Vasterbottens museum

Vasterbottens museum in the Gammlia vicinity of Umeå, Sweden is a county museum with obligation for the cultural history of Västerbotten County. The museum includes the Gammlia open-air museum, a ski exhibition previously the Swedish Ski Museum, an exhibition of Fishing and Maritime previously the Fishing and Maritime Museum, the popular motion archive of Västerbotten County and some of Sami camps. The museum is operating throughout Västerbotten County with, among different things, severa agreement activities, mainly within the archaeological field. The museum produces the quarterly journal Västerbotten for the Västerbotten County district affiliation.

The Västerbotten County Antiquarian Society reached a decision at a assembly in January 1886 that "as a storage room for antiquities a museum will be established in Umeå." It changed into first of all positioned in the Ullbergska assets in what these days is the block Thor on Storgatan. The Southern branch's collection of objects had been completely destroyed by way of the super city fireplace in Umeå on 25 June 1888, whilst most of the town became destroyed. In 1901, the status quo relocated to the newly constructed grammar faculty. Due to the increasing size of the collection, the museum moved to the huge warehouse with the aid of the city port in 1911. From the very start the local historic society, which turned into formed in 1919, turned into running for the status quo of a museum building within the Gammlia location. The building became finished in 1939.