4. closeness.
6 minutes from Umeå airport to city center with bus or taxi.
Walking distance between all hotels, conference venues, shopping and culture arenas.
11. World class art.
Best design school in Europe and America.
Sculpture park
Centre for contemporary art
Västerbottens museum - regional heritage
12. Guitars – the museum
Best guitar collection in the world.
A world unique venue!
13. Meet the future in umeå.
• 37 000 students (120 000 inhabitants in total)
• Leading technical innovation, science &
education environment
• Sliperiet - a new space for makers and
thinkers.
• The only Fab Lab in Sweden is located in
Umeå
15. 10 reasons to come to umeå
• New, rather unknown destination
• Excellent communications
• Walking distance to everything (including airport )
• High quality hotels
• Vibrant bar & restaurant culture
• Inspiring meeting venues
• World unique culture venues
• Leading technical innovation, science & education environment
• Nature & adventure around the corner
• We are nice people & easy to get to know!
The world famous Guitars Museum holds a unique collection of electric guitars, including those missing from both Fender and Gibson’s own guitar collections. Here you will hear the story of the two Umeå twins who collected over 300 guitars played by ….. Told by the twins themselves. This is a perfect venue for an exclusive dinner…
Sliperiet, an old wood mill - which houses the Media Lab, the Interaction Institute, the FabLab, the HumLab and the newly opened SoftLab - has 3D printers which can print the size of a car. As we are speaking they are developing a full size 3D-printer to be able to print full size houses…new material made from cellulose waste from the forest industry..
As I mentioned, nature and adventure is just around the corner. you have all different kinds of outdoor activities to choose from, snow mobile safaries, quad trips, dog sleding, take a hot bath ourdoors when it is dark and hope that you get to see the amazing northern lights.
As you see, there are numerous reasons to visit us in Umeå, we have a world class destination with something for everyone.