Svalbard Museum
The Svalbard Museum is a museum in Longyearbyen, the largest town in the Svalbard archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Norway
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include North Pole Expedition Museum and Longyearbyen Hospital.
North Pole Expedition Museum
Museum
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The North Pole Expedition Museum is a museum located on the island of Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. North Pole Expedition Museum is situated 110 metres north of Svalbard Museum.
Longyearbyen Hospital
Hospital
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Longyearbyen Hospital is situated 310 metres southwest of Svalbard Museum.
Svalbard Church
Church
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Svalbard Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Svalbard municipality in Norway. It is located in the village of Longyearbyen. It is the church for the Svalbard parish which is part of the Tromsø domprosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. Svalbard Church is situated 1 km west of Svalbard Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longyearbyen and Nybyen.
Longyearbyen
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Longyearbyen, is the largest populated area, and capital of the Norwegian region of Svalbard. The settlement is generally regarded as the northernmost town in the world as well as the most easily accessed frontier in the Arctic, and is an ideal base for the greater exploration of Svalbard and the high Arctic.
Nybyen
Suburb
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Nybyen is a small settlement located on the southern outskirts of Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. The name is Norwegian and translates as The New Town. Nybyen is situated 3 km southwest of Svalbard Museum.
Svalbard Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
78.22238° or 78° 13′ 21″ northLongitude
15.65231° or 15° 39′ 8″ eastOpen location code
CFCQ6MC2+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3526633670OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q1327658
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Svalbard Museum” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Svalbard Museum”
- Danish: “Svalbard Museum”
- Dutch: “Svalbard Museum”
- French: “Svalbard Museum”
- German: “Svalbard Museum”
- Italian: “Svalbard Museum”
- Japanese: “スバールバル博物館”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Svalbard museum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svalbard museum”
- Norwegian: “Svalbard museum”
- Spanish: “Svalbard Museum”
- Swedish: “Svalbard museum”
- Ukrainian: “Свальбардський музей”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include University Centre in Svalbard and Svalbard Folkehøgskole.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Svalbard Museum”. Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.