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Map for Borås and the Immigrant-institute
How to arrive
Pedestrians:
From Borås centrum:
from Södra torget take Bryggaregatan south.
Under the bridge for the motorway Göteborg-Jönköping take
a tunnel to the left for pedestrians.
You find a new very short tunnel to the right.
After the second tunnel you continue straight on by Landerigatan until
you come to Radio7 station in the corner. Continue the same way
but use the left pavement as there is no pavement in the right side.
After some 400 meters you come to Katrinedalsgatan 43.
By car:
If you travel by car take road 27 or 41 from the centre of Borås
towards Karlskrona/Varberg. 400 metres after crossing the motorway you see
the house on your left side. Turn left at the next signal light and then
left again in the roundabout towards Bergsäter. There are parking spaces
in the back of the house.
By bus:
Buss nr 2 from Central Station or Travel Centrum (Resecentrum) direction Södra Torget (busstorget) and
Trandared. From Centralstationen it takes about 12-14 minutes. From bus plaza
around 6 minutes. The bus stop closed to the House of Immigrants is called Daltorp and is the fourth one form Södra Torget if the bus passes Katrinedalsgatan.
There are buses every ten minutes on weekdays and every halv an hour saturday-sunday.
Every second bus drives in the motorway and you see ICA Maxi and the busstop Daltorp directly
closed to the motorway, in this case continue
to the next stop "Söderdal" and then walk some 100 meters back to town. Try this timetable
If you fly to Landvetter airport (Gotembourg) you may take the airbus to Borås.
Timetable here
Welcome!
The Immigration Institute is located in a 1600 square meter sized
house. On the ground floor there is a big assembly hall that have room for
up to 150 people, a conference room for 30 people as well as a café with a
large kitchen where associations can order or organize gatherings.
The ground floor also functions as an exhibition area. In the café there is
a permanent exhibition about the history of the walloons.
On the first floor houses the library and the archive of the
Immigration Institute which contains around 10 000 monographies on migration
and over 600 magazines on migration or by immigrants. A special room on
the first floor contains the over 50 000 paper cuttings on immigrants that
has been collected since 1978. There is also an exhibition about
immigrants in Borås located in the 'Borås Room'.
The second floor is recerved for scientists and smaller meetings.
Renting the House of Immigrants
The House of Immigrants is suiteble for conferences for between 20 and 90 people and for seminars for up to 150 people.
As well as the big assembly hall there are also three small rooms that for between 15 and 30 people to let.
Coffee, lunch and dinner can be arranged.
(The picture on the right shows the café/dineingroom and the picture above shows the meeting room).
Do you want to know more?
Write or call:
Immigrant-institutet
Katrinedalsgatan 43
S-504 51 BORÅS, SWEDEN
Phone: +46-(0)33-13 60 70.
Fax: +46-(0)33-13 60 75.
E-mail: migrant@immi.se
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