16 Sights in Umeå, Sweden (with Map and Images)

Umeå Folkets Hus is a community centre, inaugurated in 1986, located in central Umeå at the Vasaplan bus terminal. The building houses a number of concert halls, stages and conference rooms, of which Idun is the largest and can accommodate 1150 people.

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Grön eld is a glass sculpture by Vicke Lindstrand at Järnvägstorget, which is located in front of Umeå Central Station, in Umeå, Sweden. It was, at nine meters, the tallest glass sculpture in the world at the time of its inauguration in 1970.

Wikipedia: Grön eld (EN)

Västerbottens museum in the Gammlia area of Umeå, Sweden is a county museum with responsibility for the cultural history of Västerbotten County. The museum consists of the Gammlia open-air museum, a ski exhibition, an exhibition of Fishing and Maritime, the popular movement archive of Västerbotten County and a number of Sami camps. The museum is working all over Västerbotten County with, amongst other things, numerous contract activities, mainly in the archaeological field. The museum produces the quarterly journal Västerbotten for the Västerbotten County district association.

Wikipedia: Västerbottens Museum (EN), Website

Tullmagasinet – often referred to by Umeå residents as "Tullkammaren" – is a brick building of 12,000 m² on the northern bank of the Ume River, which was originally built to house Umeå Harbour's warehouses and customs. The entrance is facing Västra Strandgatan 9, and the eastern short side faces Thulegatan 1. Just to the west of Tullmagasinet is Hamnmagasinet. The Customs Warehouse has been a listed building since 1980.

Wikipedia: Tullmagasinet, Umeå (SV)

Döbelns park is in central Umeå in northern Sweden. It is the oldest park in Umeå, created in 1865. It is named after the General Georg Carl von Döbeln, and his monument was placed in the park in 1867. This park should not be confused with "Döbelns plan" which is a smaller communal area elsewhere further west in the city.

Wikipedia: Döbelns Park (EN)

Rådhusparken is a park in central Umeå, located on the southern slope towards the Ume River, between the town hall at Storgatan in the north and Västra Strandgatan in the south, Handelsbanken in the east and Stora hotellet/kulturhuset Väven in the west.

Wikipedia: Rådhusparken, Umeå (SV)

Hamrinsberget is a small mountain in Umeå, located between the district of Berghem and the University Hospital of Northern Sweden. At the top, which rises 42 m above sea level, there is a good view of the city and the Ume River as well as a barbecue area.

Wikipedia: Hamrinsberget (SV)

Broparken in Umeå was established in 1897. The park is located on a southern slope down to the Promenade by the Ume River, next to the Old Bridge, and consists of a large grassy area with large old trees, including poplar and oak. Thanks to the seating – and after the renovation also the "food carts" – closest to Storgatan and the park's contact with the river, it is a popular place in the summer. In recent days, sportsmen have begun to use the park's sloping nature as a basis for rigging a small ski and snowboard slope during the winter months.

Wikipedia: Broparken, Umeå (SV)

Lev! is a 170-meter (560 ft) long glass artwork in the pedestrian and bicycle tunnel between the Railway Station Square in central Umeå and Haga District in Sweden. It was inaugurated on 17 November 2012 in conjunction with the festival Autumn Light and the reopening of Umeå Central Station.

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Vasakyrkan in Umeå is located in the same building as the former Hotel Vasa next to Vasaplan in central Umeå. The church is run by EFS and has activities for many ages. The Vasa Church has about 300 members.

Wikipedia: Vasakyrkan, Umeå (SV)

Döbelns Plan is a small industrial park located in the west of the city in Umeå, framed by three-storey apartment buildings and the short cross streets Smedsgatan, Repslagargatan and Prästgatan. From the eastern edge of the park, Kungsgatan starts towards the city centre, from its west side Östra Prinsgatan goes towards the Hedlunda area.

Wikipedia: Döbelns plan (SV)

Öbackaparken is a green area by the Ume River in Umeå, which stretches from the Arts Campus just south of the city centre to the bend of the river southwest of the hospital area – opposite the island. Parts of the park, like the residential area of Öbacka, were an industrial area during the first half of the 1900s.

Wikipedia: Öbackaparken (SV)

Heart of Trees is a sculpture by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, which since 2007 has been erected in many places around the world, including in Öbackaparken in Umeå, right next to the Arts Campus at Umeå University. The work – which is owned by the Baltic Group – consists of three-metre-high self-portraits in the form of bronze figures, each embracing a living, growing tree. The figures are dotted with letters in relief, which together will form the names of some of Plensa's favourite composers.

Wikipedia: Heart of Trees (SV)

Standing Man is a bronze sculpture painted with oil paint, created by British artist Sean Henry. The work was erected in 2007 for an exhibition at Galleri Andersson/Sandström at Umedalen in Umeå. After the exhibition, which received a lot of attention, the gallery offered to temporarily and free of charge expose the work on Rådhustorget in central Umeå for a few summer months. In the autumn of the same year, the Cultural Committee in Umeå decided to buy the work for SEK 810,000, for permanent placement at the square.

Wikipedia: Standing Man (SV)

Fountain Sculpture is a monumental work – designed by the Umeå-born designer Stig Lindberg and executed by the ceramicist Eje Öberg – that Umeå Municipality had placed in the middle of Renmarkstorget in central Umeå two years after the square's reconstruction in the mid-1970s.

Wikipedia: Fontänskulptur (SV)

Hoppare is an aluminium sculpture by Mikael Åberg, depicting a small child in blue boots and t-shirt, top hat and cyclops, which is placed on a brick wall in the park outside Umeå city church in central Umeå.

Wikipedia: Hoppare (skulptur) (SV)