Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, is the northernmost university town in the world. Where explorers once set sail, tourist attractions now abound, from a polar museum to a fishing boat kitted out ...

Altenburger, 41, oversees the Polar Museum’s specimen collection in Tromsø, a small but lively city that serves as a gateway for climate researchers studying the Arctic Ocean’s warming waters.

Katrine Rugeldal, an art historian in the New Sámi Renaissance research programme at the Arctic University Museum of Norway in Tromsø, says that simply integrating Indigenous works into existing ...

The finalists in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, which was chosen by 75,000 people, include two lionesses doting on a cub and a turtle communing with a dragonfly.

The city of Tromsø experiences Polar Night in the winter and Midnight Sun in the summer (Picture: NurPhoto via Getty Images) For the first time in 49 days, people in northern Norway’s largest ...

Metro spent 24 hours in Norway's most northerly Arctic City, widely referred to as the 'Paris of the North'. Here is what to do in Tromsø.

The polar bear’s “Ice Bed” was chosen as the winner by 75,000 members of the public — a record number, said the museum. The museum highlighted four others worthy of special commendation: ...

They booked the Scandinavian Ishavshotel hotel in Tromsø’s city center with half-board ... as well as indoor stops like a children’s science museum, an observatory, and a polar explorer exhibit. “One ...

London's Natural History Museum announced the winners of its 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

RESCUED EXPLORERS TELL OF PRIVATIONS; Ziegler Polar Expedition's Two Winters in Arctic Ice. HOPE LOST IN SECOND YEAR Leaders Cheered Men Until Spring, Then Relief Came -- All Now Safe in Tromsoe ...

The Polar Museum, located in a historic wooden house by Tromsø's harbour, may be rather stuffy and old-fashioned, but the photos, exhibits and anecdotes from Fridtjof Nansen's and Roald Amundsen ...