From Torne River to Paris: Dipnet fishing on the way to Unesco
The Museum of Torne Valley, Tornio
- 6.6.2025–14.9.2025
The multinational nomination Torne River Dipnet Fishing – Living Heritage across the Swedish-Finnish border, submitted in spring 2025 to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is now being presented to the public in the form of an exhibition.
The exhibition presents the cross-border dipnet fishing culture and introduces the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The exhibition focuses on the nomination dossier, submitted to Paris with the signatures of the Ministers of Culture, but also introduces other Finnish and Swedish elements already inscribed on the list. The differences between intangible cultural heritage and World Heritage (as well as other UNESCO lists) are addressed clearly yet sensitively.
The exhibition consists of the following elements from the nomination dossier:
Answers in the nomination form
Ten photographs
A 15-minute documentary film
Letters of consent from the local community
The exhibitions main language is English, but all the texts can be found also in Finnish, Swedish and Meänkieli. The exhibition uses visual elements from the Torne Valley Dipnet Culture project.
In-house production.
Museum contact details
The Museum of Torne Valley
Torikatu 4, 95400 Tornio
050 597 1559
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Päämäärä:
The Museum of Torne Valley, Torikatu 4, 95400 Tornio
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Admission fees
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Mon | Closed |
Tue | 11:00-18:00 |
Wed | 11:00-18:00 |
Thu | 11:00-18:00 |
Fri | 11:00-15:00 |
Sat | 11:00-15:00 |
Sun | 11:00-15:00 |
Museum is open normally. The office is open mon-fri 9-15 +358 50 597 1564.