5/5 Adam G. 4 years ago on Google • 1507 reviews
A
MUST
SEE!!!
This
museum
is
made
up
of
the
original
buildings
in
the
old
colony
harbour
area
of
Nanortalik,
dating
from
the
1830’s
&
40’s
and
so
represents
a
well-preserved
historical
environment
of
the
area.
Originally,
each
building
was
used
for
a
specific
purpose
in
the
colony
such
as
a
bakery,
a
fish
processing
plant,
and
a
hospital
etc
but
now
collectively
they
form
the
Nanortalik
Museum
and
contain
many
hundreds
of
historical
artifacts,
including
some
from
the
original
Icelandic
Viking
settlers
of
Greenland,
copies
of
Herjolfsnaes'
famous
Vikings
clothes,
historical
documents
and
photographs
of
the
area
and
the
Old
Norse
culture,
kayaks
and
umiaks
dating
from
1440
and
among
the
oldest
found
in
Greenland
(discovered
in
1948
by
explorer
Eigil
Knuth),
ancient
Inuit
mud
houses
and
summer
tents.
For
example,
Building
B-2,
was
originally
the
home
of
the
surgeon
Johannes
Haverdorf
Lytzen
and
prior
to
being
taken
up
by
the
museum
was
used
for
a
number
of
purposes
including
hospital,
children's
home,
police
station
and
a
youth
club.
Formerly
bakery
and
brew-house,
Building
B-6,
originally
built
in
1840
from
granite
boulders
with
shingled
roof
is
now
being
used
as
a
bakery
and
trade
showroom.
Building
B-8,
built
in
1837
originally
as
a
shop
then
a
carpentry,
now
houses
the
museum's
exhibition
of
the
excavation
by
Poul
Norlund
in
Herjolfsnaes,
Ikigaat
in
1921
with
copies
of
the
recovered
costumes
from
the
Scandinavian
period.
Building-18,
built
in
1840
and
prior
to
being
used
by
the
Nanortalik
Outdoor
Museum,
was
a
winter
retreat
for
sailors
and
subsequently,
the
town's
radio
station.
Building
B-105,
built
in
1852,
originally
a
blubber-house,
now
contains
the
museum's
collection
of
umiaks,
kayaks
and
different
hunting
tools.
Visiting
this
museum
is
a
great
way
to
get
a
deeper
understanding
and
feel
of
the
history
of
this
harsh
corner
of
the
world
and
the
lives,
language
and
dialectical
differences,
habitation
and
living
conditions,
appearance,
clothing,
rituals,
culture,
customs,
and
religion,
beliefs
and
moral
values
of
the
Greenlandic
people
as
well
as
the
tools,
weapons
and
other
implements
they
used
and
their
art
and
craft.
There's
lot
to
see
and
you
could
easily
spend
a
few
hours
here,
and
it's
well
worth
it.
It's
fantastic
that
someone
had
the
vision
to
collect
and
keep
all
this
historical
material.
The
museum
is
located
a
short
walking
distance
east
(left)
from
the
new
Nanortalik
town
centre,
just
past
the
Danish
Lutheran
Church.
Entrance
Fee
is
$5
USD,
$5
EURO
or
25,000
Danish
KR.
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