Sisimiut Museum

Sisimiut Museum in Sisimiut, Greenland, brings together the region’s deep past and more recent local history. Its collections emphasize Greenlandic trade, industry, and shipping, while archaeological finds from nearby Saqqaq culture sites illuminate life in the area about 4,000 years ago. The museum draws on a decade of excavations at ancient settlements, including the Nipisat site discovered in 1989 by curator Finn Kramer, who led work there for five years. Its holdings also include tools and household objects from 1902 to 1922, an old church inventory with an altarpiece from about 1650, paintings from the 1790s, a reconstructed peat house, and an 18th-century kayak.

Qeqqata · Greenland