Ájtte

Museum in Sweden

Ájtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum (Swedish: Svenskt fjäll- och samemuseum), is a cultural and natural history museum in Jokkmokk in Lapland, Sweden. Ájtte is a museum, which specializes in the culture and nature of the mountainous area of Northern Sweden, and which is also the main museum and archive for the Sami culture of Sweden. Ájtte is also an information centre for tourism in Lapland. The word ájtte is a Lule Sami language one, meaning storage hut and referring to the museum as an archive for artifacts of the Sami cultural heritage. Ájtte was inaugurated in June 1989 and has a

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Coordinates:

66.60°N, 19.84°E

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