Museum of Norrbotten

Luleå, Sweden

Norrbotten County Museum exhibits the history of Norrbotten and Samish culture.

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Address

Storgatan 2, Luleå, Sweden
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Details

Founded: 1936
Category: Museums in Sweden
Historical period: Modern and Nonaligned State (Sweden)

More Information

www.swedishlapland.com

Rating

4.1/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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John (8 months ago)
The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the study and education of the public. To city leaders, an active museum community can be seen as a gauge of the cultural or economic health of a city, and a way to increase the sophistication of its inhabitants. To museum professionals, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public about the museum's mission, such as civil rights or environmentalism.
Severin Kämpfer (2 years ago)
Small exhibition with some artifacts. There is some art and a little English information. It’s ok because it s free, hüt it’s nothing special. Especially when you’ve been at another „local“ museum of a city which lies north of Stockholm (they mostly have the same things in their exhibition). Everything I saw could have easily been displayed in a video.
nicola Strandberg (2 years ago)
Brilliant for younger kids, a fun day out.
Sam (2 years ago)
Family friendly, lovely museum, free to enter and definitely worth a visit.
Dagni García (2 years ago)
The expositions in each floor are very disconnected. The first floor was about cows, the 2nd about the prehistory focused in the Norrbotten area but it was too technical to follow and 3rd one about art. Limited English material, mainly Swedish and Finnish.
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