Welcome to Nordlandsmuseet . Here you can experience Northern Norwegian culture and history from mountains to coast. Explore our museums and find activities and exhibitions throughout Salten.
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Bodø Biennale: Performance Studies in Sápmi
Performance Studies in Sápmi is a festival for politically engaged performance art, initiated in 2024 as part of Marija Griniuk's postdoctoral research on the curation of politically charged performance art. The 2026 edition focuses on meetings between different generations of performance artists and researchers working on political performance and Sámi contexts.
Welcome to Fauske Folk Museum in Public Health Week! This will be the last opportunity to see the exhibition “Fine people and fine hats”. Ticket prices have been reduced this week.
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Nordlandsmuseet is a proud partner this year and is contributing with a program day at the City Museum in Bodø under Bodø Biennale 2026. In addition, the biennale's outdoor dance performance Anima Choir and outdoor performance ENE will be shown at The Jekt Trade Museum .
The Nordland Collection Network invites speakers to a professional seminar on the storage and reorganization of museum collections on March 9-10, 2027 in Bodø . Deadline for abstract submission September 30, 2026.
In a week it will break out again Hamarøy with the cultural festival The Hamsun Days . This year's festival, which has the subtitle "The Ring is Over", has a packed program that will both challenge and embrace the audience in the very best way!
Nordlandsmuseet has received a grant from the Arts Council of Norway's trainee scheme to hire a full-time trainee. From 1 January 2027, Irena Hishchynska will take on the role to strengthen the collection work.
Every year receives Nordlandsmuseet inquiries from people who want to donate objects, photographs or other objects to our collections. Such gifts are valuable, they can fill gaps in the story we tell, or supplement what we already have.
On 28 and 29 June, Performance Studies in Sápmi brought together artists, researchers and performance artists from Sápmi, Norway, Finland, the USA and Lithuania in Bodø The festival was initiated in 2024 by Marija Griniuk, department head in Nordlandsmuseet , as part of her postdoctoral research on political performance art.
Nordlandsmuseet has activities for children at most of our facilities throughout the summer. Here's what awaits you and your family this summer.
Are you going on holiday in Salten this summer? Here is inspiration for what you can experience at the Nordlandsmuseet facilities, grouped by themes and experiences.
Little did Lars Larsen know when he came over the mountains from Sweden that his new home in Norway would become a cultural monument and museum. Little did he know that the small living room would one day be visited by thousands of people – from schoolchildren to the Crown Prince and Princess themselves.
From 8 to 12 June, Head of Department Marija Griniuk, Head of Communication Magnus Sivertsen Sørvig and Museum Director Barbro Laxaa presented a research paper at the Design Research Society conference (DRS 2026) in Edinburgh. DRS is an international organisation that promotes research in education, art and practice, and the conference brings together academics, practitioners and researchers from all over the world.
Kjerringoy trading post is one of Norway's best preserved trading posts from the 19th century. You can cycle here from Bodø city center in one day, through one of the region's most beautiful coastal landscapes.
Via Querinissima is officially certified as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. This means that The Jekt Trade Museum in Bodø is now part of a European cultural network that stretches from Venice to Northern Norway.
May 18 is International Museum Day, and this year the day is about how museums can build bridges between people across culture, society and geography. Nordlandsmuseet marks the day with a 50% discount on entrance tickets at Kjerringøy trading post , City Museum in Bodø and The Jekt Trade Museum from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd May.
From May 13th you can once again take the original mining locomotive 1.6 kilometers into Sulitjelma Mountain. Sulitjelma Visitor Mine opens for a new season, and experienced mining guides are ready to share stories about life as a miner in the 1900s.
In June, academics, artists, social actors, local residents and researchers will gather at Røst and in Bodø to explore the concept of "hospitality." A project inspired by a story from the 15th century.
Marija Griniuk, Head of Department South at Nordlandsmuseet , has published a scientific article in the international journal The International Journal of the Arts in Society . The article was published on March 26, 2026 and is based on the work on the exhibition First Strike City at the City Museum in Bodø .
From March 28 to April 4, the market is open every day from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM with a café and a stall. A week of activities for all ages awaits you, from candle casting and egg painting to music quizzes, historical tours and family Easter. Keep an eye out for the Easter eggs hidden around the area. Count all the ones you find and compete for prizes.
Mengyao Xia is a PhD student in social design at Kyushu University in Japan. Her research explores aesthetic democracy and material-based participatory methods in AI-mediated visual culture. During her stay at the City Museum in Bodø As a guest curator, she has worked practically in the exhibition room with map material related to Hans Ragnar Mathisen, and describes the experience as an important meeting between theory and practice.
Museum educators Eirin Edvardsen and Lasse Frøsgård have been touring schools and kindergartens in recent weeks with the performance “How the Reindeer Got Blue Claws”.
A meeting at a seminar during the Insomnia festival in Tromsø was the starting point for a long-term collaboration between artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen and Taiwanese, Tromsø-based artist Lin Pei-Han. Now the collaboration is highlighted in connection with the exhibition Chronology of Urgencies at the City Museum in Bodø .
Nordlandsmuseet is looking for mediators and summer hosts for several of our museums in the summer season 2026. The position is suitable for those who enjoy working with people, mediation and the public, and who want a summer job in a historical setting.
Nordlandsmuseet has museum facilities in all of Salten's nine municipalities - Bodø , Fauske , Saltdal , Sørfold , Steigen , Hamarøy , Beiarn , Gildeskål and Meløy What they all have in common is that they collect, preserve, research and communicate Salten's 10,000-year history.
To make this diversity more accessible, we offer Nordlandsmuseet Now, annual passes give you free access to our facilities. With annual passes, you can explore the full breadth of our cultural heritage, at your own pace and throughout the year.
Nordlandsmuseet has hired Monica Celius as the new director of the Hamsun Center in Hamarøy – a center dedicated to the life and writings of Knut Hamsun. Since its opening in 2009, the Hamsun Center has established itself as a significant cultural institution, both nationally and internationally.
Story of the month
In the collection after Gustav Moldjord at Beiarn Folk Museum stands an instrument that at first glance may seem unremarkable. A narrow, oblong wooden box, just over a meter long, with a fingerboard with transverse bands that mark the notes. The single gut string that was supposed to be strung across the fingerboard is worn out.
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Do you have an object, photo or something else you would like to donate to the Nordlandsmuseet collection? Please contact us and send us information about the gift offer.
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Several groups have free regular admission to 19 of Nordlandsmuseet's facilities, including children under 18 years of age .
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Experience our museum facilities at your own pace – all year round with one annual pass.
About the Nordlandsmuseet
The Nordlandsmuseet Foundation collects, preserves, researches and exhibits Salten's 10,000-year history. We work to preserve cultural monuments, physical environments, objects, written sources, images and oral tradition, and make our collection available for everyone.
We manage 20 museum facilities spread over 140 buildings, around 50,000 objects, approximately 280,000 photos and 400 metres of shelving with archives. The museums are located in all nine municipalities of Salten: Bodø , Fauske , Saltdal , Sørfold , Steigen , Hamarøy , Beiarn , Gildeskål and Meløy .