Tossögården

About the museum

Tossögården was built in the late 19th century as workers’ housing for the neighbouring Tossö sawmill and later the Husåsågen (Husåsa sawmill). The buildings are the only ones that remind visitors of the important sawmill period on Tossön; of the sawmill’s own buildings only foundations remain. On the farm there is a main building with four flats, an outbuilding range, an earth cellar and an outhouse.

The Tossögården association was formed in 1994 to preserve the workers’ housing. After restoration the farm was declared a listed building in 1999. Åre Municipality owns the land and buildings, and the association has the right of use of the area.

Today Tossögården is a working-life museum where old documents, photographs and working objects bring Järpen’s industrial history to life. Old garden cultivation has been recreated in terraces with plants from crofts and farms around Järpen.

Highlights

• Preserved workers’ housing from the sawmill era, listed since 1999
• Time travel with flats furnished in the style of the 1920s–30s and 1940s–50s
• Documents, photographs and working objects about Järpen’s industrial history
• Recreated terrace cultivation with old cultivated plants
• Nature trails starting at the farm

Permanent exhibition

• Arbetslivsmuseet och tidsresorna – Workers’ dwellings with documents, photographs and working objects about Järpen’s industrial history; one flat is furnished as in the 1920s–30s and one as in the 1940s–50s.

Founded

1994

Operated by

Föreningen Tossögården

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

In the time travel children and other visitors play school in the 1940s or live in a flat from the 1930s. National Day celebrations and the Christmas market are recurring traditions.

Getting there & parking

There is parking beside Tossögården, where an information board and a rotating sign show the view from Tossön, the terrace cultivation and the sawmill era. Nature trails start at the farm.

Amenities & dining

• Café

Summer café at the association’s events; barbecue area, meadow and football pitch outdoors.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent

A small meeting room with kitchen and toilet can be rented, as well as the barn, the boules court, the meadow and the football pitch; booking by e-mail or via the association’s premises manager.

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