The 8 Best History Museums in Vastmanland County, Vastmanland County

"Thorshammars Verkstads AB" was registered 1876 and is one of Swedens oldest incorporated company. Todays workshop was build in 1887. At 1900 the employment was at large with 33 workers. The workshop closed 1983 and everything that was left is still there! "Thorshammars" will now turn into a working museum.

The oldest oil refinery in the world is located on Oil Island (Oljeon). The factory was built in 1875 on Barron in the lake Amanningen outside the small community of Angelsberg. The factory supplied the Swedish households with gun grease, machine grease and kerosene until 1927. Today the factory is a museum which offer guided tours in the summer.

Vallby Open Air Museum is open every day of the year. Here you can experience and learn about the cultural history of native breeds and plants, buildings and life in former times.

Beautifully situated by the canal of Stromsholm/Kolbacksan is one of the most popular attractions in Vastmanland, Sweden. Here you find a giftshop with Swedish high-quality handicraft, postcards, gifts and candy as well as a cafe with home-made cinnamon-buns, cookies, cakes and sandwiches. The Giftshop - Old style with many presents and exibition. The Cafe - With home-made cinnamon-buns in a beutiful building. Events - Year around, like midsummer celebration, Christmas as in the old days . The kids homested - A lot of fun to do for the kids. Guided tours - Groups can book guided tours of the Homestead Museum all around the year. Rent a venue - Several venues to rent. Also, there is a beautiful park and garden, and museums in old buildings such as the mansion-wing and many small cottages that show the history of living and working in Sweden. Sometimes the buildings are open for visits on one's own, and it's always possible to book a guided tour. Welcome to the most open Homestead Museum in Sweden - 364 days a year!

Bergslagens medieval museum with "Nya Lapphyttan" is the outdoor museum that tells the story about the medieval in Bergslagen. Here you will hear the tales of manufacturing iron from 1000 years ago - but still modern today! Did you know, when Sweden became a kingdom the iron from Bergslagen was vital? You will also find the visit center for Norberg here.

"Mossgruveparken" is an abandoned mine field with deep and water filled opencast. Iron ore was removed from here during the medieval until the early 1900s. A guided road leads through tha park. The oldest mining method to break mountains is with fire. When gun powder, nitroglycering and dynamite came you could explode holes. Mining technique, tools and machines is shown in the museum.