Sami people and national minorities
Our permanent exhibitions tell about how the Sami lived in the past and about Laponia, the landscape where they have lived for thousands of years. Gällivare is an administrative municipality for the national minority languages ​​Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami.

Settlers
You get to see how people used to farm the land, keep animals and do forestry. We also show how the settlers subsisted on hunting and fishing. In order for you to get a picture of their living conditions, we have built an environment with a log cabin, forests, swamps and animals.

Mining industry
In Gällivare municipality, there are two large mines. In one, iron ore is mined at a depth of up to 1,250 meters and in the other, which is one of the world's largest open pit mines, copper is extracted. In our permanent exhibition, you can see how the mining industry have developed and different minerals.