Exhibitions

13 October 2019 – 23 February 2020
Sebastian Mügge examines Västerbotten county’s variable identities

22 September 2019 – 26 January 2020
Jenny Rova challenges self-portrait's boundaries

22 September 2019 – 26 January 2020
Women's own portraits

17 March 2019 – 26 January 2020
Sune Jonsson as a writer

30 juni 2019 – 13 januari 2020
Västerbottnisk folkkonst

At the age of nineteen Hjalmar Höglund migrated to Canada.

2 December 2018 – 8 September 2019
What does the garrison town Umeå tells? Exhibition and collection at the same time.

2 March – 30 August 2019
Maria Gullberg is the foremost innovator of crocheting in Sweden.

26 May – 25 August 2019
Photographer Inuuteq Storch gives a multilayered and nuanced image of today's Greenland

7 April – 9 June 2019
Embroidered stories by Britta Marakatt-Labba

19 December 2018 – 2 June 2019
All people are beautiful when they work, the photographer and filmmaker Jean Hermanson meant.

5 May–2 June 2019
Academy of Fine Arts: Bachelor's Exhibition

10 March – 19 May 2019
One hundred years ago, a decision was taken in the Swedish Parliament to introduce universal and equal suffrage.

Linda Maria Thompson continues her investigation of the visualization of the migrant experience

1 February–17 March 2019
Here children may play in the hut, sail a raft on the river and meet the various animals

Paintings by Helena Wikström

Picasso paraphrased

20 October 2018 – 3 February 2019
Six artists explore the polarized images of the Nordic countries

23 September 2018 – 20 January 2019
Artist Nic Langendoen in retrospective

In august 1968 photographer 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

29 June – 9 December 2018
A short documentary by Maria Mäki with two different perspectives on Sweden Finns.

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.

Make everyday fantastic, make the fantastic into everyday

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

Professionals and amateurs

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.

6 May – 26 August 2018
The swedish public school started 1842, more than 175 years ago.

Lina Persson, one of Västerbotten's first female photographers

18 February – 27 May 2018
Mishka Henner is known for his political work in the digital era and his work exists on the border between art and documentary photography.

Swedish art after 1945 from the Helge Linden Memorial Collection

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.

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

Nine classic images by the master himself.

21 maj – 1 oktober 2017

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.

Ett tema med variationer över tid