In almost every town or village in Sweden there is a local history society (hembygdsförening). These also usually also maintain one or more old cultural heritage buildings as hembygdsmuseum ~ homestead museum.
If in Sweden you see a road sign pointing to a Hembygdsmuseum, be prepared that this can denote just about anything from a tiny dilapitated cottage open to the public only on rare occasions; to a whole park full of carefully restored old buildings with exhibitions, guided tours, café and souvenir shop etc.
These are some buildings we found in the homestead park at Gräfsnäs – on our way to their main attraction, a castle ruin (which deserves a separate post).
An old barn…
… with some kind of threshing contraption at the back
Old-fashioned haystack
Cottage with picturesque window
Old watermill
‘Narnia’ lamp post
(the Wardrobe we found a couple of days later)
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FMTSO – Vacation
5 comments:
Another great look round.
The cottage window with the flowers is so beautiful! I doubt I would have much enjoyed living in one of those buildings, but they certainly look very picturesque.
As for the Narnia lamp post - did you see the one I included in my last post?
I love old building museums, visited a great one in England, the Avoncroft museum of buildings.
This place has a genuinely olde world look to it. I have a fascination for watermills, love your shots of this one.
That was a real find. That's the sort of place I can wander round and lose myself for a while.
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