Melleruds museum och släktforskningsarkiv

About the museum

Melleruds museum opened on 11 May 1985 after a year’s work by members of the newly formed Mellerud–Holm–Järn local heritage society. The museum is on the second and third floors of the old courthouse, which was built in brick in 1909 and was used as a courthouse until 1996. As early as the 1920s, folk collections were kept in the attic of the courthouse, but they only came into their own in the museum’s room settings. The municipality owns the building and uses the ground floor for meetings and conferences.

The museum shows settings from different periods: a backstuga (small cottage) where the poor lived, a workers’ dwelling from the 1920s and 1930s, a farmer’s kitchen and a parlour in a higher-class setting. On Hantverksgatan (Craft Street) there are the smithy, the tailor and the shoemaker, and in the outbuilding (logen) there is a threshing machine with flails. There is also a model of the medieval castle Dalaborg, a village shop, a photographer’s studio, a telephone exchange and a schoolroom. On the third floor there is an extensive genealogy archive with church registers, maps and a reference library of parish books and family books from all over Dalsland. There, visitors can search death registers, population registers and other registers on computer.

Highlights

• Living settings from a small cottage to a parlour
• Hantverksgatan with smithy, tailor and shoemaker
• Model of the medieval castle Dalaborg
• Village shop, photographer’s studio, telephone exchange and schoolroom
• Genealogy archive for all of Dalsland

Permanent exhibitions

• Boendemiljöer och Hantverksgatan – Room settings from a small cottage to a parlour, Hantverksgatan with old trades, a village shop, a schoolroom and a model of Dalaborg.
• Släktforskningsarkivet – Archive with church registers, maps and a reference library for genealogy in Dalsland.

Founded

1985

Operated by

Mellerud–Holm–Järns hembygdsförening

Admission & discounts

Adults and children from age 12: SEK 40; children under 12 enter free. Payment by Swish or cash; card payment cannot be accepted.

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Getting there & parking

The museum is centrally located in Mellerud on the west side of the E45, in the old courthouse.

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