Sockenstugan

About the museum

Sockenstugan (the Parish Cottage) lies by the church in Urshult in Tingsryd Municipality. The house is used by Hembygdsföreningen Gamla Urshult (Gamla Urshult Local Heritage Society), which has over 200 members and has published the Urshults krönika (Urshult Chronicle) every year since 1940. The association runs an association library in the house and also has a parish museum there.

The library opened in its present form on 28 December 2016, in the same house where Urshult's first library started 154 years earlier. Since March 2025 the association library has been open on Sundays.

In the parish museum, objects and environments from the history of the district are shown, including an old trading store and a school. The association's other destination is the homestead Lunnabacken in a nature reserve with a view over Lake Åsnen, where most of the summer activities take place.

Highlights

• Parish museum in the house opposite Urshult church
• Old trading store and school environment
• Association library in the same house
• Urshults krönika, published every year since 1940

Permanent exhibition

• Sockenmuseet – Local history museum in the Sockenstugan with, among other things, an old trading store and a school environment.

Operated by

Hembygdsföreningen Gamla Urshult

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Getting there & parking

The Sockenstugan lies opposite Urshult church.

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