Wadköping, Open-air museum in Örebro, Sweden.
Wadköping is an open-air museum in Örebro that displays buildings from different periods of Swedish history. The structures are arranged along a central street and were originally relocated from various parts of the city.
The museum was founded in 1965 to preserve buildings that would otherwise have been lost. A major fire in 1854 destroyed the city center, and some of the structures displayed here survived that disaster.
Craft workshops and demonstrations throughout the site show how people worked with their hands in earlier times. You can watch traditional skills being practiced in the buildings themselves.
The site is easy to explore on foot and the buildings are accessible both inside and out. You can wander at your own pace and visit the various rooms and workshops.
A mobile application guides you through the site with stories about people who lived here long ago. These personal accounts bring the buildings to life and connect you with their former residents.
Location: Örebro Municipality
Shares border with: Stadsparken
GPS coordinates: 59.27270,15.23176
Latest update: December 6, 2025 17:41
Sweden stretches from southern sand beaches to forests and tundra in the north. The country preserves records from several millennia: prehistoric rock carvings, Viking burial sites, medieval fortresses, and 18th century ironworks. The coastline includes limestone cliffs, archipelago islands, and wooden piers at small fishing villages. This collection takes you to historical places like Gammelstad Church Town, where hundreds of red wooden huts surround a medieval pilgrimage center, or the Stone Ship Monument at Kåseberga, where raised stones form the outline of a Viking ship. It also includes national parks such as Skuleskogen with its spruce forests and steep coasts, ironworks like Engelsberg where charcoal blast furnaces still stand, and museums like the Hallwyl collection in Stockholm. Visitors find island fortresses, peatlands, long-distance trails through arctic regions, and villages that show Swedish life from earlier centuries.
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