Norrbottens Museum

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Norrbottens Museum is the county museum for Norrbotten County, Sweden, and is located in the Luleå city center with an associated archive and library in Björkskatan. One of Sweden's 24 county museums, the Norrbottens Museum aims to preserve and transmit the cultural history of Norrbotten. Its collection includes archeology, ethnology, art, history, and culture. The museum covers the entire county, which covers a quarter of Sweden, and museum experts work throughout the region to help manage cultural projects, exhibitions, archaeological research and pedagogical activities. The museum was founded in 1886, and has a large collection of images and objects associated with Norrbotten. The museum's image archive contains more than 2 million images. Many of the objects and photographs from the museum's collect can also be viewed online via its Carlotta database.

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