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Institute of Natural Resources
At the north edge of town near the sweet little golf course is the Institute of Natural Resources , in a pair of glass-nosed wooden-slab buildings that look passingly photogenic in low evening light. A tourist-office tour (Dkr198, one hour) takes you inside on certain working-day a
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Lund Cottage
Henrik Lund (1875-1948) was a priest, painter and poet whose song Nunarput has since become Greenlands national anthem. Outside the red-and-green Lund Cottage , amid wildflowers, his bust sports a Lutheran priests ruff, and his bronze lips have turned blue - from graffiti, not Arct
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Katuaq Cultural Centre
The spacious Katuaq Cultural Centre is by far Nuuks finest piece of modern architecture, a sinuous wooden wave edged in glass. It houses the Greenland Art School, the NAPA Nordic Institute and a reading library as well as hosting exhibitions, conferences, concerts, a cinema and Nuu
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Fredenskirche
Fredenskirche , Paamiuts colourful 1909 church, has a Norwegian-style Hansel-and-Gretel façade. Incredibly the church was stretched by 6m in the 1980s: try to spot the added two-window section. To visit the interior, enquire at the priests office , which is a relatively grand red m
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Qeqertarsuaq Museum
The Qeqertarsuaq Museum , in the beautiful former inspectors house at the harbour, has exhibitions on the towns history, including the colonial and whaling period; the Arctic Research Station; and Greenlandic Christmas customs. The museum also houses a collection of works by Jakob
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Upernavik Old Town Museum
The entire historical district of Upernavik is basically an outdoor museum. The museum itself, Greenlands oldest, is a real surprise. Most interesting is the original qajaq ensemble complete with harpoon, throwing stick, bird skewer, knife, seal-stomach float (to prevent seals divi
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Maniitsoq Museum
Maniitsoq Museum is housed in a series of picturesque historic buildings constructed in 1874 and originally used to house a bakery, a blacksmiths shop and work sheds. The museum displays artefacts dating from Saqqaq times right up to the early 20th century. Another section is devot
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Kittat
Kittat is a low-key fur workshop that specialises in making traditional style costumes and kammiks . Anyone can peep inside at the small, functional flensing and sewing rooms. The skin-drying racks are outside. Along with the museum and a carvers co-operative, this is where youd en
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Hunting & Fishing Museum
The newly renovated Hunting & Fishing Museum emphasises the hunting and fishing traditions of the polar Inuit, and contains both traditional and modern tools, implements and conveyances, as well as a wooden dory. There are no set opening hours, but during business hours theres
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Home Rule Government
The Home Rule Government has an art-decked corridor. Except on Fridays when its in session, you are free to poke your head into the little parliament chamber , though its polite to ask first at the parliament secretarys office (room 62). Theres not much to see, but a visit is more
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Uummannaq Museum
The excellent Uummannaq Museum is one of Greenlands better town museums and houses a diverse collection featuring displays on the Qilakitsoq mummies, the whaling era, the former marble quarry at Maarmorilik, and Greenlandic history and archaeology. Theres also a display on the ill-
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University Library
The University Library was established in 1747 as the New Herrnhut Mission (House of Moravian Brethren), originally set up by a trio of missionaries who arrived soon after Hans Egede. Its a most attractive red wooden building topped with bell-shaped campanile and set behind a fores
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Lyberth Charter
The cute 1859 cottage housing Lyberth Charter was the former Fortanderkabshuset (elders council chamber). Red with green stairs, it retains the bronze colony bell that once announced the start of work each morning. The copper ships lantern is a more recent addition, like the fake s
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Qaqortoq Museum
Qaqortoq Museum is housed in a tar-blackened 1804 building that was once the Julianehåb colony managers house. Today its most unique features are right up on the top floor. Beautifully restored, with churchlike décor and curious 1930s swing-out sink stands, these were once the town
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Emanuel A Petersen Art Museum
Greenlandic landscapes are on view at the Emanuel A Petersen Art Museum , where most of the works are by the eponymous Danish artist. Petersen (1894-1948) was a prolific painter, and during his career he made several trips to Greenland to paint its extraordinary landscape and light
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Qasigiannguit Museum
The Qasigiannguit Museum has an excellent collection of finds dating from the Saqqaq culture to the present Inuit culture. Fantastically well-preserved items recovered from excavations in Qeqertasussuk have a permanent home in the museum and give a detailed picture of life in Green
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Tele
On weekend afternoons its well worth visiting the Tele-Museum . It traces Greenlands role in the development of transatlantic communications and has such mechanical curiosities as 1900 telephone switching table which, although already archaic in Denmark, was sent for use in Nuuk in
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Paamiut Museum
A circle of five historic stone-and-timber buildings around a turf-ringed former wellhouse constitute Paamiut Museum . The 1839 former governors residence contains the main museum exhibition hall and tourist office. The old trading post has bubble-tar doors, a cooperage and a geolo
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Greenland National Museum
The spacious, well-presented Greenland National Museum is based in an extended 1936 warehouse. Its better exhibits include an interesting section on 1950s social change and a geological room emphasising that the worlds oldest rocks (3.8 billion years old) come from the Nuuk region.
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Ilulissat Kangerlua
The greatest tourist attraction in all of Greenland is the astonishing Ilulissat Kangerlua (Ilulissat Icefjord), a berg-packed bay fed by the 5km (3mi) wide and 1100m (3608ft) thick glacier Sermeq Kujalleq. The glacier flows an average of 25m (82ft) daily and is the worlds most pro
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