{"id":4426,"date":"2020-03-18T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=4426"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:17:55","slug":"the-museum-of-reconstruction-in-hammerfest-tells-the-story-of-rebuilding-from-the-ashes-of-war","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/the-museum-of-reconstruction-in-hammerfest-tells-the-story-of-rebuilding-from-the-ashes-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Reconstruction in Hammerfest tells the story of rebuilding from the ashes of war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tSeventy five thousand people were forcibly evacuated from Finnmark and Northern Troms in 1944-45, 25 000 of whom fled to the mountains. Robbed of their visible history, after the war the people of Finnmark built a new, modern society with new ideals. The Museum of Reconstruction tells the story of the forced evacuation, cave-dwellers and post-war reconstruction, and you may find yourself shedding a tear along the way. \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

Before World War II, the regions of Finnmark and Nord-Troms were inhabited by three different, distinct ethnic groups: the Sami, the Finns (Kv\u00e6n) and the Norwegians. Some were still living in turf huts under the same roof as their livestock. Others lived in Finnish-style log cabins or in log houses prefabricated on the shores of the White Sea in Russia and sold as building kits to the fishing villages along the coast. The \u201cbetter\u201d parts of Hammerfest and Vard\u00f8 featured the colourful, painted wooden architecture of the Norwegian inhabitants. The new industrial town of Kirkenes represented modernity. All in all, pre-war Finnmark was not only multi-ethnic but the people\u2019s livelihoods spanned the entire spectrum from ancient barter economy to modern industrial society.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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