You can contact the police office if you need to report theft or vandalism.

Reed here what other things the police can assist with.

You can contact the Police by calling  +47 02800 (emergency numer 112) or e-mail post.nordland@politiet.no

You will find Sortland Police Office in Roald Amundsensgate 10 in Andenes.

This is an public doctor office you can contact if you need to see a doctor.

Opening hours

Monday 08:00 - 15:30
Tuesday 08:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 08:00 - 15:30
Thursday 08:00 - 15:30
Friday 08:00 - 15:30

Contact

Tel. 76 13 85 55

Address: Veaveien 9, 8475 Straumsjøen

E-mail: tan-str@nfk.no

Opening hours

Monday 08:00 - 15:30
Tuesday 08:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 08:00 - 15:30
Thursday 08:00 - 15:30
Friday 08:00 - 15:30

Contact

Tel. +47 75 65 61 50 

Address: Sjøgata 21, 8480 Andenes

E-mail: and-tann@nfk.no 

Opening hours

Monday 08:00 - 15:30
Tuesday 08:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 08:00 - 15:30
Thursday 08:00 - 15:30
Friday 08:00 - 15:30

Contact

Tel. 97 41 68 23

Address: Storgata 50, 8430 Myre

E-mail: myr-tann@nfk.no 

Opening hours

Monday: 0800 - 1800
Tuesday and Wednesday: 0800 - 1500
Thursday: 0800 - 1830
Friday: 0800 - 1400
Saturday and Sunday: Closed

Telephone hour Mon-Tue: 0815 - 1500
Telephone hour Friday: 0815 - 1400

Contact

Tel. +47 76 12 22 35

Address: Kjøpmannsgt. 22, 8400 Sortland

E-mail: post@tannhjelp.no

Opening hours

Monday         08:00 - 15:30
Tuesday        08:00 - 15:30
Wednesday   08:00 - 15:30
Thursday      08:00 - 15:30
Friday          08:00 - 15:30

Nordlandssykehuset Vesterålen is the regional hospital for the five minicipalities in Vesterålen - Andøy, Bø, Hadsel, Sortland and Øksnes. The hospital is new and was opened in 2014.

Contact

Tel. +47 75 42 40 00

Adress: Ivar Bergsmogate 3, 8450 Stokmarknes

You find more information here

Melbu doctor is an public doctor office you can contact if you experience sickness during your stay in Vesterålen. 

Stokmarknes doctor is an public doctor office you can contact if you experience sickness during your stay in Vesterålen.

Andenes doctor is an public doctor office you can contact if you experience sickness during your stay in Vesterålen. 

You can contact the police office if you need to report theft or vandalism.

Reed here what other things the police can assist with.

You can contact the Police by calling  +47 02800 (emergency numer 112) or e-mail post.nordland@politiet.no

You will find Sortland Police Office in Strandgata 37 in Sortland.

In 2002, the project “The Gulf Stream has gone ashore” was expanded. Myre primary school, Husjord School, Romset School and Øksnes Coastal Society created RÆK II with ornament artist Ingrid Larssen as consultant. Artists working on a volunteer basis placed three large wooden beams at Stø. The boulder behind it was given an eye – so that it looks like a whale or wolffish.

Art installation at Hovden in Bø i Vesterålen.  Using nine metre-long beams of driftwood and a two-metre tall basalt column from Iceland, Harald Oredam and his able assistants created the art installation RÆK 3.

On the outer side of Hadseløya, at Taen, a stone spiral has been created, since stones have also drifted with the Gulf Stream. Pupils from Stokmarknes primary school and Hadsel upper secondary created the installation in collaboration with artist Siv Johansen.
A path with a love bench and youthful poetry leads down to RÆK IV.

The museum houses objects that artist Raffael Rheinsberg found at Andøya in August 1992. The objects are displayed in old garage near the Polar Museum at Andenes.

