The Culture & Leisure department Lidköping municipality

The culture & leisure department takes part of building a prosperious, healthy, creative and welcoming municipality for its inhabitants and visitors. 110 employees. 125 million SEK turnover. Includes: - Public library. - Sports facilities (arenas, soccerfields, swimming bath, icerinks…) - Museum. - Culture production and planning Youth activities - Grants to sports and culture societies.

Office of sports and leisure Provides the citizens of Lidköping with sports and lesiure facilities.

Lake Vänern Museum Focused on nature, culture and the vast lake Vänern. The exhibitions offer thrilling experiences comprising history as well as present times, castles, churches and power, ships and ship wrecks, fishing and agriculture, environment and climate, and last but not least, famous and unknown people from Lidköping. The aquarium department has been rebuilt and enlarged and contains, among other things, a big aquarium of 20 cubic meters. Many hands-on activities and experiments for both young and old. Lake Vänern Museum a creative, interesting and entertaining meeting place!

Culture production and planning Youth activities Public culture in different arenas. Music, theater, dance, festivals… Support and facilities for children och youth activities.

Grants to sports and culture societies Makes it possible.

The Public library Re-opened january 2013 Three library branches, one ”books on wheel”. 25 persons working. Art gallery, a café and an archive.

To meet the demands of a modern library The public library – a venue for knowledge transfer, culture and democracy. The ”traditional library” are more and more evolving into an public arena with a mix of different activities in the field of learning and culture. The target groups include all ages. To offer the library as an arena for individuals, the civil society and others to use. New behavourial patterns by our visitors. New working methods and generous opening.