the hippie library bus 93 miles north of the arctic circle

By Cheryl Janis on November 14th, 2008

Or we could simply refer to it as the modern hippy love library bus designed for the town of Kiruna, Sweden where it serves as a beacon of bright light for its citizens. That’s an important asset for a place where the sun “disappears” at the end of November.

Peter Thuvander and Martin Hedenström of Swedish design group Muungano have won the Swedish Library Bus of the Year award for this library bus.

The Swedish Librarian Society gave the award to the design group who created this fabulous art car. The library bus offers listening stations, a library, internet access, a place to watch movies and hang out, a beautiful view of the landscape and bright, bright colors.

















Daytime view of the exterior of the bus. What a wonderful creative piece of art that gives back to the community and stimulates education, music and the arts.

Designer Peter Thuvander remarked about the bus, “except from distributing media the bus will also function as a place for people to communicate on the web and enable meetings between different groups in the community. Because of the lack of sunlight during most of the year in the north the bus will be like a lantern when dark to attract people and light up the surroundings.”

Inspiring indeed and absolutely magnificent.