The wish to have a museum in Narsaq initially came from local politicians. A museum committee was appointed in 1973 to work for the establishment of a museum.
The Narsaq Museum consists of several buildings located in three different locations in the town. Until the 1950s, the main building from about 1850 served as the town’s first and only grocery shop. Furthermore, the museum has an extensive stone collection in a building constructed in 1848 as a storeroom and cold store. In addition, there is a residential house from around 1900 as well as a 1920 house that was originally used as a remote trading post manager’s residence and later became Narsaq’s first post office. Associated with the museum is also the town’s first power plant from around 1950, a reconstruction of the town’s last peat house as well as a memorial room for the priest Henrik Lund.
Further reading
- Churches and church building
- Hans Egede and the work for the mission service
- Home Rule (1979‑2008)
- Kujataa – farming on the brink of the ice sheet
- Narsaq
- Religion and religious communities
- The colonial period until the war years
- Towns and settlements
- Traditions and tales
- Visual arts and crafts
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