Arktikum
- Address
- Pohjoisranta 4
- Website
- Phone
- 016 322 3260
- Price
- adult/student/child/family €12/8/5/25
- Hours
- 9am-7pm mid-Jun–mid-Aug, 10am-6pm daily early Jun, late Aug & Dec, 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Sep-Nov, 10am-6pm Tue-Sun Jan-May
Lonely Planet review for Arktikum
With its beautifully designed glass tunnel stretching out to the Ounasjoki, Arktikum is one of Finland’s best museums and well worth the admission fee if you are interested in the north. There are two main exhibitions; one side deals with Lapland, with some information on Sámi culture, including both traditional and modern music, and a variety of costumes. There’s a display of canoes, dwellings and fishing materials, as well as a room devoted to the history of Rovaniemi itself. A scale model shows the destruction wrought by the German retreat in 1944.