The main room has an important display of the German's attempt to capture Murmansk and the impact it had on Kirkenes during WWII. There is an impressive display of iron mining and a few bits and bobs about life in the town plus a couple...More

Although not very large, the exhibits are excellent and show so much about WW2 in the far North. We learned so much about the struggle up in the north and how the Russians helped the Norwegians defeat teh Nazis.

Excellent presentation of life in the region with a focus on the German occupation during WWII. Wonderful Russian fighter plane restored to near original state. Good cafe

This is a great local museum. It covers the local history well from the Sami people, the history of the local mine and the events around the war years plus the general history of the area. For such a small town they have put the...More

We walked up the hill to the Borderland Museum and spent a couple hours educating ourselves on how vicious WWII was in the area of Kirkenes. I'm kind of a military history enthusiast, but I had no idea...!

I enjoyed the visit to this beautiful museum on the hill. You can enjoy some nice things from the restaurant. Very interesting history and quite place to go for an hour or two and relaxing atmosphere.

This was a great museum. It is full of information about what happened in this area during WWII. Each of the storyboards was in Norwegian but there were cards at each display in many other languages. It was definitely worth it.