Autumn holiday activities

Where: The open-air museum Hägnan and Visitor Center.
When: Tuesday-Thursday, october 29-31.
Hägnan 12:00 pm-3:00 pm.
Visitor Center 12:00 pm-4:00 pm.

Welcome to spend the autumn break with us in Gammelstad!
Here you can read more about what we have to offer.

The open-air museum Hägnan

During the autumn holiday week at Hägnan, we'll immigrate to America! Come and join our exciting history adventure, where you get to follow Emma from Torneådalen, who is in the process of deciding whether she should travel or not.

• The History Adventure in the Round barn at 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm. An interactive drama where the children get to travel back in time to the year 1903 and help the maid Emma who is facing a dilemma, shall she immigrate to America or not? Will she really be able to leave her family and start a new life on the other side of the ocean? Emma's grandmother knows how bad it can turn out, which she gladly tells. The children get to help Emma with her decision by performing small tasks to find out what it takes to travel, while they form their own opinion. The History Adventure is in Swedish only.
• Crafts in Gårdshuset 12:00 pm-3:00 pm. Here you can decorate/draw/write postcards to or from someone (a fictional or a real person) that has immigrated to America.
• Flea market in the Long barn 12:00 pm-3:00 pm. Bargain-hunt in the Long barn behind Kafé Fägnan.
• The Country store 12:00 pm-3:00 pm. Here you will find sweets and handicraft products in our cosy store with influences from the 1940s.
• Kafé Fägnan 12:00 pm-3:00 pm. Here you can stop for a coffee and something sweet in a cosy setting.

Visitor Center

The autumn holiday week at Visitor Center in Gammelstad's Church Town will be a spooky one! Come and try ghost-themed crafts in the exhibition, listen to ghost stories, meet our mascot Musilda the mouse and create your own lanterns to the closing lantern ceremony on Thursday.

• Ghost-themed crafts in the exhibition 12:00 pm-4:00 pm. Besides ghost-themed crafts you can also make lanterns of an old glass jars. The holiday week ends on Thursday afternoon with a lantern ceremony on the church square, where the lanterns will be lit. After the ceremony you can fetch your lantern at the Visitor Center, if you want to bring it home.
• Grandmother Musilda visits the exhibition 1:15 pm-1:45 pm. Our own mascot, Musilda the mouse visits the exhibition and play with the kids. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
• Story time with child friendly ghost stories, Thursday 3:00 pm-3:30 pm. Warning, it can get a bit spooky, so we recommend that you bring an adult for a hand to hold.
• Lantern ceremony on the church square, Thursday at 3:30 pm. We light the lanterns that have been made during the week.

With reservation for changes.