Upernavik Museum
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Upernavik Museum is a museum in Upernavik
, a town in northwestern Greenland
. It is the oldest museum in Greenland, holding an extensive collection of local art. It has its own Museum Board that selects the artists, after recommendation from the curator of the museum.
Upernavik
Upernavik is a small town in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name. With 1,129 inhabitants as of 2010, it is the thirteenth-largest town in Greenland. Due to the small size of the settlement, everything is within walking distance...
, a town in northwestern Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
. It is the oldest museum in Greenland, holding an extensive collection of local art. It has its own Museum Board that selects the artists, after recommendation from the curator of the museum.