Torekällbergets open-air museum

Nora kvarn is the symbol of the museum.

Torekällberget (officially Torekällbergets friluftsmuseum ) is an open-air museum in Södertälje about 30 kilometers south of Stockholm , Sweden . The museum was established in 1929 and shows how people lived in the Södermanland countryside in the 19th century .

history

The museum was inaugurated on July 7, 1929 on the Amerikaberg (today Torekällberg) in Södertälje after the windmill of Nora ( Nora kvarn ) had found its new place here. The mill was thus the first building in the open-air museum and became the symbol and trademark of the museum. Råbygården was one of the first facilities .

Many historical buildings have been added since then. Especially during the 1960s, when the town center of Södertälje was redesigned, many houses threatened with demolition and destruction found a new location on the Torekällberget. The windmill burned down in 1989, but was replaced by an exact reconstruction in 1991.

The museum

Torekällbergets Museum is divided into two areas: “City” and “Country”. In the town there are buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, arranged around Tenngjutargården (pewter's yard ). There is, for example, a bakery, a pottery, a grocery store, a photographer, a handicraft shop and the historic Café Bellevue . In one of the buildings, the Strömstedtska huset , there is also the Södertälje City Museum, which has around 17,000 objects and 90,000 pictures in its collections.

In the “Land” area there are several historical farms and farm buildings from the Södermanland region. Among the most important exhibits of Råbygården from the 18th century, which include Torp Soldier Östberg and the elementary school from Lideby of 1862, the first school in the town of Salem was. Endangered Swedish land races are kept and bred in stables and enclosures .