Himmelsberga Öland Museum

Borgholm, Öland, Sweden

The Öland museum is situated in the local history centre of Himmelsberga. Himmelsberga is a village of carefully preserved buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries in which the visitor can experience a genuine historical environment, and enjoy exhibitions of contemporary and older works of art from the island. In addition, the aim of the museum is to show the finest products from Ölands´s long handcraft tradition. The museum gives a comprehensive picture of the economic and cultural development on Öland and with its central location provides a particularly fine and rewarding destination for the visitor to the island.

Apart from the smallholdings, complete with carefully preserved interiors, machinery, tools and equipment, the museum is also responsible for a sinzeable Art museum and several other exhibition buildings. In short, it is amply equipped to provide a wide and varying program of exhibitions and other arrangements.

The museum shop stocks a broad range of quality handcrafts, books, souvenirs, ice-cream, postcards etc. The cafeteria offers refreshments, snacks and light meals in a traditional setting. During the summerseason, frome May 15th to August 31th, the museum is open daily.

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Himmelsberga Bygata 1, Borgholm, Öland, Sweden
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Category: Museums in Sweden

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www.olandsmuseum.com

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4.2/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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User Reviews

Tanja Pisa (7 months ago)
Interesting and educating. Gives you a very good idea how the Swedish people used to live in the past.
Jens-Eike Jesau (7 months ago)
Nice museum, great atmosphere
Arthur Pecher (8 months ago)
Felt like paying to go to a farm restaurant... Decent food...
Mitko Capanov (10 months ago)
Place with potential, but not there yet
Lupita Libertad Pineda (2 years ago)
It is a back to the past in the country side of Örland. The have a imagomundi inside of one house. Nice to see it here.
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