Arjeplog’s Winter Market
We welcome you to the Arjeplog Winter Market 2025, 7-8 March.
Enjoy genuine crafts, market trading, good food, activities and festivities.
Market with almost 400 years of tradition
Queen Kristina established the market as early as 1642. Above all, it was about bartering, not least with the Sami. The market also had an important social function, as people met perhaps only once a year. They learnt about marriages, deaths and other news. People also paid their taxes, visited the priest or had disputes resolved by the chief justice. The market is still a meeting place for community, reunions and trade.
The Market Programme
Friday 7 March
Market open 10:00-17:00
10:00-17:00 Plupp at Silvermuseet. The Silvemuseet play exhibition Plupp is open during the museum’s opening hours.
10:00-17:00 Hantverkargränd: Genuine crafts at Silvermuseet.
10:00-15:00 Exhibition of Lars Lerin’s watercolours. Arjeplog Art Association is on site. Silvermuseet. Admission 80:-
13:00 Talk (in Swedish) about steamboats in Arjeplog. Olov Johansson holds a talk about the steamboats that have travelled Arjeplog’s sea routes. At Silvermuseet.
14:30 Film screening: The short film Skenet. Screened at the Silver Museum.
15:00 Story time: ‘Plupp 70 years’ in the Plupp exhibition.
Storytime at the Silver Museum.
18:00 Book discussion (in Swedish) with Petra Carlsson Redell – ‘The land, spirituality – the church and forestry’
In the book The Land, Spirituality, Petra Carlsson Redell makes a personal reflection on identity, spirituality, colonial structures and man’s relationship to nature. Based on the book, she talks with Malin Brännström about the forest. The Silver Museum offers coffee/tea.
Saturday 8 March
Market open 10:00-17:00
10:00-17:00 Hantverkargränd
Genuine crafts at the Silver Museum
10:00-17:00 Plupp at the Silver Museum. The Silver Museum’s play exhibition Plupp is open during the museum’s opening hours.
10:00-15:00 Exhibition of Lars Lerin’s watercolours. Arjeplog Art Association is on site. Silvermuseet. Admission 80:-
13:00-15:00 Pony riding. Arjeplog Riding Club offers pony rides at the market.
13:00 Lecture (in Swedish) – With the landscape as a history book
Toril and Knut Sivertsen from Tollådalen (Beiarn, Norway) will talk about their long-standing work of searching for and registering Sami cultural monuments in the Saltfjell area. Parts of the records are published in a book. At the Silvermuseet.
14:00 Lecture (in Swedish) with Carl-Oskar Lundström about murder and manslaughter in Arjeplog, at Silvermuseet.
Carl-Oskar Lundström, a genealogist from Arjeplog and archivist at the City Archives in Umeå, talks about murder and manslaughter in Arjeplog during the 18th and 19th centuries.