The Island Museum is absolutely not an ordinary museum with precisely documented  historical periods and geographic areas. Instead of scientific criteria, the choice of objects is based on aesthetic principles concerning  their intrinsic beauty and the surprising aspects they evoke. The installation of the objects was treated with the notion of beauty in mind. The Island Museum is a part of the Artscape Nordland project.

Raffael Rheinsberg’s art has been described as “everyday archaeology”. He  shows us the things we use in our work and leisure time and thus holds up a mirror  to the way we live.

Open: For opening hours, see “Artists and galleries in Vesterålen” on the menu line.
The Island Museum is open daily during summer.

Inghild Karlsen’s two-piece sculpture  with its vacillating meanings  can be placed within several   frames of reference. The visual form is taken from everyday life, and is based on the common street lamps  that are used in the area. The borrowed shape from everyday existence is thus translated into the language of stone and sculpture.

The sculpture is a lamp. Light  becomes invisible in the northern summer light and visible as a source of light during the winter when darkness takes over and it is difficult to distinguish between night and day. The lamp’s form is inspired from the face of a woman, from the face of any woman at all.

The sculptures are placed in two different locations – one in the centre of the municipality, in a small park where the street lamp casts its shadow on the surrounding grounds. The other is in an area that is located at the end of the earth, in a fishing village that was depopulated during the 1960s and 70s, and that is practically abandoned now, the victim of the teeth of time. It is almost as if time has reversed in this environment. The sculpture is placed in the harbour basin  among the abandoned buildings with their clear and optimistic, yet faded  colours. Here the sculpture casts its shadow on the surface of the water in the harbour. A link, a connection, a line of contact is created between what once was, what is now, and what will be in the future.

The sculpture Havsøye (Eye on the Sea) consists of two main shapes: A boat and a house. They reflect mankind’s basic needs, and the symbols are universally known throughout the world. The house leans against the  boat, and in the middle of the boat there is a diamond-shaped opening. This window opens onto and frames the beautiful panorama across to the other side of the fjord. The highly polished sides of the stone inside the opening reflect the every-changing interplay between the sea, the sky and the mountains, a constant play of light and movement.

Gudmundsson’s art shows us how very close the poetic lies to everyday objects, what we see, think, and the manner in which we understand it. His visual poetry is not distant from life’s reality, it appeals to us to see things from another perspective.

The sculpture was created by Sigurdur Gudmundsson and is a part of the Artscape Nordland project.

It has been said that myths are the invisible threads that weave society into a whole. At the same time, they are narratives that help us understand the situation in which we live.

Killi Olsen’s sculpture, The Man from the Sea,reflects both definitions of the myth, while at the same time it creates a new myth. We are in the process of spinning a story about a man who has forsaken the sea and now stands on terra firma. In his hand, he holds an obelisk-shaped crystal like an offering – the artist claims – to his earlier abode.

Transformer shed at the car park at Hisnakul, Andenes.

The RÆK projects were realized as a part of the Gulf Stream Cultural Lift, which began at Andenes in 2001. The art school here completed the project together with artists Bent Aune and Ingrid Larssen. Sundry items from the shoreline were affixed to a transformer shed in the harbour area, painted blue and decorated with words and phrases.

The sculpture in Hadsel consists of two houses built of stone and placed on a cement platform on the shoreline. One house is built with Storen granite, so light-greyish that it is practically white; the other of Lødingen granite, which is nearly coal-black. The houses are placed at Børøya, which is located directly across from downtown Stokmarknes. Thus, they are visible from the centre of the town. The houses are minimalist in style, austere and naïvely simple in design. They create a definite contrast to the surroundings, which consist of pebbles on the sands, heather and birch shrubbery.

At high tide, the water rises almost to floor-level around the houses. At low tide, they remain high and dry. I have also seen them once when there was a flash flood – water poured into the houses through the small holes in the walls. I think the idea of these holes was that there would be a kind of flute sound when the wind blew through them, as it often does, but nothing happens. The holes are simply there.