Hennan Station

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Swedish Railway Museum

The village of Hennan lies beside Lake Hennan some 200 kilometers north of Gävle. Hennan Station was built in 1880 on the Storvik-Ange section of the Northern Main Line. It was closed in 1968 and was then used by the Army as a storage depot. For many years it was on SJ’s list of stations to be demolished.

The Swedish Railway Museum had long been looking for a suitable station to complete its station setting in the Museum grounds. Finally, after many ifs and buts, Hennan Station was brought to the Museum grounds. Hennan Station is an Ashammar-type station, a standard type often used in northern Sweden. So it fits in very well with the Museum’s other buildings.

The ground floor, with its ticket office, waiting room and goods section, has been preserved intact, giving visitors a true-to-life picture of a station of yesteryear. And to strengthen the impression, we intend to lay out a typical station garden of the period beside the station. The first part of the Hennan Station project was ready in time for TRAIN 150, when the station buildings were re-opened on 9 September during the 150th anniversary celebrations.
 

Open air museum Rengsjö Hembydsby

mid-June-Mitte Aug. daily 10.00- 17.00 h

Ryggåsstugan

Info Telefon: 0431-43 20 10
Besucher-Email: exp@nvskanes.fhsk.se

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY by arrangement

Swedish Railway Museum

Info Telefon: +46 (0) 26 - 144615

Länsmuseet Gävleborg

Info Telefon: +46(26)655600
Besucher-Email: lansmuseetgavleborg@xlm.se
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Gävle Centre of Art - Konstcentrum

Info Telefon: +46 (0)26-17 94 24
Besucher-Email: konstcentrum@gavle.se
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Gävle Konstcentrum is a venue for Swedish and international contemporary art. We gather here to experience art which reflects our own time and which poses trenchant questions about society and culture.
We offer visitors of all ages the chance to approach contemporary art in many different ways – through tours of exhibitions, presentations of art in public spaces, conversations with artists, debates, lectures, vernissages, and through creating art themselves……


Gävle Konstcentrum is part of the municipality of Gävle and is the focal point for contemporary art in the region.
Gävle Konstcentrum helps to profile Gävle as a centre for artistic activity. We put on roughly eight exhibitions of Swedish and international artists per year. We have a well-developed programme, with elements that may be directly related to the current exhibition and/or related to other current and important issues.
Gävle Konstcentrum’s activities are aimed at all age groups – we want to bring about encounters that span generations. We cooperate closely with Gävle’s schools through our educational programme which is directed towards children and young people, from preschool to upper secondary. We also work with local schools in various types of collaborative projects, extended education or refresher courses for teachers, seminars and lectures.

Gävle Konstcentrum is an important resource as regards the municipality’s public art. We are engaged in investigating the city as public space and the importance of art for and in the urban environment.
Gävle Konstcentrum is located within walking distance from the city centre and is housed in the historical building known to Gävle residents as the previously very esteemed forestry museum, Silvanum.
 

The Swedish Prison Museum - Fängelsemuseet

Tel.: +46 70 - 628 01 92

Info Telefon: +46(26)654430
Besucher-Email: info@fangelsemuseet.se

Wednesday-sunday 12 -16
(open daily in summer)

A museum in two prisons

The old Castle and County Jail of Gävleborg County anno 1732 and the former penitentiary anno 1847

“Torture and exemplary punishment” – an exhibition in the Old Castle Jail

Our exhibition in the Castle Jail is housed in the building’s original dungeons. Here you can see how criminals were tortured in public when corporal punishment was generally in use. The purpose with these punishments was to humiliate and torture criminals in public; and at the same time to prevent people from committing crimes. The more severe the committed crime was the harder one was tortured.

Death penalty was often preceded and/or followed by various other humiliating punishments. It could happen that e.g. they cut off the convict’s right hand before beheading him and afterwards quartered the corpse the parts of which they put on a breaking wheel.

