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Nuuk: Katuaq’s three shapes and two museums
Katuaq’s three named spaces are built as a semicircle, square and triangle, in a building with a slightly wavy wood-and-glass facade. Nuuk Art Museum occupies buildings that served, among other uses, as a church, clinic and offices; the National Museum keeps skin boats and dog sledges.
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Three spaces in three shapes
Katuaq opened in 1997. Its architecture page says the Hans Lynge Salen, Lillesalen and CaféTuaq are built as a semicircle, square and triangle respectively; the building has a slightly wavy facade of wood and glass.[2]
Buildings reused for art
Nuuk Art Museum describes its buildings as having served, among other uses, as a church, a clinic, the minister’s home and offices before their museum use. The art museum opened in 2005.[1]
Skin boats in the National Museum
The Greenland National Museum and Archives in Nuuk describes a large collection of Inuit means of transport that includes numerous skin boats and dog sledges.[3]
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