Gusta stenmuseum
Outdoor exhibition in the old Gusta quarry in Vamsta about the limestone, the stone industry of Brunflo and the district’s development from farming village to urban settlement.
Have only individual sections read aloud
About the museum
Gusta stone museum is in the old Gusta quarry in Vamsta, where the stone industry of Brunflo began. The industrial era of stone started in 1902, when the master builder Leonard Theodor Ellström from Östersund bought a limestone hill from the farmer Carl Petter Svensson. A factory was built in the quarry, and there gravestones, stairs and floors, façades and portal surrounds and sculptural stonework were made, with the help of, among other things, a stone-planing machine. The Gusta industry became very important for Brunflo’s development during the 1900s.
Brunflo local heritage society opened the Gusta stone museum in 2002. The museum tells of the development of limestone, the Gusta factories and the district’s development from farming village to urban settlement. The exhibition is outdoors along a path, where pictures and stories show the activity over the years.
The quarry is also a geological natural monument, and SGU (the Geological Survey of Sweden) has identified it as the best available illustration of the crustal movements that affected the eastern edge of the mountain bedrock.
Highlights
- Outdoor exhibition along a path in the quarry
- The history of the Gusta factory and the stone industry of Brunflo
- Geological natural monument with visible bedrock
- Geocaching that follows the history of the Gusta factory
Permanent exhibition
- Gustafabrikens historia – Pictures and stories along a path in the quarry about the limestone, the Gusta factories and the district’s development from farming village to urban settlement.
- Founded
- 2002
- Operated by
- Brunflo hembygdsförening
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Getting there & parking
By car
Parking available · 150 m to the entrance
A few parking spaces at the stone museum. From the car park, follow the red-painted posts about 150 metres along the path to the exhibition.
Gusta quarry is in Vamsta near Brunflo.
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| Good to know | There are a few parking spaces at the stone museum. Follow the red-painted post markers about 150 metres along the path to the exhibition. |
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