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long-nurtured idea of establishing a museum in Nuuk. His plan bore fruit after he left, when the building became Greenland’s first museum. In 1978, the museum moved to its present location in the “Colony Harbour, ” and after a thor-ough restoration, the Moravian building opened in 1987 as the Univer...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.661.890 http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/download/525/555/ |
| Summary: | long-nurtured idea of establishing a museum in Nuuk. His plan bore fruit after he left, when the building became Greenland’s first museum. In 1978, the museum moved to its present location in the “Colony Harbour, ” and after a thor-ough restoration, the Moravian building opened in 1987 as the University of Greenland. This volume is not a textbook, but it is packed with knowledge and facts. It places the Greenland Moravians in an international framework and relates them to movements of the time like the Enlightenment, national Romanticism, and of course, religion. The book is highly recommended in itself for anyone who wants to know about these matters and as a gateway to further knowledge through the extensive, up-to-date bibliography. The quality of the layout, print, and illustrations is good, but the size of the book (15 × 21 cm) makes some of the plans and maps, which were not printed in full-page size, difficult to read properly. |
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