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The Itsanitaq Museum is a museum located in Churchill, Canada dedicated to Inuit culture. [1] History. The intention with the creation of this museum was by Catholic missionaries to preserve the various artifacts of the native people of the northern part of Canada in 1944.
The history, life and times of the Eskimoes and the Inuit are told through the art work and the tools used by these native people. There are excellent displays of whale bone, ivory and soap stone carvings. Hunting scences are delicately reproduced in minature on pieces of ivory and whale bone.
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Itsanitaq Museum has a collection of Inuit carvings and artifacts that are among the finest and oldest in the world dating from Pre-Dorset (1700 B.C.) through Dorset, Thule and modern Inuit times.
The Itsanitaq Museum features exhibits on the Dorset and Thule cultures, as well as Inuit-related displays that include antique weapons, hunting equipment, and wooden kayaks designed for Arctic Ocean navigation.
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This one-room museum showcases an exceptional collection of Inuit carvings made of whalebone, soapstone and caribou antler, as well as millennia-old harpoon heads and bone carvings of shamans and bears left over from the pre-Inuit Thule and Dorset cultures of the Igloolik region.
This out-of-the-way Museum may look small and unassuming from the outside, but it houses so many well-done and interesting displays! There’s no way to see them all in just an hour. If you’re in Churchill or the surrounding area, this is a definite must-do.
