Venue

The 19th TICCIH World Congress was hosted at Kiruna Folkets Hus, the municipal cultural house in the centre of Kiruna, with parallel sessions and workshops at the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) Kiruna campus. Both venues sit within walking distance of each other in Sweden's newly relocated city centre.

Primary venue — Kiruna Folkets Hus

Kiruna Folkets Hus is the main cultural meeting place of Sweden's northernmost city. The building hosted all plenary sessions, the opening and closing ceremonies, and the main exhibition space. With a seated auditorium of approximately 900 people, it was well suited to the congress's record-breaking 300+ speaker schedule and community audience.

Secondary venue — LTU Kiruna Campus

Luleå University of Technology's Kiruna campus hosted the academic parallel sessions and the post-congress early-career workshop. LTU is the academic host of the 2025 congress and the home of the Division of Industrial Environmental and Energy Engineering, which leads industrial heritage research in the Nordic Arctic.

Field venues

A number of sessions took place on-site at working and former industrial facilities, including the LKAB visitor mine, the Abisko hydroelectric complex, and the Malmberget heritage district. See the excursions page for the full list and routes.

Accessibility

Both primary venues are step-free and offer accessible toilets, hearing-loop equipped auditoria, and designated wheelchair spaces. The congress provided live captioning in English for all plenary sessions. Requests for additional access support were handled by the organising committee.

Getting to Kiruna

Kiruna has direct scheduled flights from Stockholm-Arlanda (approx. 1h 40m) with onward connections to most European hubs. The Norrlandståg overnight sleeper train from Stockholm and Gothenburg is a popular lower-carbon alternative (approximately 16 hours). A detailed travel guide — including visas, ground transfers, and Arctic summer weather — is on the practical information page.