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Gold Museum is open Mon–Fri 11–16 in spring 2025
Due to the strategy and development work of the Gold Museum, the museum will open to individual visitors at 11 am during the spring season. For groups who book in advance, the museum will open earlier if agreed. At the beginning of June, we will return to our usual summer opening hours. A warm welcome…
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Golden Christmas’ gold panning workshop 27th Dec 2024
How gold and Christmas are related? What exactly is gold? And how can you find gold in nature? These questions will be answered at the Gold Museum’s Christmas gold panning workshop on Fri 27.12.! In this workshop, a guide will lead you through the thousands of years old gold panning technique. You’ll be able to…
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Gold Museum switches to winter opening hours 1st October 2024
The Gold Museum has shifted to winter opening hours (1.10.2024-30.5.2025). We are open Mon-Fri from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is closed on weekends and public holidays. Welcome to Gold Museum!
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Museum Director
The employment of Museum Director Teresa Töntsi has ended on 31.10.2023. Hanna Mattila, the Head of Collections, takes the place of Interim Museum Director from 1.11.2023. The museum will start the search process for a new museum director as soon as possible. The Gold Museum will continue to operate as usual. The museum is open…
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Winter parking
Gold Museum’s two parking lots are also open in winter. The smaller car park, more commonly known as the winter car park, is located next to the museum building and is clearly waymarked. Disabled parking is located next to the door of the museum, and is accessed by following the signs for the winter car…
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Thu 19th Dec 2024 Gold Museum is open exceptionally 13.00–16.00 due to power outage.
Thu 19.12.2024 The Gold Museum will open exceptionally at 13.00 due to electricity network improvements in the area. During the outage it will be possible to visit the outdoor museum area, and after the outage the exhibitions will be open as usual. Thank you for your understanding! Note: We previously announced a power outage for…
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Events of Anniversary Year
For fifty years, the Gold Museum has been telling the story of Lapland’s colourful gold history and later also of the international gold heritage. Our changing exhibition “NUGGETS – Arctic Gold” will open on 28th March and will be on display at the museum until end of April 2024. The exhibition tells the story of…
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Opening hours in the winter
The summer season has come to an end and the Gold Museum has entered the winter season along with the cooling weather. From October until the end of May, the Gold Museum is open from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On weekends the museum is closed, as well as on Mon…
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The Gold Story continues during summer time
The Gold Story is a 15-minute long museum tour that presents the colorful history of Lappish gold through different themes. These themes range from gold itself to legends, dreams, women and culture and covers as well law and order and examples from international gold history. The Gold Story will be held on weekdays (Mon-Fri) at 2.00…
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Gold Museum Stands With Children of Ukraine
War in Ukraine has touched people around Europe and World, including us here in Gold Museum. The Ukrainian nation is suffering, especially the children. We want to participate in helping them. During the next two weeks (28th Feb – 13th Mar 2022) 10% of our entrance fee income is directed via UNICEF to help children…
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