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Sisimiut Museum

Sisimiut Museum is a museum in , . Located in a historical building near the harbour, specialises in Greenlandic trade, industry and shipping, with artifacts based on ten years of archaeological research and excavations of the ancient Saqqaq culture settlements near the town, offering an insight into the culture of the region of 4,000 years ago.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: History museum in Sisimiut, Greenland
  • Also known as: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Blue Church in Sisimiut and Zion Church in Sisimiut.

Church
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.

Church
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.

Theater building
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a in , a town in western , the second-largest town in the country. Located in the eastern part of Sisimiut, on the shore of the small Nalunnguarfik lake, Taseralik is the second such centre in Greenland, after Katuaq in , the capital. is situated 1 km east of Sisimiut Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sisimiut.

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, also known by its Danish name Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.

Sisimiut Museum

Latitude
66.93846° or 66° 56′ 19″ north
Longitude
-53.67072° or 53° 40′ 15″ west
Open location code
98R8W8QH+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 181845586
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q7530814
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In Other Languages

From Bavarian to Swedish—“Sisimiut Museum” goes by many names.
  • Bavarian: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • Bavarian: “Sisimiut-Museum”
  • Danish: “Sisimiut Museum”
  • Dutch: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • French: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • German: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • German: “Sisimiut Museum”
  • German: “Sisimiut-Museum”
  • Italian: “Museo di Sisimiut”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • Polish: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • Polish: “Sisimiut Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej Sisimiuta”
  • Slovenian: “Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat”
  • Slovenian: “Sisimiut Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Sisimiut”
  • Swedish: “Sisimiut museum”

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Highlights include Frederik den IX’s Plads and Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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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 “Sisimiut Museum”. Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.