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The Varanger Sami Museum (, , VSM) is a museum for Mortensnes Cultural Heritage Site
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web exhibit on Sami mythology {{Coord, 70.1724, N, 28.5603, E, source:wikidata, display=title Museums in Finnmark History museums in Norway Sámi museums Sámi history Nesseby
The Varanger Sami Museum (, , VSM) is a museum for Sami
Acronyms
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culture and history in Varangerbotn
or is the administrative centre of Nesseby Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is located at the innermost part of the large Varangerfjorden. The village is located at the intersection of the European route E6 and European route E75 high ...
in Unjárga Municipality
or (also unofficially ''Uuniemi'' in Kven and Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varangerbotn. Other villages in Nesseby include Gandvik, Karlebotn, Nesseby, ...
in Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
.
The museum is working with the Sea Sami
A sea is a large body of salt water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections ...
history along Varangerfjord
The Varangerfjord (; ; ; ) is the easternmost fjord in Norway, north of Finland. The fjord is located in Finnmark county between the Varanger Peninsula and the mainland of Norway.
Extents
The fjord flows through the municipalities of Vardø ...
, Sami prehistory, and contemporary Sami culture. The museum was established in 1983, and has since 2012 been a part of the joint museum .
The main building was erected in 1994, inspired by traditional Sami architecture. The main building contains a basis exhibition, the children's room (the Stallo
In the folklore of the Sámi people, Sámi, a Stállo (also Staaloe, Stalo or Northern Sami language, Northern Sami Stállu) is a large, human-like creature who likes to eat people and who therefore is usually in some form of hostilities with a ...
's den) and temporary exhibitions. VSM is also maintaining the cultural landscape and the excavations at Mortensnes ().visitnorway.com
References
External links
Museum website
saivu.com
web exhibit on Sami mythology {{Coord, 70.1724, N, 28.5603, E, source:wikidata, display=title Museums in Finnmark History museums in Norway Sámi museums Sámi history Nesseby