive collections from Lapland, northern Russia, Siberia and Alaska, also collections from Greenland and Northern Canada. The Alaskan artefacts were primarily collected by Arvid Etholén between 1821 and 1845. The National Museum hosts a permanent exhibition of Sámi culture, and a new permanent exhibition of the Museum of Cultures is in preparation with the title TERRA POLARIS – Land of the North Star.
Publications: Alaska - Russian America (Varjola, 1988); The Etholen Collection: the ethnographic collection of Adolf Etholen and his contemporaries in the National Museum of Finland (Varjola, 1991); Finno-Ugric collections at the National Museum of Finland (Lehtinen, 1990); exhibition catalogues. The library includes ethnographic manuscripts of Sirelius (western Siberia), and Itkonen and Paulaharju (Lapland).

^ Top

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.

^ Top