guitars the museum

The most amazing collection of guitars you'll ever get to see. Make sure you get the guided tour! The bar and restaurant are both friendly and cosy. Great food, pub style, and some amazing beers, both locally produced aswell as well-known brands.Well worth a visit if you are in Umeå!!

Fantastic guided tour. I´m not in to guitars but loved the stories and have to admit that the brothers were charming.

While I did go with a group, I found we were rushed through and not given a chance to visit at our leisure as there were other groups in queu. I wonder if I went alone if I would be able to truly appreciate their collection, which is quite incredible.

The owners are good story tellers, the collection is impressive and the story behind the museum is very good. Worth a visit for the connosseur.

I can't knock these guys spectacular and valuable life collection but I guess I expected some held, signed or having belonged to the top legends. The actual instrument Atkins, Page, Hendrix, Clapton, Clark, etc, played and thus 'those' guitars and moreover those songs and sounds from 'that' very object were missing for me. But I could very well see that they each have an amazing story to tell. They are therefore more than works of art. I hope some legends or estates donate their prized axes to these guys.

A museum dedicated only to guitars, can it be worth visiting? Yes, definitely! If you have the slightest interest in music from the early rock ages to today, you should take the guided tour to the museum. It is very interesting just not to see the guitars, but also the stories behind. Some of the guitars are unique. The guided tour will take around one hour, and after that you could visit the adjacent bar or restaurant.

The museum has a great selection of guitars and some other instruments. It also features a fairly large music instrument store and a nice bar and restaurant. A great and interesting place to visit when in Umeå and it is located right downtown.

Lots of memorabilia from different bands. Guitars through the ages. Example of how they are made. lots to see well worth a visit. Plus there is a lovely bar, with nice staff and good beer. Wish we had time to visit in the evening.

Nicely and with love and expertise prepared collection of hundreds of various guitars, bass-guitars and related technical stuff such as "classical" amplifiers and sound boxes (Marshall, Fender, HiWatt etc), and other nice related gadgets from the sixties and seventies such as taperecorders, vinyl record players.. Original instruments from early fifties such as the first series of Fender Broadcaster, Tele- or Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul and other pretty rare gems! Carefully prepared exhibition, plenty of space, well preserved guitars attractively situated and illuminated. We received a great guided tour from one of the twins, running this museum and got lot of further interesting details on the instruments shown. What I would suggest is to have the item descriptions in English, as well, in parallel to Swedish--only a few tables have this. Or a printed guide in English, at least. And, maybe some sound samples to get a better feeling of individual differences among those really hundreds of -- also visually beautiful -- instruments. Anyhow, brilliant job, guys!! It is definitely worth of seeing this unique collection!

We had a conference dinner plus concert afterwards there. Really nice atmosphere, and so interesting to have a dinner surrounded by guitars in a museum :)

What on earth can a guitar museum offer a completely tone deaf person?Everything.It does not matter if you are a musican and want the history of one of you work-tools, music consumer or just interested in most and everything, this is the place for you.With several hundreds (300?) of guitars from the late 40s til today organized and displayed in a very appealing manner you can spend several hours just gazing (and reading of) at it all.The museum displays the private collection of two (local) collectors and whith each guitar there is a story from how it was aquired to who was once the user.It starts out with a few models before the Stratocaster, this guitar is the start of a new era, and then there is a parade of Nocaster(s), Les Paul, Flying Vs and Paisley Red, just to mention a few. And the of course also how these instruments have developed. It all ends in the garage (everything of importance starts in a garage, and you have to see this yourself) and a music retail store (from a time period when Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran et al ruled the scene). And there are even a number guitars from Hagström.Now Umeå is a bit to the north, an one-hour flight from Stockholm. But if you have a day to spare (or can fit in a day extra in your schedule) take a flight there and see something quite extraordinarily.(And the when you get hungry, don´t hit the town hunting for food. The bar/restaurant in the building is the place to visit.)

This is a great place for those intrested in guitars! Very recommendable with many rarities. Nice to walk with the guide and get more details.

Awesome variety to see..worth the time for music loversthe collection of guitars was amazing.. Some types of guitar were very rare in the world. Very useful to get a guided tour since then you will get more details about the history of the guitars and stories about the collection

Two brothers has collected guitars for many, many years. Now they have made a very nice museum for about 500 guitars. Some of the guitars are real rarities. Ask for a guidet tour. That will give you a lot of background facts and true tales.

Besökte muséet för första gången nu i mars, och vilken upplevelse! Trevlig guide - även om hon blandade ihop några namn - och otroligt spännande att se alla de gitarrer man tidigare bara sett på bilder av kändisar och idoler. Mycket bra att det var fritt fram att fotografera, och tydliga och fina skyltar om varje gitarrmodell. Däremot tycker jag inte att de ska vara så blygsamma när det gäller att skriva ut vilka rockikoner som ägt och spelat på instrumenten! Det förhöjer upplevelsen för oss som inte är musiker själva eller så insatta i fakta om instrumenten.Vi besökte också baren, och den ska ha ett extra plus för sitt fina sortiment av både öl/ale och framför allt bourbon!