Norrbottens museum - regional museum for 1/4 of Sweden!
Photo Daryoush Tahmasebi © Norrbottens museum
In the museum building
Several temporary exhibitions are always on show in the museum building - art, photography, cultural history. You will find a link to an illustrated exhibition schedule below (see Exhibitions). The brief information is given in Swedish only, but you´ll get an idea!
Saturday is the general opening day for new exhibitions.
Sunday is a day for childrens´ activities ("Childrens´ Sunday", never in the summer though), but also for other programmes, like lectures, music entertainment etc.
You can find our ad in the local papers on Fridays under the heading Nöjen (Entertainment), to see what is going on during the weekend.
Exhibitions Films
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For children A guide-book
Photo Staffan Nygren © Norrbottens museum
"About the Finnish War 1808-1809"
A new semi-permanent exhibition opened in September, 2009: "About the Finnish War 1808-1809". This is to commemorate the war and peace of 1809, when Sweden lost Finland to Russia. Till then, since well 600 years, Finland had been a part of Sweden.
Maps, illustrations, objects from the collections, a soldier´s uniform etc. will give an idea what military and civil life was like during this last war in Sweden. The result of the peace negotiations of 1809, was the new border in the Tornio River. This is also commented upon; today we see a new borderless collaboration in the cities of Haparanda and Tornio; since both Sweden and Finland became members of the European Union.
English texts are available in a separate booklet on loan.
