When people hear the word history, many immediately think of wars, kings, and dates they learned at school. But a place is made of the things people remember, pass on, and carry with them in everyday life.
Story of Place is a museum for stories, phenomena, places, trends, and events that might not have found a place in the history books, but still say something important about life here. Its content is built on contributions we have received from people who live here.
We hope the museum can become a shortcut for people like you who are visiting us, a shortcut to the soul and heart of Lapland.
Do you have something that would belong here? It does not matter when it happened or how many people it affected. As long as it is a story that moves people, we want to you to tell it to the world!
Story of Place is part of the project The Arctic Heartland by Heart of Lapland, and made possible thanks to funding from Region Norrbotten and Längmanska Företagarfonden.
When people hear the word history, many immediately think of wars, kings, and dates they learned at school. But a place is made of the things people remember, pass on, and carry with them in everyday life.
Story of Place is a museum for stories, phenomena, places, trends, and events that might not have found a place in the history books, but still say something important about life here. Its content is built on contributions we have received from people who live here.
We hope the museum can become a shortcut for people like you who are visiting us, a shortcut to the soul and heart of Lapland.
Do you have something that would belong here? It does not matter when it happened or how many people it affected. As long as it is a story that moves people, we want to you to tell it to the world!
Story of Place is part of the project The Arctic Heartland by Heart of Lapland, and made possible thanks to funding from Region Norrbotten and Längmanska Företagarfonden.
The french expedition
In the 1700s, a bunch of French scientists headed to the far north of Sweden to see if the earth was a bit flattened. They measured a lot of land, thought they found evidence of an ancient forgotten civilization, watched alcohol freeze and was roasted by Voltaire in the first novel about aliens visiting Earth.
The key hook
On larger farms some women wore brass hook ornaments on the outside of their clothing. It began as a practical way to keep together the keys to the farm’s most important places but became carefully forged pieces of jewellery that signalled the power and status of the woman who wore them.
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The french expedition
In the 1700s, a bunch of French scientists headed to the far north of Sweden to see if the earth was a bit flattened. They measured a lot of land, thought they found evidence of an ancient forgotten civilization, watched alcohol freeze and was roasted by Voltaire in the first novel about aliens visiting Earth.
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The EPA
The solution is a modified car with an orange triangle in the back, that even 15-year-olds are allowed to drive.
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The key hook
On larger farms some women wore brass hook ornaments on the outside of their clothing. It began as a practical way to keep together the keys to the farm’s most important places but became carefully forged pieces of jewellery that signalled the power and status of the woman who wore them.
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The meteorites
One of the rarest kinds of meteorites was found in Heart of Lapland in 1906. The iron meteor Muonionalusta has been attracting meteor hunters ever since.
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The cell phone
The cell phone would not be possible without a man who grew up in a tiny village in Heart of Lapland.
