Upernavik Museum

The Museum in Upernavik is the northernmost open-air museum in the world and the oldest in Greenland. It was founded in the early 1950s by the two Danes Andreas Lund Drosvad and Helge Knudsen. Main building of the museum is built in 1839 and old church with a tower of 1882. It was used until 1925 as a church and then to 1951 as a meeting place for the city council. After that, she served Lund Drosvad as an exhibition building for his private collection. Inside, the furnishings from the time of council meetings is obtained.

The museum also has a replica of a traditional Inuit winter hut of stones and turf and five buildings from the colonial era, in which many items - mostly hunting equipment - are shown, which were left to him by the people. In the old store an exhibition on kayaks and umiaks is shown. In the cooperage from 1848, an artist's apartment was furnished. Formerly the home of the colonial administrator is used for temporary exhibitions.