Other, milder form of punishment was to sentence a criminal to “ride” the so-called wooden-horse which had a sharp-edged back. The horse was usually placed on public view on the main square, where the convict had to sit for a few hours. Not only did they pinion him but also tied heavy weights to his legs to make the torture more uncomfortable and painful.

Another instrument of torture was the so-called “Spanish violin”, used especially in military towns, which the soldiers’ wives, servants or children who didn’t behave had to bear around their necks, standing on the main square for two hours at the most.



(The models on the photos are on the scale of 1:10)
Apart from different sceneries of punishment, shackles, instruments of torture and execution you can see life-size dummies that represent criminals from the past. Step in the cells and try to imagine what it must have felt like to be behind bars! You can nearly hear flies buzz, feel fleas bite, or smell the stink coming from the latrine pot or from the people who once sat here jailed.

There were two underground dungeons in this jail, one of which is now restored. Those who refused to admit their crimes were locked in here and lived on only bread and water as well as those unable to pay the fine they were sentenced to. You can take a look at one of them through a plastic window on the floor.


Unemployed people and people on the loose were sent for hard labour. Unlike women condemned for severe crimes, men were not sent to houses of correction but to fortresses from a few years to a lifetime.



After your journey back in time of the pillory, you can enjoy a few minutes of liberty on your way to the other part of the museum, the penitentiary. Shake off the feeling of discomfort that you might have been affected with during your visit at the Castle Jail. But do not forget our principal message:
THIS HISTORY IS NOT ONLY OURS AND IS NOT ONLY HISTORY EITHER


“Hotel Hamilton” - an exhibition in the former penitentiary of Gävleborg County

When the penitentiary system was introduced in the 1840’s, corporal punishment and humiliating in public were substituted with imprisonment and hard labour. Convicts disappeared from public spotlight and were kept isolated from society instead. The dark and wretched dungeons were replaced by architectural masterpieces which reflected the idea behind the new prison system. The keywords were: supervision, control and discipline.

The new way of treating criminals was called The Philadelphia System, which was a penal system that put solitary prisoners into cells to contemplate their misdeeds and to plot a new life. The name derives from the prison built by Quakers in Philadelphia in 1828. – Eastern State Penitentiary

Inside the prison, complete silence reigned. The prisoners had to work, eat, sleep, and read religious, edifying literature alone in their own cells and had to remain completely silent all day long. This was a part of the process of building up new, decent personalities.


The Prison Museum is on the first floor of the building, including ten cells. You walk counter-clockwise at the exhibition. Besides some cells, which are designed to various themes, we have three cells, which are restored to different eras, where you can see life-size dummies representing prisoners from 1850, 1900 and 1986 (the year the prison closed down).
In cell nr 40 sits “Stickan”, as we call him. He should actually serve his sentence at the current prison in town, but due to overcrowding, he got to stay here. He is also one of us, fellow-beings, so show him some respect by knocking on his door before you go in.
We have a memorabilia in cell nr 41 – “A gallery of escape attempts” – where you can find confiscated tools of escape, syringes, needles and much much more.


“Thou shalt not kill” is the theme in cell nr 43. 17th March 1893, the police-assassin, Per Johan Petterson got executed within the prison’s walls. He was the last one to be executed in Gävle as well as in Northern Sweden before death penalty was abolished in 1921 in the whole country.
English translator: Paula Mathiasson/Andrea Kulcsar
 

TALLBO - Museum and Gallery

Info Telefon: 0290-621 89
Besucher-Email: ecke@tallbo.se
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Simeå Kvarn

Tel.: 0278-431 22

Info Telefon: 073-0224292

open June-Aug.

Järvzoo

Fax.: 0651-401 25

Info Telefon: 0651-411 25
Besucher-Email: info@jarvzoo.se
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2009: 
1/1 - 29/5 10-15  h
30/5 - 30/8 10-17  h
31/8 - 31/12 10-15 h