Qaqortoq Museum

The delightful museum exhibits old Inuit boats and equipment, national dresses, and Norse artifacts. See also tributes to Charles Lindberg and Knud Rasmussen!

Qaqortoq Museum is located close to the main fountain square in one of the oldest buildings of the town, the former Royal Greenland Trading Department which dates from 1804. The museum exhibits old Inuit boats, hunting equipment, national dresses and Norse artifacts. Among the permanent exibits you find relics from the Dorset culture, the Thule culture, and the Norse culture. They all have their separate, permanent exhibits. One of the features is the reconstructed "red room" and "blue room", where polar explorer Knud Rasmussen and the aviator Charles Lindberg have slept. Much of the Inuit culture can be seen around this area along with the old brewery and the old meeting hall.