Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland
The Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland Museum is u. a. the open-air museum of the Swedish province of Västernorrlands län in Murberget , Härnösand municipality . It was created as an open-air museum and has also had a modern museum building since 1994. It is Sweden's second largest open-air museum after Skansen .
history
The Museum Association for Västernorrland was founded in Härnösand in 1880 and was the nucleus for today's museum. The initiator was Lars Landgren, the Bishop of Härnösand. In 1913 the school inspector Theodor Hellman laid the foundation for building an open-air museum for the province of Västernorrland on a site in Muberget. The first building transferred to the museum was the Airdrie bell tower. The Murbergskyrkan, a reconstruction of a medieval church, was built in 1925-29. In 1947 Bo Hellman's son Theodor Hellman took over the management of the museum. In 1978 Tommy Puktörne took over the management of the museum; today it is directed by Robert Olsson. As one of the last district museums in Sweden, the museum finally got its own museum building in 1994 with an archive, depot, restoration workshops, photo studio, an auditorium, a café and exhibition rooms.
The open air museum today
The grounds of the open-air museum are divided into several areas: Buildings from the old town of Härnösand are located around the town square : the town hall with its tower clocks, a Russian hut, the tannery and a shop with an atmosphere of the 1920s. In the village there is a farm with a small field from the Ångermanland , a school and an inn with a bowling alley. In the middle of the village stands the church with the rectory and its magnificent bell tower . In the forest there is a lumberjack's hut, an alpine pasture, a settlement for forest workers from Lapland and hills from the Bronze Age. The multi-wing mansion with garden shed once belonged to the Åvike ironworks, one of the oldest ironworks in Sweden.
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Coordinates: 62 ° 38 ′ 43 " N , 17 ° 55 ′ 27" E