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Exhipitions
Exhibions at Qasigiannguit museum
Qasigiannguit museum consists of five buildings with different exhibitions. The buildings are B3, B4, (the house of Poul Egede), B8, B 186 and the old traditional Greenlandic house of peat and stone.
B-3:
In B3 you can see a permanent exhibition of different costumes and weapons from historic age. You can for example see women's costumes from West and North Greenland. There is also a smaller collection of stuffed artic birds. Part of the colony Christianshaab is also illustrated in this building. Here you will also find the museum administration, kiosk and mini café. At the kiosk you can buy books, souvenirs, crafts, post-cards etc.

B-4:
B4 (house of Poul Egede) is the second oldest house in Greenland. After extensive renovation this beautiful store building officially opened during the towns culture week in 1997. Inside B4 museum visitors can enjoy the permanent exhibition of the find of settlement Qeqertasussuk at the southeast bay. The settlement dates back to the 4500 years old Saqqaq culture, which represents mans first settlement in West Greenland. At the exhibition you can see the fantastic well preserved original objects of the Saqqaq culture:

A section of the metre deep dunghill deposit in is which the will preserved objects were found.
Stone knifes with wood handles, harpoons of bone, needles of bird bones.
The worlds oldest kamik.
The exhibition also holds a reconstruction of one of the ruins.
B-8:
B-8 houses different travelling exhibitions and here the townsmen the opportunity to participate in events like the Easter exhibition.
Peat house (Illunnguaq):
In connection with Qasigiannguit's culture week in 1997, young people from "Kissaviarsukkut" the young club "Aningaaq" build a peat house assisted by Jens Josenius. The peat house was later given to Qasigiannguit Museum.

The interior of the peat house is provided by Qasigiannguit Museum, by the residential home, by the club for elderly people, and by the club for women. An attempt has been made to reconstruct the interior as it might have been before the Second World War.
The peat house is both a pleasure and a pride to the locals. It is a way to promote the traditional home of our ancestors to nationalities from all over the world.

To spend a night at the peat house, please contact Qasigiannguit Museum.

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