Enköping Museum

Enköping, Sweden

The museum is housed in the old town hall from 1780 and is a cultural history museum describing the history of the municipality from the Stone Age until the present day. In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum puts on temporary exhibitions of thematic nature. Guide in English to the exhibition Gryningsland (Land of Dawn) about the area in prehistoric times.

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Framtyr (Allfader) (11 months ago)
A small but very nice museum. Here you can find objects from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Victoria Enefors (11 months ago)
A nice and sympathetic museum. A bit small, but considering that it's free entry and that it's a small city like Enköping, it's perfectly fine. Fairly large actually. It's nice to go to the museum and you really get a clear picture of what Enköping looked like in the 1800s and early 1900s. Some things were completely new to me like this thing about government workers that I had never heard of before and it was cool to see how cramped and small people in the 19th century lived. It takes between 25-40 minutes to see the museum. The museum is centrally located, in the center of Enköping in a beautiful classical two-storey building. It is free to enter. Downstairs there is a tourist information office. And a small museum shop with a very limited range of souvenirs. The museum is open until 4 pm Tuesday to Friday.
Abu Taher (2 years ago)
Nice place to know about *Sweden* History
Hjalmar (2 years ago)
A good way to start a visit to Enköping! Nice to read about Ida Spak!
Jakob Cederäng (2 years ago)
Free entry, clear advantage, wouldn't have paid for the museum if it cost money. Although there is an elevator in the 3-story museum, I do not recommend wheelchair users to come
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