Special exhibitions

Every year Greenland National Museum has a series of temporary exhibitions presenting the cultural heritage of the country. Here you can read more about this year’s current and future exhibitions.

6th April 2024 - 18th August 2024

Expedition Relics

For over a century, there was a great interest in organizing expeditions to Greenland. Several episodes mark history, many ending in tragedy and failure. The evidence of these expeditions along Avannaarsua is reflected in the objects left behind by 19 expeditions carried out between 1853 and 1934. Relics are exhibited.

Visit the exhibition and learn about the relics. The exhibition will be available from April 6^thuntil August 18^th, 2024, at the museum.

If you are prevented from visiting the exhibition, you still have the opportunity to viewing the content through a digitized exhibition:

Digitized exhibition

22nd september 2023 - 26th february 2024

NORDAFAR

NORDAFAR, a historical fishing port in West Greenland. NORDAFAR was established in 1953 and closed in 1985. The port welcomed fishermen from Norway, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Greenland, as well as ships from European countries. NORDAFAR has been a place full of with life - you have now the opportunity to step into an exhibition that offers a glimpse of everything that made NORDAFAR a unique place, told through the lens of four selected buildings.

Visit the exhibition and learn about the port through abandoned buildings. The exhibition will be available from September 22nd until February 26th, 2024, at the museum.

If you are prevented from visiting the exhibition, you still have the opportunity to viewing the content through a digitized exhibition:

Digitized exhibition

Exhibition

The cabins speak...

On Greenland’s East coast there are historical cabins and stations scattered throughout the national park.

National Museum open a special exhibition about the cabins. Hunting lodges that were established between the year 1908-1960 store stories about the Trapper Era, the Struggle for Sovereignty in Northeast Greenland, World War II.

Visit the exhibition and get to know the stories.

The exhibition will be available until September 2023.

If you are prevented from visiting the exhibition, you still have the opportunity to viewing the content through a digitized exhibition:

Visit the digitized exhibition