EventThe Greenland National Museum & Archives opened its exhibition "MAPPING NUNAAT – Rethinking Greenlandic Cartographic Heritage" in Nuuk from May to September 2025, now available virtually. It displays Inuit maps made of skins, driftwood, and repatriated wooden pieces, and critiques European colonial cartography that erased Inuit place names, underscoring maps as tools of resistance and identity.
An exhibit in Greenland examines how Western cartography has led to colonial renaming and the erasure of Indigenous place names, shedding light on cultural heritage and identity in the Arctic.
A Greenland museum exhibition now online confronts colonial map narratives by presenting Inuit cartographic traditions and critiquing European renaming, blank spaces, and omitted sites. It showcases skin‑ and wood‑based maps, repatriated Ammassalik pieces, and alternative cartographies, highlighting maps as tools of resistance and identity.