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The 10 Best Budget-friendly Things to do in Greenland, Greenland
Discover the best top things to do in Greenland, Greenland including Greenland National Museum and Archives, Katuaq Cultural Centre, Ilulissat Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Nanortalik Open Air Museum, Nuuk Cathedral, Ammassalik Museum, Kulusuk Museum, Ilulissat Museum, Kangerlussuaq Museum.
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1. Greenland National Museum and Archives
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 201 reviews
Greenland National Museum is Greenland's largest cultural history museum. The Museum preserves the Greenlandic history and our objects, art and images are from all over the country. A visit to the National Museum is a glimpse into all the cultures that have existed in the country from the earliest people to modern the Greenland society.
Reviewed By pmhoover - Columbia, United States
We spent maybe 90 minutes going through the museum. It is well worth the time. Won't repeat all the other reviews, but you will get a quick history lesson of the groups of people who have inhabited the island and some are surprising in time lines. The Norwegians actually settled in the south about the same time the Inuit did the north, but didn't stay. There were other earlier groups that did not stay. You get a feel for just now difficult and challenging simple survival was in Greenland. Exhibits are quite variable from taxidermy animals to modes of transportation. Fun fact - Nanook is the Inuit term for Polar Bear. Lots of other fascinating things to learn. Not big, simple but really well done.
2. Katuaq Cultural Centre
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 77 reviews
Reviewed By matthewsgalavants - Montreal, Canada
A stunning public space dedicated to local food, art and building community. If available, you must try the local greenlandic tapas at the restaurant inside. Wow!
3. Ilulissat Art Museum
4. Nuuk Art Museum
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4.5 based on 62 reviews
Nuuk Art Museum is approximately 600 m2 and holds a collection of roughly 300 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints. Featured in the museum’s collection is a widespread selection of older art primarily made by European traveling artists, including pieces by Emanuel A. Petersen (1894-1948), Harald Moltke (1871-1960), J.E.C. Rasmussen (1841-1893) and Christine Deichmann (1869-1945). It also holds newer works by Greenlandic artists such as Hans Lynge (1906-1988), Miki Jacobsen (b. 1965), Lisbeth Karline Poulsen (b. 1981) and Anne-Birthe Hove (1951-2012). The museum and the majority of the collection were a gift from Svend and Helene Junge. It was inaugurated in 2005 in a former Adventist church; an addition made specifically for changing exhibitions opened in 2007. The museum was later handed over to the municipality of Nuuk, now Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, which operates the museum today.
Reviewed By Savagetraveller007 - Kolhapur, India
Greenland, an autonomous nation within the Kingdom of Denmark, can truly be said to be a world apart. The population numbers less than 60,000 in this, the most sparsely populated country and the largest non-continental island on Earth. Icebergs and glaciers are the most famous features of the environment and its most impressive attractions for tourists. Colossal fantastic shapes of blue and white float on a sea of deepest azure. The inland ice, kilometers thick, appears static, but cracks and creaks as it shifts and expands. Bearing the climate in mind, transport here is somewhat unusual. There are virtually no roads between towns, so if you want to explore, it will be by boat, airplane, sled, or snowmobile. In fact, you'll find that some of the best things to do in Greenland are active ones: dog sledding, snowmobiling, hiking, walking on the ice cap, and traveling its waters by boat. Explore this fascinating land with the help of our list of the top tourist attractions in Greenland.
5. Nanortalik Open Air Museum
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4.5 based on 48 reviews
Reviewed By gailgN5011OC
Nanortalik, Greenland was one of the ports of call on our Holland America round-trip TransAtlantic cruise, and is an Inuit settlement. Anyway, as I viewed the landscape, I could appreciate how that landscape had been sculptured over hundreds of thousands of years......... by the movement of glacial ice........ice movement that essentially stripped away any pre-existing soil, ice movement that altered V-shaped valleys into U-shaped valleys, leaving a rounded landscape, with sharp, angular peaks and ridges where the rock was not covered by glaciers. Also, for those readers who may have an interest, the exposed rocks at Nanortalik are part of the geologic trend we in the USA refer to as the Appalachian Mountains. I was also fortunate to meet and talk with a grade school class, on a "field trip" from their school about 1/2 mile away. Some of the kids asked why I was looking at the rocks.....so we talked.
6. Nuuk Cathedral
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 48 reviews
Reviewed By ANGELINAG829 - Ballito, South Africa
When you hear the word cathedral, images of majestic soaring arches, marble, buttresses and grandeur come to mind. This cathedral is so quaint, capturing the essence of Greenland. The red wooden panels with the wooden church tower make this a unique cathedral. Inside it consists of white wooden panels, decorated with the local wild flowers. Nothing impressive, but worth a visit.
7. Ammassalik Museum
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4.5 based on 30 reviews
8. Kulusuk Museum
9. Ilulissat Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 128 reviews
10. Kangerlussuaq Museum
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4.0 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By NYnick1
I stopped in the museum to learn about the local history. It looks small from the outside l, but is big once you get inside. The museum has info from the early 1900s to present. Most of the museum is in Danish, but I would still recommend going. It contains a lot of artifacts and pictures of the area.
