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Sør-Troms Museum
The Sør-Troms Museum is located in the municipalities of Salangen, Kvæfjord, Tjeldsund, Lavangen, Ibestad and Harstad, and consists of small and large museums throughout the region - from village gardens to museums of national and international importance.
18 attractions offer countless stories and unforgettable experiences. We are responsible for 47 antiquarian buildings, 55 historic boats on land, a floating protected sailing ship and an extensive collection of over 47,000 art and cultural history objects, over 60,000 photographs and around 10,000 maps and drawings. The museum also manages extensive archive and source collections, one technical-industrial facility and 200 acres of protected cultural landscape.
The museum has four departments:
• The regional museum is the largest department with facilities, objects, photos and archives in the municipalities of Salangen, Kvæfjord, Tjeldsund, Lavangen, Ibestad and Harstad. Here there are e.g. a herring oil factory, a trading post, a power station, a cluster farm and several cultural trails.
• The schooner Anna Rogde, built in 1868, is a national maritime cultural treasure. The ship was protected by the National Antiquities in 1989 and is a unifying symbol of northern Norwegian coastal culture and maritime tradition.
• Trastad Collections, with Outsider Art, is the country's first museum for the history of the developmentally disabled after the Second World War. The museum opened in the summer of 1996. Here, a unique story is conveyed about how so-called "disabled people" developed through art. Trastad Galleri opened in 2000. The collection consists of two elements: a collection of art made by residents of Trastad Gård, as well as a national and international collection of "Outsider Art".
• Trondenes Historiske Senter is located in a historic cultural landscape just outside the center of Harstad. The museum's main exhibition deals with history from the Stone Age to modern times, with the main emphasis on the Viking Age, the Middle Ages and the sad history of the Second World War. Outside the center is the Trondenes Middelaldergård. On the farm there is a barn, a stave church, fields, a forge and everything that belonged to a northern Norwegian farm around the year 1200. Thus, we have an outstanding center for the dissemination of Norwegian medieval history at the museum, which is based on written sources and archaeological finds.