Twenty years ago, the museum opened its doors in Seefeld. In the opening exhibition, the sea goddess Sedna also appeared at NONAM for the first time. Now she is back — as the central figure of the anniversary exhibition on art, culture, and climate change in the Arctic. In cooperation with Museum Cerny as lending institution, NONAM celebrates 20 years in Seefeld and 60 years of museum history. Sedna is one of the most important figures in the cosmology of the Inuit and other polar cultures. As the mother of sea animals, she decides whether people go hungry or are fed. Her myths and legends are as diverse as the people who tell them. In art she appears at times as a hunting ruler, at others trapped in a fishing net. She stands both for mythical times and for the major challenges of the present.
