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The European Museum of the Year award was presented today on May 4th in Portimão, Portugal, at the EMYA conference organized by the European Museum Forum.

Sámi Museum Siida is among the finalists for the European Museum of the Year Award 2024. The selection will be made at the European Museum of the Year Award conference in Portimão, Portugal, on May 4th. The five-day conference brings together experts and organizations in the museum sector from across Europe to discuss current challenges, societal significance, and impact.

The Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia is donating its Sámi objects to the Sámi Museum Siida.

The Sámi Museum and Northern Lapland Nature Centra Siida had a little over 68 000 exhibition visitors in 2023. Visitor numbers are back to, and even past, pre-covid numbers.

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.