Biological museum

Info Telefon: 019 - 21 65 16
Besucher-Email: karolinskaskolan@orebro.se

The museum is open to the public during the summer months. In addition, the museum can be visited by groups and arrangements can be made through the school’s reception.

Karolinska Universities Biological Museum is one of Örebro most unusual sights and popular with both children and adults. The museum is not just a museum, but also a museum of a museum! Most museums of this type has disappeared over the years, but here you can still see how one taught the students about animal life around the turn of the century.

The Biological Museum can be found in the northernmost building at the Karolinska University (appropriately called the 'Siberia'). There are over 1,000 stuffed animals (about 700 are birds) on a relatively small area. The majority are from the Nordic countries, but there are also many exotic exhibits as well, such as a tiny hummingbird, the large tusk from a Narwhal whale, a polar bear and an elephants head! The majority of stuffed animals came to the museum in the 1800s, but were carefully renovated in the 1980s when the museum reopened.
 

Hjalmar Bergman Museum

Fax.: 019 - 21 63 30

Info Telefon: 019 - 21 62 20
Besucher-Email: wadkoping@orebro.se

In Upper Vallbygården in Wadköping, you can visit Hjalmar Bergman Museum with exhibitions on the life of author Hjalmar Bergman from Örebro. There is also furniture, books and other things from his office, and a multimedia CD.
 

The School Museum in Wadköping

Fax.: 019 - 21 63 30

Info Telefon: 019 - 21 62 20
Besucher-Email: wadkoping@orebro.se

Örebro School Museum is located in Handskmakaregården in Wadköping. See an old classroom, old wall charts from the past and much more.
 

Wadköping Open air museum - Friluftsmuseum (Skanzen)

Fax.: +46(19)216330

Info Telefon: +46(19)216220
Besucher-Email: wadkoping@orebro.se
http://www.orebro.se/astraket/inenglish/...

Open all the year round.
May–August: Tuesday-Sunday 11–17. Café open daily 10‑20
September-April: Tuesday-Sunday 11-16. Café open daily 11-17

On the eve of a public holiday open until 14.00 h.In the middle of Örebro, on the banks of the River Svartån, you will find Wadköping open-air museum - the Skansen of Örebro. With its wooden buildings and houses Wadköping gives an idea of the older settlement and town environment. Wadköping, which was established here and inaugurated in 1965, comprises buildings and houses moved out here from the middle of Örebro. The town street runs through the middle of Wadköping with houses on either side. The one side, with its low-proportioned, red-painted buildings shows the 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings, while the other side shows the urban environment after the great fire of 1854. Wadköping open-air museum acquired its name via the writer Hjalmar Bergman: this is what he calls the area where he grew up. The name occurs, for instance, in his novel, "Markurells i Wadköping", where his descriptions included inspiration from Örebro, the town of his childhood. Wadköping includes houses, theatre and exhibition/display premises, museums, craftsmen, small shops, a café, bakery, grocer's, second-hand bookshop, etc.




Museums, displays and exhibitions

There are several exciting museums and displays at Wadköping. Kungsstugan and Cajsa Warg's House are the most interesting of the buildings.
Kungsstugan (the King's Lodgings) has acquired its name from the fact that, according to tradition, Duke Karl, later to become Karl IX, spent the night there on two occasions when he visited Örebro. The house is medieval in type and was originally part of a building complex in Järntorget (Iron Square). On the upper floor there are well-preserved wall and ceiling paintings from the 1580s and 1620s, which are shown on different occasions. The displays at the King"s Lodgings will give you an introduction to Wadköping open-air museum and its history.
Cajsa Warg's House is from the 17th century. The building was intended to provide accommodation for guests and belonged to a property which was owned c. 1700 by the treasurer of the county, Anders Warg, father of the famous Swedish cookery-book writer, Cajsa Warg. Here, amongst other things, you can see fine wall paintings from the 18th century.
The house has displays on Cajsa Warg, both as a cookery-book writer and a person.
In the spring and summer of 2003 new and exciting displays will be inaugurated in Cajsa Warg's House. In conjunction with the new display on Cajsa Warg we are laying out a herb garden. This will contain herbs, spices and plants used by Cajsa Warg in her food preparation.
Hjalmar Bergman, who was born and grew up in Örebro, is one of the best-known authors in Sweden. Here at Wadköping you will find the Hjalmar Bergman Museum with books, furniture and mementoes.
In the Jeremiah Cottage there once lived a poet called Levi Rickson, alias Jeremiah the Inconsolable, who has given the house its name. Here you can get an idea of Jeremiah the Inconsolable"s writing den.
In Kronblom's Kitchen, fitted out in the style of the 1930s, lies Kronblom and recovers himself on the sofa. Here there is also a display on the story of Kronblom.
The School Museum is to be found in Skeppargården. Here is an account of 1920s school history.
New and interesting exhibitions of art, arts and crafts, and craftwork are constantly being shown in the Wadköping Room and Craft Shop.

