  We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the
SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A data set of proton-proton
collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6\,$TeV collected by SND@LHC in 2022 is used,
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.8$\,\rm{fb}^{-1}$. The search
is based on information from the active electronic components of the SND@LHC
detector, which covers the pseudo-rapidity region of $7.2 < \eta < 8.4$,
inaccessible to the other experiments at the collider. Muon neutrino candidates
are identified through their charged-current interaction topology, with a track
propagating through the entire length of the muon detector. After selection
cuts, 8 $\nu_\mu$ interaction candidate events remain with an estimated
background of 0.076 events, yielding a significance of seven standard
deviations for the observed $\nu_\mu$ signal.
