The Arctic Museum NanoqThe Arctic museum Nanoq is situated in Fäboda, 7 km from the city center of Pietarsaari. The museum is run by the association Nanuk r.f. Nanoq means polar bear in the Greenland language.
All of the work building the museum has been done by sponsored money and volunteer work. The founder Pentti Kronqvist got the idea to open a museum after he collected an amount of arctic items during his polar expeditions. By opening a museum, the items are shown to the public and saved for the future. Nanoq is Finland’s first arctic museum.
Blends Into Nature
The main building of the museum is built as a copy of a turf house in northern parts of Greenland. As the old turf houses in Greenland blend in to the nature and follow the changes of the seasons, as is Nanoq fitted in to the nature in Fäboda. The only difference is that the museum has a modern equipment and décor inside.
Not only is there a number of houses with connection to the Arctic´s, there is also a village from the beginning of the 20th century. The village is called “the Bear’s lair” and it consists of eight houses that Kronqvist has reconstructed and made to a village, showing how people lived in the cost regions of Pietarsaari.
Let yourself be carried away by the Arctic history. The large collection offers a lot of fascinating stories – about broken hearts, frozen fingers and lost men.
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