Land of the Midnight Sun

Welcome to The Land of the Midnight Sun, When The Night Turns Into Day

At the beginning of winter a team of snow builders, architects, artists and also designers from all over the world get together in the town of Jukkarsjärvi, north of the Arctic Circle.
Under the guidance of the Ice Hotel Art and Design Group, the Ice Hotel is created anew each year.
This building is started up early in November each year. The most important tools used to build The Ice Hotel are snow guns, which is sprayed onto enormous steel forms, then left to freeze. After a couple of days, the forms are removed leaving free-standing corridors of snow. Dividing walls are then built in order to create the rooms. Ice blocks which are harvested from the Torne River in spring are then transported into the hotel where the various artists create the hotel.
Many of the artists that build the hotel are experienced ice artists, but many of the artists on the team have never before experienced temperatures below sub-zero temperatures.

Every year a unique Ice Hotel is re-created from scratch.
When spring arrives and the sun starts to thaw the walls of ice and snow, the hotel is finally closed and is returned to the Torne River.