Utställningar

Childhoods

Sun 22 Oct — Sun 30 Sep

Children and youngsters are important in Sune Jonson's photographs treasure of images. Here we The little ones, busy with their everyday chores, extensive personal responsibilities, and at the same time engrossed in simply being a child. Of those we meet here some are familiar, others we encounter for the first time.

Priority: Minority

Sun 19 Nov — Sun 2 Sep

There are five national minorities in Sweden: Jews, Roma, Sweden Finns, the Tornedalen Finnish and the indigenous Sami. Despite having lived alongside each other for centuries, the museum’s archives contain very little in the way of collected material and descriptions relating to the lives and conditions of these minorities.

A pioneer

Thu 14 Dec — Sun 19 Aug

Lina Persson, one of Västerbotten's first female photographers

Fabuluos school

Sun 6 May — Sun 26 Aug

The swedish public school started 1842, more than 175 years ago.

Art Salon Bothnia 2018

Wed 6 Jun — Sun 16 Sep

Professionals and amateurs

Looking for Alice

Sun 17 Jun — Sun 30 Sep

Fotografen Siân Davey iscensätter en psykologisk och känslomässig resa mot att förstå och lära känna sitt barn, och blottar samtidigt okunskap och förutfattade meningar

Blue years

Fri 29 Jun —

A short documentary by Maria Mäki with two different perspectives on Sweden Finns.

Remote Possibilities

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Mishka Henner is known for his political work in the digital era and his work exists on the border between art and documentary photography.

Kalle’s dream and other realities

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Swedish art after 1945 from the Helge Linden Memorial Collection

Dagar vid havet

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29 maj 2016 – 2 april 2017
Ingen annanstans är Sune Jonsson så bildmässigt och estetiskt medvetet »grafisk« i sitt fotografiska uttryck som i Dagar vid havet.

Textiles

An entire exhibition on textiles! Clothes from past and present, socks, ties, tiny little children’s shoes and huge men’s boots. Fashions and trends, attractive and ugly, techniques, materials and fabric care.

Rock art in Sàpmi

Photos, film and images give you an insight into the representational world of Stone Age man.

The Milky Way

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The photographer Hanna Modigh on the time between childhood and adulthood – full of uncertainty, confusion, anticipation and yearning.

We Have a Dream

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21 maj – 1 oktober 2017

From a Distance

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Nine classic images by the master himself.

Skam

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Ett tema med variationer över tid

Umeå – Memories and future

Museets "umanistiska" mötesplats

Building preservation

A knowledge bank with information on local building traditions, different architectural styles, older building materials and craft techniques. Here you will find information and inspiration on matters related to the care and preservation of buildings.…

Ski exhibition

The highlight is the world’s oldest ski, which dates back to about 3 400 BC

Egilhallen

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Sjöfart och skeppsbyggeri var omfattande verksamheter längs västerbottenskusten, och säljakten en viktig näring långt in på 1900-talet. Ett par år efter att Fiske- och sjöfartsmuseet öppnades, föddes idén om att komplettera samlingen med en bogserbåt.

We are roma

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The exhibition provides a narrative of the daily lives and the history of the Roma. It is about 500 years of living as outsiders, living in the open, activism, joy, traditions, music and hope for the future. It is also about migration from India to Europe, about language and cultural heritage.

Prague ’68

Fri 24 Aug — Sun 20 Jan

During two weeks in august 1968 photogtapher Sune Jonsson and journalist Dag Lindberg were in Prague on a mission to cover »The Prague Spring«, but got instead right into the invasion from the Soviet lead Warsaw Pact armies in Czehoslovakia.

The summer of 1968 was the summer of enthusiasm in Prague. Censorship was eliminated and the …