Opening hours
1.6. – 30.9.
Everyday
9 – 18
1.10.2023 – 31.5.2024
Mon-Sat
10 – 17
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Tickets
Adults 15 €
Children 0-6 0 €
School children ages 7-17 7 €
Pensioners, students 13 €
Family ticket 30€
Contact information
Tel. +358 (0)400 898 212
Northern Lapland Nature Centre Metsähallitus
Tel. +358 (0)206 39 7740
Tel. +358 (0)40 700 6485
The Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida is located in the town of Inari, in the Sámi Homeland. The Sámi Museum and Northern Lapland Nature Centre are responsible for organizing activities at Siida. Our exhibitions and events give our visitors a window into the north: we provide information on the ancient and vibrant Sámi culture and on arctic nature.
The new exhibition ”Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These lands are our children” has opened on June 1st 2022.
We are Siida
The Sámi Museum
The Sámi Museum Siida is a national museum responsible for its special field, Sámi culture, and a regional museum responsible for tasks concerning cultural environments in the Sámi Area. We store the spiritual and material culture of the Finnish Sámi in our collections and display it in exhibitions and publications. Our main purpose is to support the identity and the...
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Nature Centre
Metsähallitus-maintained nature centres are diverse destinations and sources of diverse and interesting information on nature. We encourage people to be active and recharge in nature. Nature Centre Siida is the most northern nature centre maintained by Metsähallitus and we work in close cooperation with the Siida Sámi Museum.
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Permanent exhibition
Permanent exhibition
Our permanent exhibition links Sámi culture and northern nature to one another forming one whole, which offers a vivid and visual experience as well as an abundance of information. The Sámi Museum and the Nature Centre have worked together to produce the permanent exhibition.
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Open-Air Museum
Siida’s Open-Air Museum showcases the cultural heritage, architectural heritage and livelihoods of the Sámi in Finland
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Temporary exhibition
Outi Pieski: Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir—Return to Máttaráhkká
6.2.-24.9.2023
The ládjogahpir, a popular and striking Sámi women’s hat in the 18th and 19th centuries; forbidden, forgotten, and disappeared in the 19th and 20th centuries; revived and revitalised in the 21st century.
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Temporary exhibition
Capercaillie of the Taiga forests
19.1.–24.9.2023
The kingbird of the old forests, capercaillie, has always had a special place in the heart of Martti Rikkonen, who is a nature photographer from Inari. Capercaillie of the Taiga forests -exhibition takes the visitors to the lands and lek areas of the capercaillie. It shows the largest hen bird in our forests as the target of a nature photographer’s...
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Siida Shop
Siida Shop is a museum shop. The shop’s products related to Sámi culture and Lapland’s nature are the perfect items to add to your visit.
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Inari Tourist Information
The municipality of Inari’s tourist information point located in Nature Centre Siida provides up-to-date information to help you plan your visit to Inari.
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Restaurant Sarrit
Sarrit is a comfortable cafe/restaurant where you can recharge for a moment during your visit to our exhibitions.
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In celebration of the Sámi National Day, the Sámi Museum Siida opens its collection of traditional Sámi clothing in Finna
The launching of the collection provides an opportunity to study Sámi traditional clothing digitally no matter where you live.
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The Renewed Siida Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Received 55 000 Exhibition Visitors in the Opening Year
Year 2022 was unpredictable, eventful, and busy, in regards to exhibition visitors in Siida Sámi Museum and Nature Centre, especially in the summer and autumn. According to statistics Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida had 55 143 exhibition visitors in 2022, which is close to the all time record.
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Diverse art in the temporary exhibitions of the new Siida
The new and improved Siida‘s first temporary exhibitions are festive art exhibitions. Selected treasures of Sámi art collections as well as brand new paintings and lithographic works made with historical stone printing are on display. The temporary exhibitions of the Sámi Museum and the Northern Lapland Nature Centre Siida will open on Friday 3 June 2022. Come and experience some...
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Sámi Museum and Northern Lapland Nature Centre Siida invites everyone to celebrate in the opening week
The opening of the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida’s exhibition Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These lands are our children and the renovated Siida will be celebrated on Wednesday, 1 June 2022. On the inauguration day, Siida hosts an open house. Programmes connected with the new exhibition will be offered until Saturday, 4 June.
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Siida, located in Inari, has now been renovated and expanded to serve the increased activities and visitor numbers
Senate Properties, which is responsible for state facilities, has implemented an extensive renovation and expansion project at the Sámi Museum and Northern Lapland Nature Centre Siida in Inari. The extension was completed in spring 2021, and now the second phase of the project has been completed. It included, among other things, the renovation of workspaces and building services. The renovated...
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