Museum of the Year 2024 Celebration at Siida!

Sámi Museum Siida was chosen as the European Museum of the Year 2024 at the beginning of May at the European Museum Forum’s EMYA conference in Portugal.

After this, the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida was also chosen as the Museum of the Year 2024 by the Finnish Museums Association and ICOM Finland!

We thank the entire Sámi community, and everyone involved in the preparation of the exhibition – this achievement is due to our good cooperation!

We want to celebrate this achievement together on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.

9 AM – 6 PM Free entry to Siida’s exhibitions

Seminar Program:

10:00 AM Welcome to the Museum of the Year celebration!

Museum Director Taina Máret Pieski

10:10 AM Creating the Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These Lands Are Our Children Exhibition

Emeritus Professor, scriptwriter of the Sámi Museum exhibition Veli-Pekka Lehtola

Specialist in recreational use, project manager of the Nature Centre exhibition Kirsi Ukkonen, Upper Lapland Nature Center

11:00 AM From Sámi to Sámi – Panel Discussion

Emeritus Professor Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Curator Eija Ojanlatva, Curator Anni Guttorm, Curatorial Assistant Marjo-Riitta Rantamäki, and Community Work Coordinator Pia Nikula. The discussion will be moderated by Marketing Coordinator Taija Aikio.

11:45 AM Closing remarks and presentation of the day’s other program

Marketing Coordinator Taija Aikio

The seminar will be held in Siida’s Auditorium. It will also be possible to follow the seminar on Siida’s YouTube channel.

1 PM – 3 PM Cake and coffee in Restaurant Sarrit (for the first 150 attendees)

1 PM – 4 PM Siida’s staff will be available in the exhibitions and the open-air museum at Mirhamintupa. Come and ask the experts about archaeology, artifacts, technology, and content.

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Bures boahtin! Welcome!

Sámi Museum invites you to visit the recently awarded EMYA 2024 European Museum of the Year!

Sámi National Day program in Siida

Tuesday 6th February 2024

Free entry to Siida 9am – 5pm

9.15 Flag raising, Siida’s front yard.

11am So many kin in my heart – Aune Huhtamella’s life’s work, introduction of the exhibition.

3pm So many kin in my heart – Aune Huhtamella’s life’s work, introduction of the exhibition.

Siida’s new temporary exhibition, So many kin in my heart – Aune Huhtamella’s life’s work, opens to the public on Tuesday, February 6th 2024. The exhibition was produced by Sami Museum Siida. Sigga-Marja Magga, the co-writer of the exhibition, introduces to it to the public.

National Day cake and coffees at Restaurant Sarrit 8e/person.

Advisor Victoria Gonzalez from NIBIO research institute will introduce the brown bear as a species. She will also present how the brown bears are managed with the help of DNA-analyses in Norway.

DNA is the molecule inside cells that contains the genetic information responsible for the development and function of an organism. DNA molecules allow this information to be passed from one generation to the next.

NIBIO is one of the largest research institutes in Norway. They contribute to food security and safety, sustainable resource management, innovation and value creation through research and knowledge production. NIBIO has a high technology DNA laboratory in the village of Svanvik in Norway.

Before the lecture to the public Victoria Gonzalez will run a bear DNA-laboratory workshop for the upper level pupils from Inari and Sevettijärvi schools.

The presentation will be held in English.

Tickets 8€/adults, free entrance for children under 18 years.

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. Siida will be open for the public throughout the week despite special theme days and invited groups visiting the house. All visitors are welcome to Siida.

The programme of the opening week, with updates, is available here and on social media. We retain the right to changes in the programme. Siida’s museum shop SiidaShop serves the public in the renovated facilities during Siida’s opening hours and as an online store at www.siidashop.fi. There will be opening bargains and new products starting on 1 June. Restaurant Sarrit serves the public in the opening week too.

