Arktikum Science Museum

Arktikum is a museum in the center of Rovaniemi, Finland.

The externally visible from afar glass vault, showing like a finger in the direction of north, is only the outward -emergent core of the museum. Arktikum actually consists of two institutions, the Provincial Museum of Lapland and the Arctic Centre.

The Arctic Centre

In the Arctic Centre, the Institute for the Northern environment and minority rights are housed. This turns his attention to the study of the rights of indigenous peoples, such as the right to their own language and culture.

The Arctic Centre also provides an information service. This facility provides information on Arctic areas. In addition, the information service in the creation of an information network of the Barents region interacts with, as well as in the creation of a network that covers the entire polar regions.

The organization Finnbarents is an organization of professionals that are specialized in their work on the regions of the north, particularly north-west Russia, but also to other areas of Russia and the Baltics.

The Provincial Museum of Lapland

The Provincial Museum of Lapland proudly presents the exhibition Paths of the North against the peoples of the North and tells the story of Lapland. Impressions from the Sami culture exhibits convey both the Sami handicrafts, as well as the costumes of the seeds, which are exhibited here. The museum presents changing exhibitions. Reference is made ​​to life in total Lapland, but also on the lives of the people of the seeds in Lapland.