Great variety of museums

Where shall we go?

With 20 museums covering a broad spectrum of interests we are sure that there is something for everybody – whether it’s history or modern exhibitions.

Here is a short description about most of the museums in and around Ystad.

Museums with separate web sites:
Ystads Konstmuseum (the Art Museum) and Klostermuseet (the Monastery Museum).

Charlotte Berlin’s museum

Charlotte Berlin was the daughter of a county administ-rative court judge. When she died in 1916, she left her house, home and furnishings to the town of Ystad. This well-appointed, late 19th century interior remains as it was on her death.

Charlotte Berlin also donated a large sum of money to start a foundation to preserve the house and contents she had inherited from her father.

Hembygdsmuseet in Stora Herrestad

This local arts & crafts museum in Stora Herrestad is housed in the old court house. Visitors can see wedding, everyday and Sunday best clothes as well as the interior of an early 19th century peasant home.

Örumshuset

Örumshuset is a simple 18th century home, the interior of which is original. The home clearly sheds light on the way peasants lived two hundred years ago.

Dag Hammarskjöld’s Backåkra

A typical Scanian farmhouse with a 360⁰-panoramic view with the sea in the background, which UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld restored with the purpose of using it as a residence when he had retired from his commission with the UN. The airplane-crash in Africa, 1961, in which he died changed history, and today Backåkra has been turned into a museum dedicated to his memory.

You can read more about Dag Hammarskjöld’s Backåkra, here.

Sandhammarens Livsräddningsstation

Sweden’s first lifeboat station. Here you can see how lives were saved at sea in the 19th century. At the same spot is Sandhammarens Fyr a steel lighthouse from 1862 and Sweden’s oldest lifeboat.

Sjöräddningsmuseet i Kåseberga hamn

A permanent exhibition in pictures and words at the Sjöräddningssällskapet’s (Sea Rescue society) museum describes the importance of the work and deds of the lifeboat society. Visitors are welcome onboard the rescue boat N A Båth – she was once stationed here.

Keramikmuseet (pottery museum)

At Krukmakeriet in Ystad you can see items that have been made on this site for many decades. It is here that the symbol of Ystad, the night watchman figure, is made.

Hantverksmuseet

The museum is a clear reminder of an ancient past and a tribute to the skills of local craftsmen. Unusual and interesting items include an apprentice coppersmiths’ moneybox from 1711, a wooden 19th century bicycle and numerous tools and other items linked to past trades.

Stickmaskinmuseet

You can learn all there is to know about the development of knitting machines by visiting Kerstin Rosengren’s unique knitting machine museum in Glemminge.

Krageholms mölla

A mill society manages the mill at Krageholm. The mill, a Dutch mill from 1864, was given to the association by Count Fritz Piper of Krageholm Manor.

Vagnmuseet Eriksborg

This carriage and wagon museum is not far from Krage-holm in Skårby. The museum, which is run by the Ras-musson family, has over 40 carriages dating from the mid 19th century until the early 20th century; the oldest is a simple carriage from the 1850s. The collec-tion includes carriages from Skåne, a charabanc and various Victoria coaches.

Stora Köpinge Brand- and Bymuseum

The museum, which is housed in the old fire station at Köpingebro, looks after 19th century equipment that was left when the fire station closed in 1970. The collection includes a horse drawn wagon that was made by local craftsmen.

Ystads Frivillige Bergnings-Corps

The Ystad volunteer fire brigade was first formed in 1839 to fight fires. The volunteers, as the group is called, are still very active, although not always fighting fires.

They have their own museum and organise guided tours of the town and Wallander tours on one of the veteran fire engines.

Militärmuseet

Housed in the old garrison, the museum describes the 200-year history of the Ystad garrison until its closure in 1997. Here you can see life under the Danes as well as memorabilia from the cavalry, infantry, armoured corps and anti-aircraft defences. A magnificent 50m2 painting, ‘the Skåne dragoons’ by Oscar Matthiesen 1906 is well worth seeing.

Cineteket

The film museum/experience-centre is located in the former garrison-area, and is adjacent to Ystad Studios. Here you can see how films are made and have-a-go at filming as well as buy films and souvenirs in the gift shop in the café.

Oscar Wilde collection

The town library book-collection is well worth a visit. Many of the rare books by such famous authors as Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, T E Lawrence and Vaslav Nijinsky were donated by a son of Ystad, John Andrén, in the 1960s.

Art on public display

Fine works of art can be seen in public places all over Ystad. Oscar Antonsson’s Bäckahästen can be seen in Stortorget. Other works by this artist include Tympanon in Mariakyrka, and Gåsalisa, which is in the gardens at Pilgrändshuset. On the pedestrian street is Fölet by Åke Jönsson. The same artist also made De sköna konsternas vagn that adorns the façade of the city art gallery. In front of the theatre is Pas de deux by Birgitta Stenberg-Hultén.

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