Mejeriet, Cultural center in Lund, Sweden
Mejeriet is a cultural center in Lund featuring industrial architecture with multiple performance spaces, concert halls, rehearsal rooms, and a restaurant with bar. The venue offers local musicians and artists rehearsal spaces, runs a music school, and hosts regular concerts, poetry readings, and film screenings.
The building started as a dairy factory during the industrial era before being transformed into a cultural venue in the 1980s. This conversion showed how a practical industrial building could find new purpose within the local arts community.
The name means "the dairy", and the site is still called Kulturmejeriet. The venue is a non-profit organisation acting as an umbrella for member groups that run the events, and it belongs to Trans Europe Halles, the European network of independent cultural centres. Its two stages hold up to 675 people.
The building is accessible and offers multiple activities in one location, making it easy to experience several things in a single visit. It helps to check what events are coming up beforehand, since the programming changes and different organizations focus on different interests.
The venue takes its name from the cooperative dairy founded here in 1896, which grew into one of Sweden's largest dairy operations in the 1940s and 1950s before moving to Malmö in 1968. The red brick building with its cream brick band and arched windows still carries that origin in its name, Kulturmejeriet.
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