A must for summer visitors to Finnish Lapland.

This excellent museum is located in the small village of Inari in northern eastern Lapland. SIIDA exhibitions show how nature and the indigenous people, the Sami, have adapted to life in these extreme northern conditions.

The centre is home to the Sami Museum and the Northern Lapland Nature Centre who have combined their skills to present an interesting and informative exhibition about the northern seasonal cycle and the evolution of the region from the Ice age to the present.

During summer old Sami dwellings are on show in the adjoining open air museum.

As well as the permanent exhibition the museum has several one off seasonal exhibitions on throughout the year.

One of this years most popular is People of the North.

People in the North 01 June – 31 Oct 2007
Through photographic material and documents, the exhibition introduces the audience to the colonization of the northern areas. The focus is on photographs taken by explorers, anthropologists and ethnographers as well as on their accounts of their journeys to the North in the 1800s and the early 1900s. The exhibition has been produced bŧ Bildmuseet, a museum which specializes in photographic art in Umeå, Sweden. The Inari Sámi Museum has complemented the exhibition with material from Finnish archives and collections.
Arranged by: Inari Sámi Museum

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