Furudals bruk, Working life museum in Rättvik Municipality, Sweden

Furudals Bruk is a site with multiple buildings displaying traditional manufacturing processes and equipment from different periods. The complex includes workshops, residences, and storage buildings that together illustrate how iron production operated as a complete industrial system.

Furudals bruk was founded in 1709 by the inventor Birger Elfwing for the manufacture of cannon. In 1752 it passed to the regimental auditor Benjamin Sandel, who expanded operations by establishing Kristinefors bruk and the Sandelsfors blast furnace. After Isac Gustaf Clason the Elder of the Walloon Clason family bought Furudal in 1776, forging was expanded, a mechanical workshop was set up and a chain smithy was added, where the Furudals anchor chain was made. The ironworks closed in 1884 and the estate was sold in 1886 to Korsnäs sawmill as forest land.

The site displays local craftsmanship traditions that visitors experience firsthand while walking through the buildings and seeing the techniques and tools used in iron production. These working methods shaped how people in the region viewed skilled manufacturing work for generations.

The former ironworks stands by the Ore River in Furudal, in Rättvik Municipality, Dalarna. The site is now a hotel and conference centre, so the buildings are best seen as a guest or during an arranged visit rather than on a fixed public tour. The old school building on the grounds was taken over in 1973 by the language teachers Inger and Lennart Öhnell, who ran language teaching there.

The chain forge at Furudal produced the so-called Furudals anchor chain, a product known well enough to carry the works' own name. It came out of the chain smithy set up after Isac Gustaf Clason the Elder bought the works in 1776, when the forge was enlarged and a mechanical workshop added.