

MADS PIHL/VISIT GREENLAND, 2016
A museum committee was formed in Nanortalik on 31 October 1977, and the municipality made the old hospital available. From 1981 to 1982, the old remote trading post manager’s residence was restored and handed over, and it became the first home of the Nanortalik Museum, which inaugurated the building on 1 August 1982.
The Nanortalik Museum is set up as an open-air museum in the old colonial port. The museum includes almost all of the buildings, most of them being used as exhibition rooms. The open-air museum includes replicas of peat sheds, summer camp sites, skin boats with covered stands and kayak stands which can be used by the kayak association, as well as a kayaking roll practice ground. In addition, the museum has skin clothing, which is used at cultural events as well as at events for tourists.
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
- Nanortalik
- 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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