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LKAB Iron
In Malmberget you can descend into the bowels of the earth to marvel at the immense, noisy trucks labouring in the darkness of the underground LKAB iron-ore mine. The tourist office runs daily tours at 9.30am from mid-June to mid-August and the timings allow you to take the Aitik c
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Marinmuseum
The striking Marinmuseum is the national naval museum. Dive in for reconstructions of a battle deck in wartime, a hall full of fantastic figureheads, piles of model boats, and even some of the real thing – such as a minesweeper, the HMS Västervik and Sweden’s royal sloop. There is
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Arbetets Museum
The innovative Arbetets Museum documents working life. There’s one permanent display about Alva Carlsson, a typical worker in the former cotton mill, and temporary exhibitions focusing mainly on gender issues, human rights or multiculturalism. The seven-sided building, completed in
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Moderna Museet Malmö
Architects Tham & Videgård chose to make the most of the distinct 1901 Rooseum, once a power-generating turbine hall, by adding a contemporary annexe, complete with a bright, perforated orange-red facade. Venue aside, the museums galleries are well worth visiting, with their pe
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Kalmar Länsmuseum
The highlight of this fine museum, in an old steam mill by the harbour, are finds from the 17th-century flagship Kronan . The ship exploded and sank just before a battle in 1676, with the loss of almost 800 men. It was rediscovered in 1980, and over 30,000 wonderfully preserved ite
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Kulturen
Kulturen, opened in 1892, is a huge open-air museum filling two whole blocks. Its 30-odd buildings include everything from the meanest birch-bark hovel to grand 17th-century houses. Permanent displays encompass Lund in the Middle Ages, vintage toys, ceramics, silver and glass (amon
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Sankta Maria Kyrka
Among the churchs highlights is a magnificent 17th-century baroque pulpit. This is also, famously, the place from where the nightwatchman sounds his horn. Latinskolan , next to Sankta Maria Kyrka, is a late-15th-century brick building and the oldest preserved school in Scandinavia.
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Medieval Churches
Founded by Franciscans in 1233, St Karins Kyrka is one of the most stunning of Visby’s medieval churches, with a beautiful Gothic interior. Other ruins include the magnificant St Nicolai Kyrka , built in 1230 by Dominican monks. The Helge And Kyrka ruin is the only stone-built octa
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Domkyrkan
Looking like an ode to Pippi Longstocking, the bizarre Domkyrkan has been struck by lightning and repeatedly ravaged by fire – the latest renovation was in 1995. Inside is a fine 15th-century altar and a whimsical contemporary sculpture by Erik Höglund. Don’t miss the Viking rune s
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Smålands Museum
Among the varied exhibits at Swedens oldest provincial museum is a truly stunning exhibition about the country’s 500-year-old glass industry, with objects spanning medieval goblets to cutting-edge contemporary sculptures. It even houses a Guinness World Records collection of Swedis
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Eksjö Museum
Award-winning Eksjö Museum tells the town’s story from the 15th century onward. The top floor is devoted to local Albert Engström (1869–1940), renowned for his burlesque, satirical cartoons. Eksjö was once known as the ‘Hussar Town’, and the region’s longstanding military connectio
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Kärnan
Dramatic steps and archways lead up from Stortorget to the square tower Kärnan (34m), all that remains of the medieval castle. The castle became Swedish property during the 17th-century Danish-Swedish War, and was mostly demolished once the fighting stopped. The tower was restored
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Kulturmagasinet
Down near the harbour, Kulturmagasinet is a magnificent restoration of some old warehouses and now contains the town library and Sundsvall Museum , which has engaging exhibits of the history of Sundsvall, natural history and geology. There’s a permanent art exhibition upstairs feat
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Vadstena Slott
Overlooking the lake, and considered one of the finest early Renaissance buildings in the Nordic region, Vadstena Slott was the family project of the early Vasa kings; their gloomy portraits are on view, along with a modest historical display. The furnished upper floors are the mos
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Kvarteret Bryggeriet
At the end of Prästgatan is a collection of buildings that once housed a brewery and now contain several art galleries and studios. A collective of locals puts on a knockout gallery show in the main building each summer, including work by established and rising Swedish artists. The
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Historic Buildings
The tourist office has a town-walking brochure that leads you round the best of Västervik’s beautiful old buildings. St Petri Kyrka is a dramatic mass of spires and buttresses, while the calmer St Gertruds Kyrkan dates from 1433 and has taken lightning strikes and riots in its stri
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Klostret i Ystad
Klostret i Ystad, in the Middle Ages Franciscan monastery of Gråbrödraklostret, features local textiles and silverware. The monastery includes the 13th-century deconsecrated Sankt Petri Kyrkan (now used for art exhibitions), which has around 80 gravestones from the 14th to 18th cen
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Torsby Finnskogscentrum
The ingeniously designed Forest Centre, opened in June 2014 near Lekvattnet as part of Värmlands County Museum, covers the 17th-century Finnish settlement of the area, with displays on smokehouses, hunting, music, witchcraft and the settlers trademark slash and burn style of cultiv
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Kiviks Musteri
This is a large-scale commercial operation encompassing a small museum, a vast shop selling everything from apple mustard to apple cake, an apple orchard with numerous varieties of (labelled) trees, and a restaurant and cafe (try the baked apple cobbler with custard). You can taste
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Västerbottens Museum
The star of the Gammlia museum complex, the engrossing Västerbottens Museum traces the history of the province from prehistoric times to Umeå today. Exhibitions include an enormous skis-through-the ages collection starring the world’s oldest ski (5400 years old), and an exploration
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