The aurora theatre
Northern lights guaranteed on the ceiling.
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The indigenous people of the north across Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia, reindeer herders with their own language and dress; the museum shows their life in their own voice, not tourism's.
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A glass tunnel pointing north: Arktikum on the Ounas riverbank (1992) is a 172-metre glass building diving into the earth, and beneath it two museums in one — the Regional Museum of Lapland on the Sámi, reindeer, northern life and the wartime destruction and rebuilding of Rovaniemi, and the Arctic Centre on the aurora, snow, climate and polar wildlife. The aurora theatre shows the northern lights on a domed ceiling for those the sky did not favour, and the exhibits are interactive in English and Finnish — ninety minutes explaining everything you will see in Lapland afterwards. The Arctic garden outside grows polar plants, and the glass tunnel glows by itself on winter evenings. The best start to a Rovaniemi visit and the best refuge on a heavy snow day, ten minutes' walk from the centre.
Northern lights guaranteed on the ceiling.
172 metres pointing to the pole.
The town burned and rebuilt in the shape of a reindeer's head.
Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi