The Sámi Museum in Karasjok: A Story of Resistance

Abstract

In Karasjok, on the Norwegian side of Sápmi, there is a cultural-historical museum, Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (SVD) (The Sámi Museum), and an art collection comprising 1,400 works of art. The museum building was completed in 1972. Different ideas for an art museum in connection to the SVD building have existed since the 1980s, but for various reasons no plans for an art museum have so far come to fruition after many years of deliberation.