Hammarbacken

About the museum

Hammarbacken is the oldest part of Ludvika, north of the Ludvika ström (stream), and belongs to Ludvika Bruk, one of Sweden’s first ironworks. The works was established around 1550 and became Sweden’s first crown ironworks (kronobruk). The site was chosen for a furnace stream with a fall of no less than 17.7 metres, and there a furnace and a forge with water-powered bar-iron hammers were built. The Crown owned the works until 1726, when Jonas Cedercreutz bought it shortly before his death.

On Bruksgatan stood the smiths’ houses of slag stone. One of the houses survives and has four flats of one room and a kitchen, where more than 30 people could live in the 19th century. According to Visit Dalarna it is today shown as a museum about a family’s life around 1900. Next to it stands a white grain store of four storeys, completed in 1805, built after the years of famine in the 1780s so that grain from good years could be stored for bad ones. Today the store is used as a cultural meeting place with events, concerts and exhibitions.

In the early 20th century the works was modernised under Carl Roth, who also drew up the building plan for today’s Ludvika town. Hammarbacken is a visitor destination within Ekomuseum Bergslagen.

Highlights

• Preserved smithy house with a museum on family life around 1900
• Grain store with four storeys from 1805
• Bruksgatan with slag-stone houses
• Ruins of Marnäs furnace from the 16th century
• View over Väsman and Ludvika manor house

Permanent exhibition

• Smedshuset på Bruksgatan – Preserved smithy house from the 19th-century works street, today a museum on how a family lived around 1900.

Operated by

Ekomuseum Bergslagen; Ludvika kommun

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

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Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

The grain store is used as a meeting place for culture, with events, concerts and exhibitions.