Sámi Museum Siida

Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida is your guide to Sámi culture and northern nature.

Siida is located in the town of Inari, in the Sámi Homeland.

The Sámi Museum preserves and presents the spiritual and material heritage of the Finnish Sámi in its collections and exhibitions. Our exhibitions show how nature and people have adapted to the extreme conditions of the Northern environment side by side. Temporary exhibitions on cultural history, nature and art.

The open-air museum presents typical dwellings of the Sámi fishermen and the nomadic Sámi, as well as hunting methods and reindeer husbandry. Open-air museum is open again 1.6.2021.

The Siida building that opened in 1998 is expanded at the moment. The new parts will be housing the Sámi Museum Collections Unit and the restaurant.
In May 2021 Siida is closed as the museum collections and restaurant will move to new premises and customer service will move to temporary premises.
Siida-building will be renovated 1.6.2021-31.3.2022 and at the same time joint permanent exhibition of the Sámi Museum and Northern Lapland Nature Centre will be renewed. During the renovation phase you can visit the enriched open-air museum.
The larger, renovated Siida and the new exhibition will open in April 2022.

Sámi Museum has regional unit in Sevettijärvi where the Sámi Museum maintains the Skolt Sámi Heritage House, which is open in summer and autumn.