The Polar Museum features an exhibit on the arctic regions, with emphasis on the life of trapper Hilmar Nøis. The museum also has an exhibit that provides insight into the unique geology of Andøy.

The Museum in Bø is beautifully located by the sea, in a landscape where fairytale characters still are alive. The female "hulder" and the "draugen", a creature living in the sea are to be seen by tho...

The Omd turf museum
Parts of the cottage were built in about 1826 and it was extended in 1895. There is an old hearth pit inside, probably used for preparing food. Beside the cottage is a peat shed th...

Dick Monshouwer gallery
Run by Dutch artist / Dick Monshouwer.
Studio, exhibition and sale of art and applied
art. Jewellery, paintings, sculptures. p.m. Location: Risøyhamn, vis-à-vis the Coastal Ex...

Located high and open above the village of Sigerfjord, 12 km from the centre of Sortland, with a fantastic view of the mountains and fjord. The former Sortland Tuberculosis Home is now privately owned...

The national fishing industry museum was established in the spring of 1991 as a public institution, and was named Norsk Fiskeindustrimuseum. The University of Tromsø, University of Bergen, NHH Bergen,...

The museum is situated in Alsvåg. Turn off branch road 821 just before Myre town centre. Follow signposts from the Alsvåg town centre.

The Basic Exhibition
Developments in the fishing village – a jou...

Jennestad old trading post is a beautiful old seawharf with an oldfashioned store/shop, located ca. 8 km north of Sortland (signposted by road 820).

The shop is well worth a visit! For more than 140...

The national museum foundation for the coastal express at Stokmarknes. Exhibitions of authentic rooms and environments, photographs, paintings, model ships, historical films, videos and a multi-media ...

The Whale Centre was established in 1988 and is situated in an old fish processing warehouse at the harbour front. The Whale Centre offers a unique combination of tourism, education and research.

The Vesterålen Museum was founded on the basis of a private initiative in the 1920’s. At that time it was located in Rødgården House in Melbu town centre, a building dating back to the 1700’s that was...