Gallery of the Midnight Sun

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Gallery of the Midnight Sun is an Art Gallery at 5005 Bryson Dr, Yellowknife NT X1A 2A3, Canada

The Gallery of the Midnight Sun is a well-known art gallery and shop in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is one of the city’s best places to find northern and Indigenous art. Inside, the shelves and walls are crowded with Inuit soapstone carvings, prints, beadwork, jewellery, Dene crafts and hand-made souvenirs, gathered from artists across the far north. The gallery takes its name from the midnight sun, that stretch of high summer when, this far north, the sun never fully sets. Its other half is the aurora, and the shop is a good place to pick up prints, photographs and paintings of the northern lights. That is fitting, because Yellowknife is one of the premier aurora cities in the world, located almost directly beneath the auroral oval. Warm your hands over the artwork here by day, then head out of town after dark to see the real thing wheeling overhead.

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Where to find Gallery of the Midnight Sun?

62°27'42"N, 114°21'10"W

Aurora hunting in Yellowknife?

The aurora season here runs from August to April, with the best chances of seeing the Northern Lights in September, October, February and March. Visit Gallery of the Midnight Sun during the day and save the evenings for chasing the Northern Lights.

What do people think of Gallery of the Midnight Sun?

  • Interesting selection of local art

    Chris P19 July 2017

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