Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Hammerfest's Reconstruction Museum is a great little museum with particularly thoughtful
and sensitive panels and captions (each section has a synopsis in English). It recounts the
forced evacuation and decimation of the town during the Nazi retreat in 1944; the hard-
ships that its citizens endured through the following winter; and Hammerfest's postwar re-
construction and regeneration.
Kulturbanken Galleri
GALLERY
95 19 98 97;
www.syvstjerna.no
;
Sjøgata 15;
10am-4pm Mon-Wed & Fri,
to 5pm Thu, to 2pm Sat)
Local artist Eva Arnesen designed the Nobel Peace Prize diploma that was awarded to
Jody Williams and the campaign to ban landmines. Arnesen's paintings evoke the colours
of the region from the northern lights to the bright palette of summer and you can see her
work in this newly opened gallery in the town centre.
Rådhus Plass, and the sealskin chairs in the Royal & Ancient Polar Bear Society museum,
were fashioned by her husband, woodcarver Knut Arnesen.
Kulturhuset
CULTURAL CENTRE
Hammerfest's recently completed Kulturhuset is worth a brief visit, simply to savour its
striking architecture. Within, there's a theatre, a couple of cinemas and a small cafe that
does a decent cup of coffee.
St Michaels Catholic Church
CHURCH
With a strong claim to being the world's most northerly Catholic church, St Michaels,
serving a congregation of barely 90 souls, is immediately recognisable by the striking mo-
saic of the eponymous saint that extends the length of its facade.
Salen Hill
VIEWPOINT
