Harstad: Sør-Troms Museum Harstad: Sør-Troms Museum No Data

Description


The museum tells the history of the area, from the earliest settlers, through it's important role in the Viking era, through to the founding of the town of Hardstat at the end of the 19th Century and a moving exhibition on the slave labour camp that was set up by the Nazi's in the area to house Soviet slave labourers working on the Atlantic wall defences on the coast here.

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Getting There

From the Hurtigruten the museum can only be visited as part of the Taste of Vesterålen tour as there is insufficient time in port to get out to the museum, located on the edge of town
Latitude: 68.820281; Longitude: 16.559351
What3Words: mimic.veal.gangway

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Web Link


www.stmu.no
Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (27/07/2015), and on time of last update (10/08/2015) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.