Since the beginning of the twentieth century the principle that has been followed in erecting buildings and farms at Skansen has been to place those from the north of Sweden in the norternmost part of Skansen and the southern farms in the southernmost parts. So, for example, the Sami camp is to be found in the northern part of Skansen while the farm from Skåne is in the extreme south.
The Bakehouse
Immediately to the east of the Älvros Farmstead there is a bakehouse. The bakehouse was primarily used for baking the thin, unleavened bread that was a staple in northern Sweden.
The Iron Master’s Farmstead
The Iron Master’s Farmstead shows how a wealthy mine-owning iron manufacturer lived in the 18th century. The buildings are from the mining district in Västmanland. With their special trade the iron masters formed a social class of their own. They differed from the ordinary farmers both financially and socially.
The Bollnäs House
The Bollnäs House is a building that belonged to a farm in Hälsingland. It was common for the large farms in northern Sweden to have a special building that was used for large gatherings on special occations during the year.
The Delsbo Farmstead
The Delsbo Farmstead comes from north-central Sweden and is made up of four enfilades surrounding a courtyard. This setting represents a large, prosperous farm in the mid-19th century. The two dwelling houses are richly decorated with wall paintings.
The Ekshärad Farmhouse
The Ekshärad Farmhouse comes from the parish of Ekshärad in Värmland. This large farmhouse was built in the 1820s by the crown´s district legal officer Jan Olof Pallin and it served as the local court as well as the enlistment office of the Värmland Regiment.
The Finn Settlement
The buildings that make up the Finn Settlement come from the forests of north-western Värmland. Finnish immigration to central Sweden increased greatly from the end of the 16th century.
The Village Hall
The building was used for educational courses and discussions of the fundamental issues of the day by the social-democratic youth organization, the reform temperance lodge and the worker´s educational association. There were also lectures, readings, lotteries, bazaars and parties.
The Summer Pasture Farm
The women folk on the farms of northern Sweden drove the livestock to summer pasture in the forest every year soon after midsummer. The dwellings here are open to visitors during the summer season, from midsummer onwards. Here you can see how the different dairy products were made, and taste the soft-whey cheese.
The Chipping House
The Chipping House was a workshop used for producing grindstones. Manufacturing grindstones was typical of Orsa and is known to have been practised there since the 17th century. In these parts it was usual for farmers to practice a craft as their small farms did not provide them with an adequate living.
The Hornborga Cottage
The cottage comes from the village of that name in Västergörland. It consists of a dwelling, cowshed and barn in a single L-shaped building. The roof is thatched with straw.
The Kyrkhult Farmhouse
The Kyrkhult Farmhouse comes from Blekinge where it served as a dwelling house on a farm. The building is probably 18th century. It consists of a low, ridged cottage with two adjoining two-storey storehouses. This type of house has existed in Sweden since the middle ages.
The Flax Mill
The Flax Mill comes from Hälsningland and probably dates from the early 19th century. Cultivating flax and weaving linen were important activitoes in Hälsingland from the middle ages onwards. The Flax Mill at Skansen is situated by a small stream.
The Mora Farmstead
The Mora Farmstead comprises buildings from the northwest of Dalarna. The ancient builings show what farms in this district looked like at the end of the 18th century.
The Oktorp Farmstead
The Oktorp Farmstead comes from Halland and was moved to Skansen in 1896. The Oktorp Farmstead was the first farm to be erected there in its entirety. It shows what a farmstead in the flat countryside in Halland looked like in the 1870s, when the Lundqvist family, Åke and Christina and their daughter Hanna, aunt Beata, grandmother Ingeborg and their two farm-hands lived there.
The Brofästet Temperance Hall
The temperance movement gradually grew into an influential popular movement in Sweden, embracing several different organizations. The Good Templars demanded “total abstinence from intoxicating liquors”.
The Sami camp
The Sami Camp (Samevistet) at Skansen is an autumn and spring camp for the mountain Sami. It shows how the mountain Sami lived at the beginning of the 20th century when they still followed a nomadic existence, moving about with their reindeer.
Seglora Church
Built in 1729, Seglora Church was transferred to Skansen in 1916. It is entirely of timber. This is a popular church for Stockholm weddings, as well as christenings and confirmations. Seglora Church is open every Sunday and for a great part of the summer season.
The Skogaholm Manor
The Skogaholm Manor shows what a manor house in central Sweden might look like at the end of the 18th century with its principal building, wings and pavilions grouped around a yard and encompassed by a fence.
The Forester's Hut
The Forester's Hut is modelled on huts in the forests of Hälsingland and was built at Skansen. Similar huts were used in conjunction with felling timber throughout northern Sweden during the latter part of the 19th century.
The Skåne Farmstead
The Skåne Farmstead is from the fertile plains of southern Skåne. It was built around a square to give shelter from the winds and the storms. The building is half-timbered, filled with bricks and the roof is thatched with straw. The oldest part of the farm dates from the 1820s but has been altered several times.
The Soldier's Cottage
The Soldier's Cottage, named Säldefall, comes from Småland. It is a single-family cottage built of logs and roofed with turf, built about 1800 and painted in the traditional red. It is typical of the numerous soldier's cottages to be found in Sweden during the first half of the 19th century.
The Farm Labourer's Cottage
On many estates and larger farms the work was done by indentured labourers who owned no land of their own. Their payment would consist of food such as grain, milk, dried peas and salted herring. They were also provided with a simple house, firewood and a vegetable patch. The Farm Labourer's Cottage is open to visitors all the year round.
The Vastveit Storehouse
The Vastveit Storehouse is one of the oldest buildings at Skansen. It was erected in the 14th century but rebuilt at the end of the 18th century. The Vastveit Storehouse comes from the farm of Vastveit in Telemark in Norway and is the only building at Skansen that is not of Swedish origin.
Väla School
This is an example of the vast number of schools that were built in the Swedish countryside in the middle of the 19th century. Parliament had passed a law in 1842 requiring school attendance on the part of all children. Here we can see what Väla School was liken in about 1910. Väla School is open to visitors all the year round.
The Älvros Farmstead
The Älvros Farmstead is made up of several buildings: farmhouse, stable, cow shed, hay barn and storage rooms, grouped so as to form a square, enclosed courtyard. The setting here represents a north Swedish farm in the early years of the 19th century, but the buildings themselves are older than that. The Älvros Farmstead is open to visitors all the year round.
Lambgiftet
The Lamb cottage is a building typical of Gotland. Here, sheep and horses could seek shelter and find food in winter.
Russgiftet
The Russ (pony) cottage is a building typical of Gotland. Here, sheep and horses could seek shelter and find food in winter.
Röda längan - The Red Row
Röda Längan – The Red Row – was built in 1814 to be the residence of servants and gardeners.
The Blacksmith's Workshop
The blacksmith’s workshop is a small low building with dirt floors. Here, mainly minor forging work that was needed for domestic use was carried out, for example, locks, fittings, hinges and hooks.
The Fulling Mill
Water fulling mills have been known throughout the country, but they have been particularly common in northern Sweden.
