Västerbottens Museum
The Västerbottens Museum in the Gammliaviertel of Umeå is a provincial museum of the cultural history of the province of Västerbotten County . It includes the Gammlia friluftsmuseum , a ski exhibition (previously the Swedish Ski Museum), a fishing and maritime museum, the Västerbotten Folk Movement Archive and a number of seed settlements . The museum looks after the entire province of Västerbotten, among other things through numerous contract activities, especially in the archaeological area. The museum produces the quarterly magazine Västerbotten for the Västerbotten district association.
The open air museum
Gammlia is an open-air museum that is an integrated part of the Västerbottens Museum. The name Gammlia is based on Gamli , the winning proposal in a naming competition.
history
The Västerbotten Antiquarian Society decided at a meeting in January 1886 that "a museum should be set up as a storage room for antiques in Umeå". It was initially laid out in the Ullbergska property, where the Thor apartment block is located today on Storgatan. The collection of objects in the southern section was completely destroyed by the great fire in Umeå on June 25, 1888, when most of the city was destroyed.
In 1901 the facility moved to the newly built grammar school. Due to the increasing size of the collection, the museum moved to the large warehouse in the city harbor in 1911. From the beginning, the local historical society, founded in 1919, worked on the construction of a museum building in the area of Gammlia. The building was completed in 1939.
Between 1921 and 1990 various older buildings from Västerbotten were brought to the area. The original plan was to have one farm from the northern part of the county and one from the south, but because of the high cost it was decided instead to combine some buildings from the north and some from the south of Västerbotten into a single farm.
In 1928 a ski museum was opened in a ski jump in the recreation area Fiskartorpet near Norra Djurgården in Stockholm. In 1963, however, the collections were transferred to the Swedish Ski Museum in Umeå. One of the artifacts in the museum is the oldest ski in the world.
The main building of the Västerbottens Museum was designed by the architect Bengt Romare and built in 1943.
After that, the museum was expanded several times and one of the largest expansions in 1981 made it possible for the Bildmuseet - a museum for contemporary art at the University of Umeå - to move in. In 2012 the Bildmuseet was moved to a new building on the Umeå art campus , and the Västerbottens Museum was able to expand its previous premises.
The museum's logo consists of a reproduction of a bronze chain from a thousand-year-old semen burial in Vargviken near the Vindelälven .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d Att flytta historien . In: Tidskriften Västerbotten 95-3 ( Swedish ) February 3, 2011 (accessed June 1, 2014).
- ↑ Den gamla liden blir Gammlia ( Swedish ) Västerbottens museum. February 3, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
- ↑ Lars-Erik Edlund (ed.): Norrländsk uppslagsbok: ett uppslagsverk på vetenskaplig grund om den norrländska regions ( Swedish ) (= volume 4). Norrlands universitetsförlag, Umeå 1996, ISBN 91-972484-2-8 , p. 342.
- ↑ Västerbottens museum förhistoria . Västerbotten's museum. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ Ett nytt museum ( Swedish ) Västerbottens museum. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ↑ Svenska Skidmuseet - history ( Swedish ) Västerbottens museum. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ 2014 Capital of Culture: highlights of Umeå, Sweden , The Telegraph, accessed May 6, 2014
- ↑ Verksamhetsberättelse 2009 ( Swedish , pdf ) Västerbottens museum. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
Coordinates: 63 ° 49 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 20 ° 17 ′ 21 ″ E