Axmar bruk, Working life museum in Gävle Municipality, Sweden.

Axmar Bruk is a working life museum situated where forest meets sea, displaying preserved production buildings and machinery from Sweden's ironworking tradition. The structures and equipment offer insight into how people processed metal across generations at this location.

This place began as an ironworks facility and shaped the landscape with buildings from an era of intense metal production. Later the complex was converted into a museum to preserve this chapter of Swedish industrial history.

The name Axmar bruk comes from the ironworks founded on the site. The non-profit association Hyttan now owns and cares for the works and the cultural reserve together with the County Administrative Board of Gävleborg. In July there is a summer café in the Gula huset, and in the old warehouse Bläckhornet by the sea art and handicrafts are shown.

The site is owned by the non-profit association Hyttan and managed together with the County Administrative Board of Gävleborg. Parts of Axmar bruk have been a cultural reserve since 2011. The grounds are outdoors, with the preserved furnace, the park with its ponds and canals, and the harbour area spread out, so walking shoes and weather-appropriate clothing help.

Axmar slott, a stone mansion built in 1860, stood in the English park alongside an older wooden manor until about 1954. The castle was put up for sale for one krona and demolished in 1970, so for nearly a century the park held both a manor and a castle.