Special exhibitions
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Every year the Nanoq museum shows one or several special exhibitions. These exhibitions have had various themes over the years and Nanoq has co-operated with several other museums across the world.
Below you'll find a list of our exhibitions between 1989-2009:
Year Theme
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1989 |
A general exhibition of Nanoq's collection. |
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1990 |
The Polar Eskimos; the world’s northernmost hunters. Small exhibition also in Bunde, Germany. |
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1991 |
The official opening of the museum. The Samojeds in Siberia. Prof. W.Goichman's art exhibition with arctic motives. |
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1992 |
Arctic art, Ursula Ekberg The village of Fäboda 400 years, in co-operation with the City museum. |
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1993 |
Seal and polar bear hunting in the Arctic. Trappers Avataq Kernaq, Henry Rudi, Armas Tolsa. |
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1994 |
Arctic living on Greenland, Svalbard and in Siberia. The 4000 year old Sarqaq-culture in Greenland. In co-operation with the National Museum of Greenland. |
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1995 |
100 years of art and handicraft in Greenland, the Tupilaq. The Greenland week in co-operation with Pohjola Norden and Greenland. |
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1996 |
The people of the Tundra and Taiga in Siberia. |
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1997 |
The Andreé expedition of 1897. Memorial exhibiton. Co-operation with the Andreé Museum in Sweden. Art by Ina Almegård, Sweden "I dream of Greenland". |
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1998 |
70 year memorial exhibition of Umberto Nobile's "Italia expedition" in 1928. Co-operation with the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan, Italy. Crafts made by Greenlandic Women. Sketches of the Sibirian Coast, Artist unknown. |
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1999 |
The Vikings, in cooperation with the Christianshob Museum of Greenland. |
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2000 |
Goldmining in Lapland and the rest of the world, in co-opertaion with the Tankavaara Gold museum. Photograf exhibition of the Thule Inuit by Tiina Itkonen. |
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2001 |
Scientists in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Pentti Kronqvist's and Nanoq's 10 year anniversary exhibition. |
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2002 |
Second World War in the Arctic. |
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2003 |
Finnish research in the Antarctic, Finnarp, the Oboa-station. Co-operation with the Finnish Maritime Research Institution. |
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2004 |
Prof.Wladimir Goichman memorial exhibition, 54 paintings of Arctic motifs. |
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2005 |
Mammoth research on Wrangel Island in Siberia. Gold as a profession and hobby. In co-operation with GTK. Art exhibition by Christian Olsen Ajo, "The Face of Greenland |
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2006 |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld |
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2007 |
Soldiers in the cold. Finnish Airborne Ranger Club -expedition to the geographic Northpole in 2006. |
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2008 |
Trappers in the Arctic. |
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2009 |
Three long journeys across Greenland. Nansen, Pihkala and Vuorenmaa & Mäkelä |
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2010 |
Christianity in Greenland and in the Arctic’s. Art exhibition: Christianity on Greenland |
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2011 |
Two famous polar explorers. The Nanoq museum 20 years |


