The doctoral dissertation that Sámi researcher Áile Aikio has submitted to the University of Lapland deals with the Sámi museum and the Sámification of the museum. Aikio’s dissertation The Sámi Museum? A Research on the Ontological Politics of Sámi Cultural Heritage will be examined at the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida in Inari on Friday, December 8, 2023.
Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida’s new joint main exhibition Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These lands are our children was opened June 1st, 2022. Now in a little over a year, the exhibition has been seen by over 100 000 people!
Siida will be closed for maintenance at the end of October and beginning of May every year. The upcoming maintenance breaks are: Oct 29th to Nov 1st 2023 May 5th to May 8th 2024 Oct 27th to Oct 30th 2024 May 4th to May 7th 2025 Nov 2nd to Nov 5th 2025
Our Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These lands are our children exhibition is close to one year old now. The past year has been busy, as our exhibition has been seen by 65 000 visitors. Before the busy summer season, it is time for maintenance work in the joint permanent exhibition of Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida. At the same time we will do maintenance in the public areas.
The launching of the collection provides an opportunity to study Sámi traditional clothing digitally no matter where you live.
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.
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 stunning and impressive art.
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.
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 Siida will open to the public in June of 2022.
The last Sámi remains excavated from cemeteries in the Sámi homeland will be reburied in Inari and Utsjoki after the Sámi Church Days on 7–8 August. The deceased were laid to rest with funeral rites at the time of their burial, and the reburials will take place in a church ceremony following the order for the burial of the dead. The remains have been stored at the Sámi Museum Siida since 2001.
