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Aasiaat Museum
| Address: | PO Box 41, DK-3950 Aasiaat |
| Telephone: | +299-42597. |
Aversuup Katersugaasivia [Qaanaq/Thule Museum]
| [Qaanaq/Thule Museum] | |
| Address: | Qaanaq |
Maniitsup Katersugaasivia [Maniitsoq 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]
| [Nanortalik Museum] | |
| Address: | DK-3922 Nanortalik |
Narsaq Museum
| Address: | Narsaq |
Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaategarfialu [Greenland National Museum and Archives]
| [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]
| [Paamiut Museum] | |
| Address: | PO Box 99, DK-3940 Paamiut |
| Telephone: | +299-17673 |
| Fax: | +299-17854 |
| Year of foundation: | 1981 |
Qaqortoq Museum
| Address: | PO 154, DK-3920 Qaqortoq |
| Telephone: | +299-38277. |
Qasigiannquit 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. |
Sisimiuni Katersugaasivik [Sisimiut 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]
| [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]
| [Uummannap Museum] | |
| Address: | PO Box 70, DK-3961 Uummannaq |
| Telephone: | +299-48104 |
| Year of foundation: | 1988 |
| Publications: | Katersugaasivimmit nutaarsiassat - Nyt fra museet |