Stora Mellby mekaniska museum

About the museum

The workshop in Stora Mellby was founded by the village's mechanic Karl Aron Larsson (1886–1951) and was run between 1916 and 1994. At first, various repair jobs were carried out and threshing machines were built, but from the 1920s increasingly agricultural implements, hot-bulb engines and vices. Towards the end, sheet-metal working tools and tools for bending reinforcing bars were made. Drawings and casting moulds based on the founder's own patents have largely been preserved.

Bjärke hembygdsförening (local heritage society) took over the workshop in 1994 and has since developed it into a living industrial heritage museum. The workshop was built around 1916 and has retained a working machinery park from the 1920s, where a single motor drives most of the machines via belts and shafts in the ceiling. The exhibition building was built in 1901–1902 as a storehouse for reloading goods onto the railway and is today used as an exhibition space. In 2011 a machine hall was added for renovated objects connected with the area.

The association's ambition is to preserve the working workshop environment, show it through guided viewings and document the area's industrial development.

Highlights

• Working workshop from the 1920s driven by a single motor
• Lathes, drilling machines, saws, milling machine and shaping machine (kipphyvel) from the early 1900s
• Forge hearth (ässja) for hardening and forging
• Hot-bulb engines, stationary engines and veteran tractors
• Preserved drawings and casting moulds of the founder

Permanent exhibitions

• Mekaniska verkstaden – Working workshop from the 1920s with belt-driven machines and a smithy.
• Maskinhallen och utställningshuset – Restored engines, tractors and objects from the area, as well as reconstructed craft and shop settings.

Founded

1994

Operated by

Bjärke hembygdsförening

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking: no information
• 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

According to NAV, the museum is adapted for wheelchairs and has a wheelchair-accessible toilet next to the visitor site.

Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The workshop is located in the village of Stora Mellby between Sollebrunn and Nossebro on road 190. Parking is available next to the museum.

Amenities & dining

Coffee and cake (fika) can be bought at open houses.

Events & venue rental

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