Tromsø University Museum includes the Tromsø City Museum, the Polar Museum and the Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden. Its exhibitions introduce visitors to visitors to the nature of Northern Norway, the culture of the Sami people, archaeology and geology of the region, religious art and tells about Northern Lights.
At the Tromsø Museum you can learn more about Sámi culture and way of life, as well as an exhibition of jewellery that once belonged to the Vikings and see a huge dinosaur. The structure of the building consists of geometric forms: a quadrangular tower with a pyramidal roof, a rotunda with a conical roof, an entrance with two rectangular porches, large spaces between the windows - all this gives the museum a monumental appearance.
The Polar Museum tells about the polar navigators and explorers of the Arctic, about hunting seals, whales, polar bears and Russian wintering. The museum was opened in 1978 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the last expedition of Roald Amundsen in search of the missing Umberto Nobile and his dirigible Italia.
The Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden is the world's northernmost botanical garden, opened in 1994. It contains a huge number of alpine alpine plants, striking in their beauty and diversity. There is a path around the garden, called the “Geologist's Route” and leading to a pedestrian bridge, which overlooks the botanical garden located on the mountainside. Plants are grouped according to the climatic zones of the continents. The botanical garden is open to the public all year round and admission is free.
