- Address: Holmbrogränden, 602 21 Norrköping, Sweden
- Phone: +46 11 15 26 20
- Website on the Internet: norrkopingsstadsmuseum.se
- Year of foundation: 1981
- Working hours: 11: 00-17: 00 (Tue, Wed, Fri), 11: 00-20: 00 (Thurs), 11: 00-16: 00 (Sat, Sun), Mon - closed
In the territory of Sweden there are many museums telling about the history, culture and traditions of this country. One of the best preserved is the city museum of Norrkoping, dedicated to the life and work of entrepreneur Luis de Guire - a famous resident of this city, and not only this.
History of Norrkoping City Museum
Initially, all municipal museum organizations specialized more in art exhibitions. Only in 1972 it was decided to create a collection that would tell about the industrial history of this city.
The initiator of the creation of this cultural object was Judge Fredrik Funk, who put forward his idea in 1862 and donated part of his own collection. Under the city museum of Norrkoping , the reconstructed building of the former weaving factory located on the Mutalastrom River was allocated. The official opening took place on May 16, 1981.
Collection of Norrkoping City Museum
The main collection of Norrkopings stadsmuseum is devoted to the development of the textile industry of this Swedish city. It was here, on the bank of the Mutalastrom River, that the first weavers who arrived here at the beginning of the 17th century settled. The first weaving factories appeared in Norrkoping only two centuries later and became the reason for the rapid growth and development of its economy.
In the city museum of Norrkoping, it is told about the times when the city became the largest industrial center of Sweden, as well as about local navigation and events that occurred here in the XVIII-XIX centuries. The collection has almost 40 thousand exhibits, which are exhibited at permanent or temporary thematic exhibitions.
Visit the Norrkoping City Museum to ensure that:
- to get acquainted with the history of this Swedish city;
- to study old looms and related equipment;
- to visit the reconstructed shopping street;
- touch the equipment of an old confectionery, handicraft workshops and a store of a milliner.
Several restored industrial buildings are located on the territory. In one of them there is a café with an ancient cellar, which was created in 1600.
Near the city museum of Norrkoping there is a building that is better known as the "iron". It houses the Museum of Labor, also popular with tourists.
How to get to Norrköping City Museum?
This interesting cultural site is located in the city, which is considered the industrial center of Sweden, on the banks of the Mutalastrom River. From the center of Norrkoping to the city museum can be reached on foot. If you follow the road Hantverkaregatan, you can be at your destination in 12 minutes. In 160 m from the museum there is a stop Skvallertorget, which can be reached by bus route number 113.
Every half an hour from the station Resecentrum, there is a train # 115, which arrives at the station Norrköpings stadsmuseum in 9 minutes. It is a 6-minute walk from Norrköping's city museum.