Zorngården

About the museum

The history of Zorngården begins in 1886, when the 26-year-old Anders Zorn bought a plot beside Mora church and moved there a small log cabin from his maternal grandfather's farm in the village of Yvraden. Over the following decades the cabin was extended and altered in stages, particularly after the Zorn couple moved home from Paris in 1896 and settled permanently in Mora. The artist designed it himself. Around 1910 the house was completed in the form it has today.

The home was shaped by local building tradition and English Arts and Crafts, and became a place of rich social life, where guests included Prince Eugen, Carl and Karin Larsson, Albert Engström and Erik Axel Karlfeldt. In the unusually furnished rooms, art and arts and crafts from various places are mixed with kurbits and Dalarna traditions: woven tapestries, antique marble sculptures, paintings by older masters and furniture that Zorn designed himself. Especially well known is the Stora rummet (Great Room) on the upper floor, with a ceiling height of nine metres, and the garden with some of Zorn's own sculptures among rose hedges, peonies, kitchen plants and fruit trees.

When Emma Zorn died in 1942, Zorngården passed to the state as part of the couple's donation. The farm was opened to the public the same year. Today it is part of the Zornsamlingarna (Zorn Collections) and is visited on guided tours.

Highlights

• The Stora rummet with a ceiling height of nine metres
• Furniture and house designed by Anders Zorn himself
• Woven tapestries, antique marble sculptures and paintings by older masters
• The garden with Zorn's own sculptures
• Home of Anders and Emma Zorn from 1886

Permanent exhibition

• Guidad visning av Zorngården – Display of the Zorns' home with art, arts and crafts and self-designed furniture, together with the Stora rummet and the garden.

Founded

1942

Operated by

Zornsamlingarna

Admission & discounts

Zorngården is a cashless visitor attraction. The ticket to Zorngården covers the guided tours and is separate from admission to Zornmuseet. Larger groups, art associations and companies can book private tours of Zornmuseet and/or Zorngården.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: not available
• Elevator: not available
• Accessible restroom: not available
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The historic building has steep stairs, narrow doorways and high thresholds, which do not allow pushchairs, wheelchairs or rollators. There is no lift and no toilet in Zorngården. Only guide dogs may come in. The garden consists mostly of lawn and paths of gravel or stone slabs.

Kids & families

• Stroller-friendly: not available

Children and young people under 18 pay SEK 75. Pushchairs do not work in the house because of thresholds, stairs and narrow spaces.

Getting there & parking

Zorngården lies about 100 metres from Zornmuseet, at Vasagatan 36 in Mora.

Amenities & dining

• Coat check
• Lockers

Cloakroom and lockable storage lockers are in the entrance. Large handbags, rucksacks, umbrellas and ice grips may not be taken in. Café Zorn and the museum shop are at Zornmuseet, about 100 metres away.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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