Further information:

Pia Nikula, Inauguration Coordinator, +358 40 621 2663, pia.nikula(at)samimuseum.fi. fi

Programme

Wednesday 1 June

10:00–16:00 Inauguration, open house

10:00 Opening of the exhibition Enâmeh láá mii párnááh – These lands are our children

11:00 Music Hour: Wimme

Noon Meeting with the exhibition experts and artists at the exhibition

13:00 Music Hour: Čaʹppesrääʹstes

14:00 Meeting with the exhibition experts and artists at the exhibition

15:00 Music Hour: Satu Aikio

16:00 Exhibition and Open-Air Museum close

16:30 Customer Service and SiidaShop close

10:00–18:00 Restaurant Sarrit open

18:00–21:00 Visit for invited guests

Thursday 2 June

9:00–18:00 Siida is open

Children’s and Young People’s Day: Programme on special themes for groups with a booking

Friday 3 June

9:00–18:00 Siida is open

Senior Citizens’ Day: Programme on special themes for groups with a booking

17:30–19:00 Siida’s auditorium, book release of Veli-Pekka Lehtola’s Entiset elävät meissä: Saamelaisten historiat ja Suomi (“The past lives in us: Sámi histories and Finland”). Open for everybody.

Saturday 4 June

9:00–18:00 Siida is open

11:00 Meeting with the exhibition experts in the exhibition

13:00 Meeting with the exhibition experts in the exhibition

15:00 Meeting with the exhibition experts in the exhibition

During this exceptional year our legendary Open-Air museum is also a place for different events and exhibitions.

June 

From Monday June the 14th, a museum hostess is present in the Open-Air Museum every week Mon–Fri, 11:00–12:00 and 15:00–16:00, until the end of August. (Exception: Midsummer’s Eve 25.6.) Changes are possible.

The barn has been made into an exhibition site again after 20 years! The Zero Arctic exhibition deals with a research project that examined how to benefit from traditional knowledge and the ideas of traditional construction in designing climate-friendly buildings.

July 

Our customers have a chance of participating in a guided tour of the Open-Air museum every Wednesday and Friday on weeks 29-31 at 11:00.
Wed July 21st
Fri July 23rd
Wed July 28th
Fri July 30th
Wed Aug 4th
Fri Aug 6th
The tour is included in the entrance ticket. Primary language: Finnish.

The museum hostess is not available between July 26th and August 6th.

August 

The arqueologist Juha-Pekka Joona tells about the Trap Trail in the hunting area of the museum at 11:00 and 15:00, in place of the museum hostess. Primary language: Finnish

A series of virtual events will start in August and continue through the rest of the year.

September

A continuous work demonstration:  Repair of Mirhamintupa 

The European Heritage Days start on 6 September with the theme “Withour Borders”. 

Celebrating the return of artefacts: The repatriation of the Sámi Collection of the National Museum of Finland.  Free entrance.

We celebrate the opening of the summer season at the Sami museum and Nature center Siida on Thursday June the 6th.

During this exceptional year our legendary Open-Air museum is also a place for different events and exhibitions. On the Opening day the staff of Siida and a singing hostess will be present at the Open-Air museum, to tell the customers about the changes.

The temporary Siida Shop is as dashing as ever! A 10% discount on all products on the opening day.

The café-restaurant Sarrit in the brand new restaurant wing is a must see. Opening day offer: delicious Brita cake with a cup of coffee (6€).

Welcome to start the summer season with us! The event is included in the price of the entrance ticket.

The Sámi Museum Siida’s temporary photograph exhibition “Albma olbmot – The Real People” displays Pekka Sammallahti’s black-and-white portraits of people living in the north, showing them in their everyday surroundings. The time span is seven decades, starting from the 1960s. The exhibition focuses on people living on the Teno River and its river system, but there are also portraits from Inari, Enontekiö, Sodankylä, Kaaresuvanto, Gällivare and the Varanger and Alta fjords, etc. The title reflects the rather common custom of indigenous peoples of calling themselves the real people.

The exhibition has been curated by Marja Helander. Helander is a renowned photographic artist, who has also created short films in the past few years. The exhibition has been produced by the Sámi Museum Siida.

The exhibition “Albma olbmot – The Real People” by Pekka Sammallahti is displayed at the Sámi Museum Siida in Inari 23.6.2020–31.3.2021. In the summer season, Siida is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Siida is once again a part of the annual Skabmagovat filmfestival.

For additional information and latest news Skábmagovat.fi

Siida is once again a part of the annual Skábmagovat filmfestival.

For additional information and latest news please visit Skabmagovat.fi.