Lecture tour in Vesterålen
Published 30 September 2026
Liv Helene Willumsen and Gøril Karlsen have been on a lecture tour in Vesterålen
31 January 2025
Ballangen Museum and Ballangen Library welcome you to the exhibition opening at Ballangen Library on Tuesday 4 February, at 16-18!
The opening is marked with a lecture by Tone Elvebakk from Várdobáiki Sami Center, and coffee and something to eat, and Áhkánjárgga Sámesearvi / Narvik Sami Association provides activities for children!
See the event here
The exhibition Govat ja muitalusat – Sámi eallin gaskal 1910-1925, Photos and stories – Sami Life 1910-1925 tells through photographs and stories about what life was like in the markasámi villages in South Troms and Nordre Nordland 100 years ago. The exhibition was produced by Várdobáiki Sami Centre in collaboration with Sortland Museum and Narvik Museum in 2017, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first Sami national meeting in Trondheim in 1917. Text in Sami and Norwegian.
The exhibition Govat ja muitalusat – Sámi eallin gaskal 1910-1925, Photos and stories – Sami Life 1910-1925 is available from Monday 3 February, but officially opens on Tuesday 4 February.
The exhibition opening is free, and it is also completely free to see the exhibition at the library until Thursday 27 February, within the library’s own opening hours.