Hantverks- och sjöfartsmuseum
Local history museum at Norra Berget in Sundsvall with the stuffed skvader, and exhibitions on seafaring, shipyard industry, crafts, Sámi and hunting weapons.
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About the museum
The museum is run by Medelpads Fornminnesförening (Medelpad Antiquities Association), which was founded in 1906 to create an equivalent of Skansen for Medelpad. The association started the open-air museum Fornhemmet on Norra Stadsberget and handed over the running of the open-air museum to Sundsvall Municipality in 2001. The museum building was erected in 1942–1944 and lies within the open-air museum Norra Berget.
The museum shows exhibitions on Sundsvall's shipyard industry and seafaring, on crafts such as musical instrument making, bell-founding, copper-smithing and clock-making, on the Sámi of Medelpad, and on hunting weapons from different periods. There are also paintings of ships that had Sundsvall as their home port and often visited the harbour.
The museum's best-known object is the stuffed skvader, a mythical creature that is a mixture of hare and capercaillie. In the Skvaderboden (Skvader Shop) a shop interior from a general store (diversehandel) on Västermalm in Sundsvall, from the 1920s, has been installed.
Highlights
- The stuffed skvader, a mythical hare-and-capercaillie creature
- Exhibition on Sundsvall's shipyard industry and seafaring
- Crafts such as clock-making and bell-founding
- Sámi objects from Medelpad
- The Skvaderboden with a shop interior from the 1920s
Permanent exhibition
- Hantverks- och sjöfartsmuseet – Exhibitions on shipyard industry, seafaring, crafts, the Sámi of Medelpad and hunting weapons, as well as the stuffed skvader.
- Operated by
- Medelpads Fornminnesförening
Admission & discounts
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible: no information
- Elevator: no information
- Accessible restroom: no information
- Accessible parking
- Service dogs welcome: no information
- Tactile models & exhibits: no information
- Sign language tours: no information
- Easy-to-read materials: no information
- Audio description: no information
Signposted disabled parking spaces are available at the Hantverks- och sjöfartsmuseet.
Kids & families
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Getting there & parking
By car
Free parking
A few visitor parking spaces are outside the Vinfabriken and the Hantverks- och sjöfartsmuseet; parking is free where a P sign is displayed.
- Accessible parking
The museum is in building 28 within the open-air museum Norra Berget in Sundsvall.
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