Visit the Uummannaq Museum
The main building of the Uummannaq museum contains a small reading room and several exhibitions relevant to the area. Here you can learn about Alfred Wegener’s expedition on the Ice Sheet with a propeller-driven sled, and see replicas of the clothing of the Qilakitsoq mummies that were discovered just across the fjord from Uummannaq in 1972 (the mummies themselves are in the National Museum in Nuuk).
Have a chat with the curator for more local history, and ask for access to the other buildings of the museum if they aren’t open already. These include the “Doctor’s House”, which often hosts temporary art exhibitions and is where Santa’s office is located, the long “whale blubber house”, which is filled with an eclectic mix of items and artworks, and the peat huts that occupy the land in front of the church.
Entrance to the Museum: USD$10 – per person.