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Mon 10 Nov 2025 Gold Museum opens 1 pm
On Monday 10 November Gold Museum is open exceptionally from 1 pm to 4 pm due to staff training. Welcome to Gold Museum! Other exceptional opening hours in the end of 2025 and early 2026: Closed:Wed-Fri 24.-26.12.2025Thu 1.1.2026Tue 6.1.2026
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Gold panning and guided tour Wed & Fri at 14 in winter
Gold Museum’s new weekly program, Gold Prospector’s Starter Pack, introduces you to Lapland’s gold prospecting history and gold’s journey from stars to gold pan. On the tour, our guide will introduce you to the gold rush on the Ivalojoki River, the lives of gold prospectors, and lifechanging gold discoveries. In the Mineral exhibition, you will learn about the cosmic origins of gold, and at the end, you will get to pan for gold yourself at Gold Museum’s indoor pool. Found gold and gemstones are yours to keep! The program takes place entirely indoors at Gold Museum, so you don’t need…
A Surprise in the middle of Wilderness
Tankavaara is home for the only international museum in the world displaying past and present of gold panning and prospecting. The first main exhibition presents the history of gold prospecting in Lapland. The second main exhibition, Golden World – International Gold History, presents over twenty countries all over the world. Welcome!
In Tankavaara area you can also find our neighbours: Tankavaara Gold Village with its services and the UKK National Park nature trails.
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Mon 10 Nov 2025 Gold Museum opens 1 pm
On Monday 10 November Gold Museum is open exceptionally from 1 pm to 4 pm due to staff training. Welcome to Gold Museum! Other exceptional opening hours in the end of 2025 and early 2026: Closed:Wed-Fri 24.-26.12.2025Thu 1.1.2026Tue 6.1.2026
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Gold panning and guided tour Wed & Fri at 14 in winter
Gold Museum’s new weekly program, Gold Prospector’s Starter Pack, introduces you to Lapland’s gold prospecting history and gold’s journey from stars to gold pan. On the tour, our guide will introduce you to the gold rush on the Ivalojoki River, the lives of gold prospectors, and lifechanging gold discoveries. In the Mineral exhibition, you will…








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