Västerbottens Museum is a family-friendly museum depicting the county’s history, with exhibitions and programmes on cultural history, art, textiles and documentary photography. Visit Sweden lists the interactive family exhibition Hamnstaden Umeå among its offerings. The museum’s website presents Speglingar, an exhibition using material from its art collection: painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawings, sketches and archival material.

Entry is free. Parking and Wi-Fi are also free, and a café is available. The museum has toilets with baby-changing facilities and toilets for people with reduced mobility. At Gammlia, its outdoor museum, daily activities are offered. Visitors can combine the museum’s exhibitions with activities at Gammlia. The listed options include a family exhibition, work from the museum’s art collection and daily outdoor activities. Visit Sweden also names cultural history, textiles and documentary photography among the museum’s exhibition and programme subjects. Wikidata records 1886 as the year the museum was founded or opened.