Juhls Gallery

For our last trip with the international student group we went to a town called Kautokeino. It was actually quite close to the Norwegian Finland border. We went to this silver gallery called juhls galleri. This couple moved here in the 50’s and built what started out as a small cabin, but they kept building on. It is now a huge gallery. The rooms were all very neat and different, in one room the roof was all caved in. I guess one winter the snow actually sunk down the roof. So the guy just left it. They were involved in this movement to help Afghanistan refuges; so one area of the gallery is dedicated to this Afghani culture. The couple are silver smiths, so they make a lot of Sami and Norsk jewelery. We got to go right into their workshop as they were working. There was a lot of exhibited displaying Sami culture and such. Don’t expect any presents from there, it was all quite expensive…

On the way home we stopped at this Sami culture College, a reindeer slaughtering plant (my vegetarian friend had the time of her life!) and this old church that was in a Sami movie we saw on an earlier trip.