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Sermersooq · Greenland Capital
In the destination Nuuk and the Nuuk Fjord.
In the photo: Houses of Myggedalen in Nuuk, with Sermitsiaq in the background.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
The country’s capital occupies a rocky peninsula at the mouth of the large fjord, with Sermitsiaq on the other side of the water. It mixes the colonial harbor, with Hans Egede’s house, the cathedral and the National Museum, with modern buildings such as the Katuaq cultural center. It is the base for boat trips on the fjord and for flights to the rest of the country.
There's no accommodation in the guide yet in Nuuk.
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The local experience
The country’s main museum, in old buildings of Nuuk’s colonial harbor. It covers more than four thousand years of history, from the first peoples to the colonial era, and houses the Qilakitsoq mummies.
A mid-19th-century red wooden Lutheran church near the colonial harbour. It is Greenland’s cathedral and one of the most familiar images of the capital.
Greenland’s cultural centre, opened in 1997 in central Nuuk, with a waved wooden façade. It hosts concerts, cinema, theatre and exhibitions.
An art museum with paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculptures in bone, wood and soapstone that depict Greenland over time, by local artists and travellers.
The large fjord that opens north and east of the capital, divided into arms that cut into the mainland to glacier fronts. Boat trips go to settlements, summer huts and glacier fronts.
The old town core, on the fjord shore, with colorful colonial-era houses, Hans Egede’s house, the museum and the Mother of the Sea sculpture, which appears at low tide.
