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Nuuk Art Museum
Nuuk Kunstmuseum
	Location within Nuuk
Established	2005
Location	Nuuk, Greenland
Type	Art museum
Website	http://www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/

64°10′40″N 51°43′45″W / 64.177860°N 51.729216°W / 64.177860; -51.729216

Nuuk Art Museum (Danish: Nuuk Kunstmuseum) is a local museum in Greenland, located in Nuuk, the capital.^[1]^[2] The museum contains a notable collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics, figures in soapstone, ivory, and wood, with many items collected by the businessman Svend Junge.^[1] Of particular note is a collection of over 150 paintings by Emanuel A. Petersen.^[1]

Establishment

The museum was founded on 22 May 2005, occupying a former Seventh-day Adventist Church building in Kissarneqqortuunnguaq, Nuuk.^[3] The museum was donated to the citizens of the Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq (then Nuuk Municipality) by Svend and Helene Junge^[4]^[5] and inaugurated on 21 June 2007, Greenland National Day.^[6]

Nuuk Art Museum exhibits around 250 paintings, watercolors, photographs, drawings, graphics and paintings, as well as around 50 figures in bone, tusk, wood and soapstone. The museum is around 600m2 and includes an extension for changing exhibitions. The permanent collection includes an extensive selection of older art by European artists who have lived in Greenland for shorter or longer periods of time. These are artists such as Christine Deichmann (1869-1945), J.E.C. Rasmussen (1841-1893), Harald Moltke (1871-1960) and Emanuel A. Petersen (1894-1948). The permanent collection also includes recent works by Greenlandic artists such as Simon Kristoffersen (1933-1990), Miki Jacobsen (b. 1965), Buuti Pedersen (b. 1955), Hans Lynge (1906-1988), Anne-Birthe Hove (1951-2012) and Pia Arke (1958-2007).

The collection is set up with a focus on how Greenland has been viewed by outside artists and how local artists view Greenland. This provides an opportunity to look at the interplay between traditional and new expressions.

In recent years, the museum has worked on various projects that allow visitors to experience the highlights of the museum's permanent collection via an audio guide and explore the urban space with the museum's artwalk. In addition, educational material has been developed for several grade levels and high schools

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Nuuk Art Museum, Greenland.
^ Nuuk Art Museum, Greenland.com.
^ "The Art Museum of Nuuk." Greenland. Accessed November 5, 2012
^ Steffensen, Louise (2018-08-14). "Nuuk Kunstmuseum: The art of Greenland". Scan Magazine. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
^ "Nuuk Kunstmuseum". Nuuk Art Museum. Retrieved 10 January 2015. The Nuuk Kunstmuseum was inaugurated on Sunday 22 May 2005 in the old Adventist Church on Kissarneqqortuunnguaq 5 in Nuuk and the same day donated to the citizens of the Municipality of Nuuk, now Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq.
^ "Nuuk Kunstmuseum". Nuuk Art Museum. Retrieved 10 January 2015. with the donation was an exhibition department of approx. 205 m², this was completed and inaugurated on Greenland's National Day on 21 June 2007.