Nanortalik Outdoor Museum

Nanortalik Outdoor Museum is a History Museum in Greenland

The Nanortalik Outdoor Museum is an open-air museum in the old harbour quarter of Nanortalik, the southernmost town in Greenland. A cluster of preserved timber and turf buildings, among the oldest in the country, has been gathered here to show how people lived in the colonial era and before, from a smithy and warehouses to traditional Inuit dwellings. A vivid window onto South Greenland's past, in a town whose name means the place of polar bears.

Where to find Nanortalik Outdoor Museum?

60°8'10"N, 45°14'45"W

Aurora hunting in Qaqortoq?

The aurora season here runs from September to April, with the best chances of seeing the Northern Lights in October, November, February and March. Nanortalik Outdoor Museum makes for a great daytime activity while you wait for darkness and the aurora.

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