unity
out of diversity
The wooden horse
"Fäboden"
The building tradition
The local history movement
Arts, crafts and peasant costume
Dalarnas museum
180 museums
The realm of the "kurbits"
The Rättvik and Leksand culture centers
The Falun coppermine
Industrial history
Graphic art
Avesta Art
Carl Larsson-gården
Anders Zorn
Folk music
Dalhalla
Music by lake Siljan
Falun Folk music Festival
Jussi Björling
Jump for joy
Theatre indoors and out
Dance in Dalarna
"Film i Dalarna"
 The architect who designed Dalaras museum and the art gallery was Hakon Ahlberg. Photo: K G Svensson. |
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| DALARNAS MUSEUM THE HUB OF DALARNA'S CULTURE • Dalarna’s cultural history – its art and its crafts, its trade and its industry. The collection of traditional Dalarna folk costume, the textiles, the folk music and the typical, traditional peasant paintings. The graphic art gallery (see p.18), Selma Lagerlöf’s study and the art gallery. The collections of artefacts and photographs, the archives of recordings and press cuttings..... Dalarnas museum is a comprehensive museum and acts as a natural meeting place for those who live in or come to Dalarna. Through the permanent and temporary exhibitions, the visitor is able to study both by-gone times and what is going on today. As the central museum of the province, the museum is responsible for archaeological investigations in Dalarna; inventories are made of the cultural landscape, settlements and buildings and the museum supplies information on how objects of cultural value may best be preserved.
The museum was opened in 1962 and, from the very beginning, was both innovative and different. Much has happened and still happens within its walls. Over the years, Dalarnas museum has made a name for itself as an exciting and lively institution. Not for nothing is this the only provincial museum in Sweden to have been awarded three stars in the Guide Michelin.
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• About 120,000 visitors come to the museum every year. The number of exhibits on display today amounts to approximately 60,000. • Among other treasures, Dalarnas museum houses one of the finest collections of peasant costume and art in Sweden. • www.dalarnasmuseum.se |
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