Northern Norway » The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and North-Troms

During the last months of the Second World War most of Finnmark and northern Troms was totally destroyed and the population forced to evacuate. The museum is a monument to man’s ability to overcome the destruction of war and to create a new future. The museum utilises modern effects in its exhibition.

Through pictures, film, sound and text we give you an insight into culture in Finnmark and northern Troms before and after the Second World War. We want to give you an impression of how life was for some of the evacuees and refugees, and how optimism characterised the rebuilding phase.

Visitors can walk in to an authentic refugee cave, a barrack kitchen and a post-war permanent house.We have written exhibition guides in Norwegian, Sami, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Finnish languages. In our cafe we can offer hot and cold drinks, cakes, sweets and freshly made waffles. You can also

buy souvenirs in our old style museum shop.