Kulusuk

A small but cosy family-style museum, where visitors can learn about the region’s traditions, arts, and history. Even if it is small, it hosts a substantial number of artefacts that come to live through the owner’s vivid storytelling. You need to contact the owners Justine and Frederik Boassen to arrange a visit.

Historic site from the US from the cold war. The station ‘DYE4’ as part of the US Distant Early Warning Radar Line System is located on a mountain at the southern end of Kulusuk Island overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 329 meters above sea level. The same site was used already by the US during world war II as a weather station. While the DYE4 station was closed in 1991, the remains stand, the view alone is worth a visit.

The church was constructed around 1922 by the crew of a Danish fishing vessel that was stranded close to the settlement and used the timbers from the ship to construct the main building. It’s simple look from the outside, has a very colourful insight. To date, a replica of the ship it was built from, hangs from the ceiling. The elegant geometric stained glasses have been donated by a German glasswork owner that fell in love with the place. The colourful inside has many small Greenlandic details woven into it, such as seal skin around the altar.

On the outskirts of the settlement, beyond the church, right next to the shore, is the statue of the late Milka Miilikka Kuitse, representing her resistance to the drum dancing culture. During the early colonial period in East Greenland, drum dancing was forbidden by the missionaries, however she fought to preserve this important tradition and continued drum dancing. To this date, drum dancing serves an important role in specific cultural settings, which her statue reminds us of.