Johannamuseet, Private technology museum in Sandåkra, Skurup, Sweden
Johannamuseet is a working life museum in Skurup that displays vehicles and technical equipment spanning the 20th century. The collection features motorcycles, cars, household appliances, and items from shops and farms from different periods.
Manfred Almkvist (1911–1996), who ran an automobile workshop, opened the museum in 1983 when he made his collections public. He had bought the 1914 Ford Model T Johanna in 1952 and restored it; the car gave the museum its name. The museum is also called Minnenas museum.
The collection shows how machinery and appliances fit into Swedish daily work and home life across different decades. The objects on display reflect the rhythm and habits of ordinary people from various professions.
The museum lies at Sandåkra near Skurup in Skåne and is run as a private collection open to the public. It opened in 1983, when garage owner Manfred Almkvist made his collections available. Visitors reach it by road from Skurup; the site is a museum building rather than a town-centre institution.
Among the museum's holdings is a Slaby-Beringer from 1919, described as one of Europe's oldest electric cars. The collection also keeps three positive organs, one of them one of only two surviving in Sweden from the late 19th century, and an orchestrion built by Fritz Wrede in Hanover in 1904.
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