Special exhibitions

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

1989

A general exhibition of Nanoq's collection.

1990

The Polar Eskimos; the world’s northernmost hunters. Small exhibition also in Bunde, Germany.

1991

The official opening of the museum. The Samojeds in Siberia. Prof. W.Goichman's art exhibition with arctic motives.

1992

Arctic art, Ursula Ekberg The village of Fäboda 400 years, in  co-operation with the City museum.

1993

Seal and polar bear hunting in the Arctic. Trappers Avataq Kernaq, Henry Rudi, Armas Tolsa.

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.

1995

100 years of art and handicraft in Greenland, the Tupilaq. The Greenland week in co-operation with Pohjola Norden and Greenland.

1996

The people of the Tundra and Taiga in Siberia.

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".

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.

1999

The Vikings, in cooperation with the Christianshob Museum of Greenland.

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.

2001

Scientists in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Pentti Kronqvist's and Nanoq's 10 year anniversary exhibition.

2002

Second World War in the Arctic.

2003

Finnish research in the Antarctic, Finnarp, the Oboa-station. Co-operation with the Finnish Maritime Research Institution.

2004

Prof.Wladimir Goichman memorial exhibition, 54 paintings of Arctic motifs.

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

2006

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

2007

Soldiers in the cold. Finnish Airborne Ranger Club -expedition to the geographic Northpole in 2006.

2008

Trappers in the Arctic.

2009

Three long journeys across Greenland. Nansen, Pihkala and Vuorenmaa & Mäkelä

2010

Christianity in Greenland and in the Arctic’s. Art exhibition: Christianity on Greenland

2011

Two famous polar explorers. The Nanoq museum 20 years

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