Nanoq

Nanuk association 20 year jubilee booklet

Buy the Nanuk association's jubilee booklet, you get an interesting booklet while you also support the Museum. The book contains both the story of the founding of the Museum and personal narratives and reports of the Arctic and the Antartic, written by different authors. 






You can order the booklet by contacting Pentti Kronqvist by e-mail. 

 

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History

The Arctic Museum Nanoq (Nanoq means polarbear in the Inuit language) was created by the Finnish polar-voyager Pentti Kronqvist and many local enthusiasts. The Museum was inaugurated in 1991, and is the first museum in Finland dedicated to people and cultures in the Arctic. The museum is situated in the forest 7 km west of the town of Pietarsaari.

The main building of the museum is a dead ringer to the traditional semi-subterranial dwellings of the Arctic. Similar structures are found as far north as Thule in Northern Greenland. The building melts in perfectly with the surrounding forest and is in tune with the seasons.

The main building is surrounded by a variety of smaller houses; a peathouse from Greenland, a trappers cabin from Svalbard, a Goldiggers cabin from Lapland, the Goichman Gallery, a bunker made of logs reminiscent of the Finnish military structures in World War 2, and a copy of one of the worlds northernmost churches that was built in the village of Uummannaq in Northwestern Greenland in 1909.

Adjecent to the museum is also a small area with the ”original” cottages built by Pentti Kronqvist, one which is called "the Bear Den".


Every year during Jaakon Päivät (in the middle of July) an outdoor sermon is held at Nanoq