Sights in Karasjok
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Sami Parliament
The Sami Parliament was established in 1989. In 2000 it moved into a glorious new building, encased in mellow Siberian wood, with a birch, pine and oak interior. The main assembly hall is shaped like a Sami tent, and the Sami library, lit with tiny lights like stars, houses over 35,000 volumes, plus other media. From late June to mid-August, there are 30-minute tours leaving hourly between 8.30am and 2.30pm (except 11.30am), Monday to Friday. The rest of the year, tours are at 1.30pm on weekdays.
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Sami National Museum
The Sami National Museum is also called the Sami Collection. Smaller and more serious, it’s been rather upstaged by the genial razzmatazz down the road. Devoted to Sami history and culture, it has displays of colourful, traditional Sami clothing, a bewildering array of tools and artefacts and works by contemporary Sami artists. Outdoors, a homestead reveals the simplicity of traditional Sami life. Signing is only in Norwegian and Sami and the English guide sheet is difficult to follow.
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Theme Park
Sami culture is big business here, and it was only a matter of time before it was consolidated into a theme park. There’s a wistful, high-tech multimedia introduction to the Sami in the ‘Magic Theatre’, plus Sami winter and summer camps and other dwellings in the grounds, and of course, a gift shop and café. It’s actually very good and presents the Sami as the normal fellow human beings they are rather than as exotic anachronisms.
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Gallery
This dynamic gallery mounts temporary exhibitions by contemporary Sami artists and is well worth the short journey to the limits of town.
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