Shops and craft workshops

Nowadays various small shops and craft workshops are to be found in the buildings at Wadköping. You can smell the newly-baked bread from the bakery a long way off. In the grocer's shop you can find the traditional cone-shaped bags of sweets, and tea, and many other small things which were available in such shops in the past. Wadköping café and dining room offer good food, bread and cakes, and coffee and tea, and beer and wine are also served in these unique surroundings. In the Lexica bookshop, which sells second-hand books the bookshop cat pads around among 25, 000 volumes on all sorts of different subjects - an eldorado for book lovers. Wadköping has its own smithy too, from which can be heard the heavy blows of the hammer as the smith works on the iron. Both articles for everyday use and presents are sold in the small shops and craft workshops.



For children

Wadköping is an oasis for children and families. There is much to discover in such an exciting cultural history environment! In Lekladan (the Play Barn) there is a "byre", an old grocer's shop and a "wendy house". Puppet shows are put on in the Puppet theatre, where there is also story telling. Events for children take place all the year round and include traditional Midsummer celebrations, Tuesday meetings with clowns, and conjuring and music from June to August. At Christmas one can meet Tomten (the kindly Christmas brownie), and potter about in his workshop.



Events

Wadköping is a living open-air museum where historical and cultural events take place all the year round. It offers opera at Spelgården (the Playhouse), seminars and lectures, theatre, musical entertainment, dance, Christmas and Easter markets, church services, etc. For full programme details see www.orebro.se/wadkoping or ring 019‑21 62 20.

Picture: Ullabritt Jonsson

 

Örebro Castle - Örebro Slott

Fax.: +46(19)106070

Info Telefon: +46(19)212121
http://www2.orebro.se/turism/slottet/eng...

September-April:
Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00 h
Sat-Sun 10.00-14.00 h

June-August:
Mon-Fr i10.00-18.00 h
Sat-Sun 10.00-16.00 h

The 700-year history of Örebro Castle

In the Middle Ages, Örebro became an early centre for the iron trade, and several German merchants helped in the building up of the town. In the centre lay, just as it does to this day, a square with a town hall and the then recently-begun Church of Saint Nicholas.
At about the same time work was begun on a defence tower at the strategically important point on the east side of the bridge.
The medieval defence tower

The tower was square, about 30 metres high and surrounded by a 7-metre high and 3-metre thick ring-wall. In the 14th century the fort was enlarged by King Magnus Eriksson.
The alterations began with a three-storey building to the south, which was followed by similar constructions in the north and west, the result being a U-shaped complex in which the original tower was still the highest point.
In the Middle Ages the castle was involved in warfare repeatedly, and up to 1568 it was besieged in all nine times. However, there was no question of any major alterations until the latter part of the 16th century.
The Duke’s Renaissance castle

In 1560, King Gustav Vasa’s youngest son, Karl (later King Karl IX of Sweden) began an ambitious extension- and rebuilding programme of the castle. The old stone stronghold was transformed into a magnificent Renaissance castle.
The entire building was now as tall as the original 13th-century tower, and an east side completed the square plan of the castle. At the corners four massive cannon towers had been built, and there was a substantial curtain wall round the castle. Finally, the whole building had been plastered in a yellow-white tone and the windows were framed in red.
Even before the castle was finished, it was often used by both Karl IX and his son Gustav II Adolf. When the buiding work was finally completed in 1627, the state did not have any real use for it. The new monarchs preferred other residences, and slowly but surely Örebro Castle began to fall into disrepair.
The 1750s: New ideals in style

