Agueli Museum - Aguélimuseet

Info Telefon: +46 (0)224-138 20
Besucher-Email: agueli@sala.se
http://aguelimuseet.sala.se/...

Wednesday - Saturday 11.00-16.00



Guided tours during opening hours or other times according to agreement.

"The Friberg collection is on display at the Aguéli museum. This is the country’s largest collection of Aguéli paintings but also contains many pieces by other contemporary and famous artists, including Karl Nordström, Carl Wilhelmsson, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Edvard Munch. In addition, works by Öyvind Fahlström, Albin Amelin and others have been acquired the past years. In parallel with the permanent showings, we also arrange temporary sales exhibitions." (Discover Västmanland)

 

Jazz Museum - Jazzens museum

Info Telefon: (0)220-433 30
Besucher-Email: info@jazzmuseum.com
http://www.jazzmuseum.se...

The museum was founded in 1999. It is situated in Strömsholm, about 120 km to the west of Stockholm. It is the only one of its kind in Europe, in fact it is one of just two or three in the world, the others are to be found in the USA.
The Jazz Museum consists of three parts: the collection, the concerts and the restaurant.

THE COLLECTION

The collection involves more than 7 500 items. Recently it has been increased with the music property left by the famous pianoplayer and entertainer Charlie Norman, that is more than 1500 items of a special value. And more is to come to be registered. Donators are generous, and we highly appreciate that and we will do our very best to take care of and present their gifts.

THE CONCERTS

Since the start more than 500 concerts have been arranged outdoors and about a hundred indoors. This makes probably the museum the biggest promotor for outdoor jazz music events in Sweden. Last summer was a success. More than 50 concerts intrigued masses of listeners to show up.

THE RESTAURANT

The Royal Garden Café & Restaurant is famous for its food, influenced by the Louisiana kitchen with its creole and cajun dishes.

 

Merchant shopt and theatre museum - Västanfors hembygdsområde

Tel.: (0)223-197 00

Info Telefon: +46 (0)223-175 78
Besucher-Email: hembygdsgarden@telia.com

Ekomuseum Bergslagen

" Old-fashioned merchant shop that sells handicraft, paper tapestry, sweets wrapped in paper cones, tin toys and much more. Interesting exhibitions arranged every year.

Two stories up is the exciting Theatre museum. Coffee shop, country house museum, mine owner’s museum, Rune Lindström museum and several other museum cottages. Check out the ceramics workshop in the old lock-keeper’s cottage. Technical park with hen farm in a hut and mini canal with sluices and water-power gadgets as well as playhouse for children." (Discover Vastmanland)
 

Oljeön

Info Telefon: +46 (0) 233 - 13100
http://www.ekomuseum.se/english/besoksma...

Daily guided tours summertime,
boat departs from quay by Ängelsberg station. Also dramatised tours. Combination ticket with Engelsberg Ironworks.
For tickets and information contact the Visitors centre Ängelsberg Station +46 (0)223-444 64
Tourist office +46 (0)223-131 00.

This "oil island" in lake Amänningen, is believed to be the oldest oil refinery in the world.
The birth of the oil industry occurred in 1859, when an American, Edwin L Drake, found a method of drilling and sinking a well that enabled large quantities of oil to be brought up. The price of crude oil fell drastically as a result, and the number of oil refineries grew fast. Lamp oil, particularly paraffin or kerosene, brought a much brighter light into homes and buildings.
Pehr August Alund built a refinery here in 1875. It was no coincidence that he sited it on an island, as there was a high risk of fire and explosion. Some years earlier, he had built a refinery further north on lake Snyten, which was burnt down after having been struck by lightning. Eye witnesses claimed that the fire lit up the entire lake.
Ålund imported crude oil from the USA, grease and tallow from Russia, and tar from Galicia, in Spain. The raw materials were shipped in ore barges via the Strömsholm canal.
Ålund started off as a farmer and it is uncertain not only how he became involved in oil refining but also where he acquired the technical knowledge necessary. Notwithstanding that, in 1894 he offered shares in his new company, having discovered, after seven years of experimentation, a new method of distillation. In 1876, he was given permission to produce 1,000 barrels of oil a year. The refinery had 12 retorts for distillation, a paraffin press, a central boiler room and a storehouse. The licensed capacity was later increased to 1,500 barrels a year, and the refinery was eventually shut down in 1902. Production of various lubricating oils and greases continued until 1927.
Although it was dangerous work in the refinery, as far as we can tell there were no serious accidents there. The workforce included carpenters, mechanics, paraffin washers, and refinery workers. Eight families and a couple of bachelors lived on the island in the 1890s. Workers’ quarters have been preserved. To visit the island, take a boat, the Petrolia, from the harbour at Ängelsberg. Viewing may be booked via the Fagersta Tourist Information Office at additional times to those advertised in the summer programme.
 

Ängelsberg Ironworking village

Tel.: +46(0)223-30035

Info Telefon: +46 (0) 223 - 30035
http://www.ekomuseum.se/english/besoksma...

Daily tours summertime.
Also dramatised tours.
Combination ticket with Oil Island.

The Engelsberg ironworks is considered to be one of the finest industrial monuments in the world, and was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1993.
The works gets its name from Englika, a homesteader of German origin, who came here in the 14th century. The first owner of the Engelsberg works was Per Larsson, who took the name of Gyllenhöök on being ennobled. In 1728, the Söderhielm family inherited most of the business and worked ardently to improve it. A new blast furnace was built in 1779, and this forms the basis of the one we can see today. The works was managed by the Timm family between 1825 and 1916, and the smelting house was modernized and extended. Even the forge was rebuilt. Finally, improved communications facilitated the transport of ore and finished bar iron.
The works was taken over by the Avesta Järnverk ironworks in 1916 and just three years’ later was closed down. Had it not been for the interest taken by consul general Axel Ax:son-Johnson and his descendants, the works would probably have been lost to posterity by now.
Industrial installations and gardens flourish side-by-side here. From the tree gardens, an avenue leads to the manor house, which was built in 1746 to replace the older manor that had stood there before. The kitchen was situated in the older, east wing of the house, while the west wing or annexe was built in the 1780s to accommodate Lorentz Peter Söderhielm’s 19 children (born of two marriages). The round towers are built of slagstone; one was used as a summerhouse and the other as an earth closet.
Down from the manor house is the blacksmith’s forge, one of the best preserved examples of its type. Along the road from the works can be seen typical farm buildings—granaries, stables, pigsties and the old farm office.
Workers’ homes were situated away from the central area of the works. The Engelsberg smelting house is one of just a few remaining "mulch-timber" smelteries in the country. (These are blast furnaces with an outer timber cladding on the upper section, which is insulated with sand and soil—hence the "mulch".)
The original furnace shaft, which had a length of just over nine metres, was given an outer lining of brick and raised three metres in the 1870s. What is unique about the Engelsberg blast furnace and forge is that the water-wheel, ore crusher, blower and tilt hammer are all still operational, and can be seen working when demonstrations are given.
A craft shop and café, situated near the entrance, are open during the summer in the slagbrick house—where you can also book your visit. At other times booking should be made via the Tourist Information Office in Fagersta.

 

Myrbergs Verkstadssällskap

Anders Bjälevik

http://www.myrbergs.com/index.htm...