Karlslund Manor House

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Karlslund Manor House and its gardens are a fascinating blend of natural and cultural history, only a stone's throw from the middle of Örebro. Karlslund Manor House and the buildings belonging to it are intermixed with industrial history remains and parks and gardens several hundred years old to form a particularly impressive cultural and natural environment. Originally, in the 16th century, the site of the Manor House and gardens was used for royal farm buildings and Karlslund was mainly concerned with agriculture. In addition there were other activities here from time to time, such as brickmaking, the distilling of snaps, limeworking, shipping transactions, linseed-oil production, milling and the production of electric power.
Nowadays there are museums, displays and exhibitions, shops, working artists, crafts- and arts-and-crafts people, and parks and gardens. Karlslund is open all the year round both for peaceful walks and exciting discoveries.

Karlslund Manor House was built between 1804 and 1809 by Christian Günther. In 1819 a later owner, Carl Anckarsvärd, had the manor house rebuilt and altered to the appearance we know today. The architect behind this work was the famous Carl Christopher Gjörwell, who also furnished the upper storey of the manor house and laid out the beautiful park. Gjörwell also had the Stora Salongen (Grand Salon) decorated with rare French panorama wallpapers. These show the most important ports of France and were hand-printed c. 1800. They are among the oldest rolled wallpapers extant in Sweden.
Today Karlslund Manor House is used as a restaurant and conference centre. Here one can book Sunday lunches, Christmas dinners, and so on. In the summer there is also a pleasant café on the terrace.
 

Maltidens House - Måltidens Hus

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The shop and tourist office is open year round:
August 11 2008-21 June 2009:
Mon-Fri 10.00-16.00
Sat-Sun 10.30-15.00
Guided tours Saturdays and Sundays at. 11.00 and 13.00.
Other days and times can be pre-booked.

„From Sevilla to Grythyttan!
A pavilion at a world exhibition is to answer two basic requirements: First it should be a contribution to the important event of many different nations coming together under a joint theme, and also take an active part in this event. Secondly, it should tell something about the peculiarities of the home country it repre-sents. At the 1992 world exhibition in Sevilla „The Era of Inventions“ was the common theme, and the Swedish sub-theme was „The Light of Inspiration“. This was to materialise our Þrm belief that Swedes have long been, and also will be, active in the Þeld of inventions and truly creative ingenuity. This main idea was the cornerstone of thinking in the architectural effort behind the pavilion ­ this is evident both in its design and its technical solutions. Its main body symbolizes the purity and great volume of the typical Swedish farm barn, and to this a temple-like verandah or porch was added; a kind of salutation to the Spanish host country and in appreciation of Mediterranean culture. The account of the Swedish landscape, full of contrasts, where ²The Light of Inspiration² is thriving, is enhanced by the building materials used. Thus the rotunda is covered with wood in soft Dalecarlian black. Considerable effort also went into painting, decoration, and adornment. Gösta Wessel, the artist who made the decoration of the 400 sq.m. roof above the pavilion ante-room, worked with the three basic physical colours of red, green, and blue to create the same effect as that of aurora borealis, i.e. northern lights ­ the sudden cascades of light that sometimes appear in the sky during Swedish winter nights. As a contrast, the þoor below this colourful roof consists of gray concrete blocks, which are forming an uneven pattern symbolizing ice-þoes coming adrift in the spring, or perhaps the cracks in the Archaean rocks of the north. The Pavilion today

This „Swedish temple“ was moved from sunny Sevilla in Spain to Grythyttan in central Sweden, not far from Örebro, in 1993 and its role as a centre of culinary art began in earnest in 1994. Its situation at the village entrance makes it an outstanding eye-catcher there.

Today the pavilion is indeed the centre of food, drink and meal enjoyment ­ a Nordic House of Culinary Art has been created. The exterior of the building remains the same as before but its interior has been reworked so as to suit today's activities better. The objective of the House of Culinary Art is to further long-term development and quality in the foodstuffs trade and the restaurant business. This is fullfilled by means of educational programmes, seminars, exhibitions, conferences and research projects. The House is a lively meeting-place for makers of primary produce, nutritional experts, taste researchers, restaurant keep-ers, food & drink journalists, foodstuff producers, and others with a great interest in the Meal.

The House contains the Department of Restaurant & Culinary Art and a gastronomic library, both formally part of Örebro University. Then Bergslagens Skafferi, the Bergslagen Larder (a meal store), Kalastorget, the Festive Square (a banquet room), the Gastronomy Theatre, exhibition areas, and finally the restaurant Kantinen Hyttblecket, the Canteen.

Since 1994, Örebro University has been running a 120-credit academic education programme of three years' duration for chefs and waiters in our House. A visit to the Nordic House of Culinary Art is just like a journey through Bergslagen. We start in the combined reception & meal store „Bergslagen's Larder“. It is framed by large windows all around, forming a kind of invisible border to the House Garden and the unspoilt nature of Bergslagen. The shop is filled with a fragrance of rosemary, thyme and home-made marmalade. Samples of what the Larder can offer are free to try every day ­ tasty sausages, cheese, marmalades and jams. The shop can also offer a unique assortment of complete dinnerware; linen serviettes, towels, cutlery, and glassware. In the summer there is also an outdoor coffee shop under the Northern Lights roof.

„The Furnace Plate Canteen“ is modern style, with beautiful þoors made of dark hot-rolled sheet steel. Comfortable black chairs symbolize the black soot of the former Grythyttan Furnace in the nearby wood ­ iron-making was once the life-blood of all Bergslagen. Every room in the House has spectacular pieces of good modern art, also here in the Canteen, where a good lunch or just a coffee may be enjoyed. Wine may also be ordered.

The Cookbook Museum ­ and the Wretman collection

Our House now also contains the Þrst cookbook museum in the North. This was created in genuine, robust Swedish materials such as cast iron, fragrant birchwood and old-fashioned ceiling decorations. The Museum is a framework around the large collection of cookbooks amassed by Tore Wretman, the famous chef and restaurant leader. Among its more than one thousand titles we can even Þnd one of the few extant copies of the oldest printed cookbook in the world; De honesta voluptate (On the honourable voluptuousness) from 1480!“ (Corrected text from homepage)
 

Paper Factory Museum - Pappersbruksmuseet

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Guided tours in the Museum and the new modern carton board factory.

See one of the largest beer-can collections in Europe - 22 000 cans
See packaging from your childhood and Japanese packaging art
Make your own handmade paper
Discover our cultural path near the Museum

Steam boiler building from 1889 now changed to a forge.
Tallbacken -a cottage originating
from 1834
Power station build in 1916
Diesel engine – faithful old servant
The school from1907, Jugend style
–a unique school environment
Sågstugan from the 18th century
Granbomsstugan the last genuine workman’s dwelling from1906