It was not until 1758 that it was finally decided to begin repairs on the much decayed and almost uninhabitable castle.
Since an attack against the castle was no longer to be feared, all of the defences were removed. Instead, courtyards and terraces were laid out, and new stone bridges replaced the old wooden ones. Finally, the old caps on the towers were replaced with almost completely flat tin roofs. Inside, a beautiful apartment was fitted out which has ever since been the official residence of the County Governor of Örebro.
The Örebro castle of our day

In 1897-1900 the castle was again renovated. Historical romanticism held sway in Sweden and the architect strove to create a synthesis of all the epochs of the castle. Here would indeed be recreated a castle worthy of having been the residence of such great men in Swedish history as Engelbrekt, Gustav Vasa and Gustav II Adolf.
A stepped gable on the west side delineated the 13th-century defence tower. The plaster was chipped away to create a more medieval atmosphere, and new roofs on the towers signified the Renaissance castle, and the west tower was raised one storey.
Örebro Castle is one of several Vasa castles in Sweden. In a number of them the interiors have been better preserved, while Örebro was continually renovated to suit the times, which has been both good and bad. The successive rebuildings mean of course that there are few interiors preserved from bygone days, but on the other hand, Duke Karl’s old stone castle in the heart of Örebro is today a truly living and open castle.
 

Örebro County museum - Örebro läns museum

Margareta Hildebrandt, 019-602 87 72
Fax.: 019 - 602 87 49

Info Telefon: 019-602 87 00
Besucher-Email: info@olm.se

Tue, Thu-Sun 11:00-17:00
Wed 11:00-21:00 h.

In 1950, a small art gallery was built in Slottsparken (The Castle Park) and was extended during 1963-64 to today’s County Museum. The masterpiece was created by the architect Nils Tesch, with its harmonious façade with the large rectangular windows, the quiet inner garden and the exhibition hall with beautiful ceiling. The County Museum is a good example of the principle of "little outside, big inside".
 

Karlslund Manor House

Info Telefon: 019 - 27 07 88
Besucher-Email: jander@karlslundsherrgard.se

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

Info Telefon: +46(591)34060
Besucher-Email: info@maltidenshus.com
http://www.maltidenshus.com/index.asp?si...

Måltidens Hus AB

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

Info Telefon: +46(0)581-37 209
Besucher-Email: froviforsmuseet@korsnas.com
http://www.froviforsmuseet.com...

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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
 

Vallby Open Air Museum - Vallby Friluftsmuseum (Skanzen)

Fax.: 021-357674

Info Telefon: +46 (0)21-39 80 70
Besucher-Email: vallby.friluftsmuseum@vasteras.se
http://www.vallbyfriluftsmuseum.se/merin...

Open every day, year round, 10:00 A.M-5:00 P.M
Museum buildings are open during the summer season. Workshops, boutiques and the restaurant may have separate hours.

Vallby Open Air museum is located about 2 km north of Västerås city center, along highway E18. By car: take the Vallby exit from E18 and follow the signs for Vallby Friluftsmuseum (Vallby Open Air museum). Free parking. By bus: take bus number 10 or 12 from Västerås city center. Get off at a stop near the museum.

"Vallby Open Air museum was founded in 1921 to present a picture of life in Västmanland county. Today, the museum features a number of exhibits that represent the county through time, such as an eigtheenth century farmstead, a soldier's cottage, an "old town" with buildings relocated from the cities of Västerås and Arboga, the grand residence of a copperworks owner, an ironmaster's farmstead, a sawmill and an early twentieth century free church, village school, and open-air theater.

Vallby museum strives to recreate and show historical environments as completely an authentically as possible. At the farmstead, for example, visitors can see how people lived, what certain animals was kept, and what was cultivated in gardens and fields.

Vallby museum's animals and plants are a part of the museum's effort to preserve Sweden's biological heritage - a kind of live exhibit that includes rural animal breeds, as well as endangered plant species, such as older grain types, rare decorative plants, and certain fruit tree species. Information about vintage architecture and period decorating is also available." (Discover Västmanland)