Take part in a number of Norrbotten cultural environments.
Here you can as a digital visitor discover some virtual cultural and historical environments in the county. Use your computer, tablet or mobile. The environments are created in 360-degree panorama and by clicking, zooming and spinning you can look around.
In a hundred meter long culvert under Skeppsbrogatan in Luleå, there are about 40 graffiti paintings from 1991. From the beginning, this was an escape route from the Spegeln cinema in the Shopping department store. After the cinema closed in 1986, the venue was used for youth events and it was in connection with this that the culvert was decorated with graffiti paintings. Because the paintings are indoors, they are uniquely well preserved.
Kiruna City Hall was designed by architect Artur von Schmalensee and built in 1959–1963. Schmalensee won an architectural competition with his design, which he called the "Igloo" because of its low entrance into a large open hall with high levels of light. The town hall was awarded the Kasper Salin prize in 1964 for "Sweden's most beautiful public building".
Kiruna church was designed by the architect Gustaf Wickman (1858-1916) and inaugurated in 1912. The sculptor Christian Eriksson has made several of the church building's sculptures, as well as the relief above the entrance gate. Prince Eugen has painted the altarpiece, which depicts a stylized, sunlit landscape.
On June 14, 1963, someone set fire to Haparanda church, which burned to the ground. Four years later, the church that stands here today was consecrated. The architect Bengt Larsson from ELLT designed the building, which he named "Rent hus". The new church was a stark contrast to the burnt-down, traditional wooden church from the 1800th century that was painted in bright linseed oil colours. Or for that matter, a contrast to the majority of churches in Sweden.
Gammelstad's church town is the country's largest and best preserved, and on 7 December 1996 the church town was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List and thus became a world heritage site. Gammelstad's church town is over 400 years old and contains 405 church cottages with six stables and a retreat. The church town spreads out around the large medieval church.
