Malmömässan is an exhibition and convention centre

Convention center

A convention center is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees...

 in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

, Sweden

Sweden

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The Convention Centre in the west harbour area of Malmö closed on 31 March 2010 and a new building is under construction in Burlöv to be opened in 2011.

The old building was originally built as a manufacturing

Manufacturing

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 hall by the Kockums

Kockums

Kockums AB is a shipyard in Malmö, Sweden owned by the German shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel. HDW itself is a subsidiary of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems....

 shipyard

Shipyard

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, it was turned into a SAAB factory following the Swedish shipyard crisis of the late 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1990s MalmöMässan AB

Bachelor of Arts

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, earlier based in Stadionområdet ("The stadium area", where Malmö Stadion

Malmö Stadion

Malmö Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Malmö, Sweden which is currently the home of Swedish football Division 4 club IFK Malmö and athletics club MAI...

 and Malmö Isstadion

Malmö Isstadion

Malmö Isstadion is an indoor sports arena, located in Malmö, Sweden. The capacity of the arena is 5,800 and it was built in 1970.It is the former home arena of the Malmö Redhawks ice hockey team, and was replaced as such by the Malmö Arena, which was inaugurated in November 2008.International...

 are located), relocated there.

In 1992, the Isstadion played host to the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

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The facility has an area of 20,000 m², divided into exhibition halls and a conference centre. The biggest annual event held there is Skånemässan ("The Scania

Scania

Scania is the southernmost of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden, constituting a peninsula on the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, and some adjacent islands. The modern administrative subdivision Skåne County is almost, but not totally, congruent with the...

fair") held in September and with about 25,000 visitors.