Museums

Bruksmuseet
The Mill Museum focuses on the history of Fagersta Bruk and the local population during the 20th century. The display at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 has been recreated, the cinema offers films about Fagersta and one room presents today's steel companies. There are theme exhibitions every year. Varying programs and temporary exhibitions are arranged regularly and it is possible to hire the hall for meetings and special events.

Skansenmuseet
The museum shows how a working class family with appr 10 persons lived in 1910. They were housed in one room and a kitchen. The Skansen working class housing was built by Fagersta Bruk in the early 1900s. Tours by arrangement.

Skolmuseet
Children and adults alike experience an old-fashioned school day at Klockarbergsskolan, the first school in Västanfors. The furnishings date from the 1920s. There is an exhibit about photographers and teaching material where everything from readers and posters to the feared cane is on show. You can even listen to the stern, but fair teacher. Set up a visit in advance at the Homestead Museum.

Kraftverksmuseet
The original power station furnishings from the year 1900 with machinery and water turbines form the basis for this museum. Closed in 1949, the station is now refurbished. Tours through the Homestead Museum.

Children’s Theme Park
There is theme park at the Homestead Museum with a water canal and a lock. It provides a light-hearted way for children to learn about the technology behind the iron.

As with the rest of Fagersta’s museums, the Homestead Museum is part of the Bergslagen Ecomuseum.

Västanfors Homestead Park
The Västanfors Homestead Park and Museum has a lovely location on the Strömsholm Canal. There are several furnished museum houses, including Mor Stina’s Cottage that illustrates the tiresome and hard life of a poor widow working to support her large family.

Vitmossestugan serves as the coffeehouse, serving home baked bread and cookies in a homey setting. The Ekomagasinet Country Store boasts traditional interiors in which to sell old style objects and handicrafts from the area. The second storey is used for various temporary exhibitions and a permanently set-up kitchen from the 1950s. The attic houses a theatre with hand-painted scenery and wall decorations. During the summer the scene becomes a fairytale setting for children. A museum on the grounds commemorates Fagersta native son, Rune Lindström, painter and author.

Close to the Crown Princess Victoria Lock lies the Manor House Museum, a turn-of-the-century mill owner’s home. Near the canal is a garden house from the 1700s built in memory of the canal’s founder, Johan Ulfström. The lock guard cottage housing a pottery workshop open all year. The Västanfors Church and the Power Station Museum all lie by the canal.

The homestead museum works to ensure that the old traditions and techniques remain a living part of the settings. Old-fashioned perennials abound round the cottages and outhouses.

During the weeks before Christmas an Old-fashioned Christmas is arranged in the museum settings with exhibits about Christmas as it once was celebrated. Each year visitors by the thousands return to experience the moving Christmas exhibitions.

Ekomagasinet, telephone: +46 (0) 223-175 78
Coffee House, telephone: +46 (0) 223-104 76
Tourist information, telephone: +46 (0) 223-197 00