Ecomuseum Bergslagen

Ecomuseum Bergslagen is an open-air museum in the western a part of the previous mining and smelting place of Bergslagen in critical Sweden. The museum opened in 1986 and is these days the world's biggest ecomuseum. The museum is a joint assignment of the municipalities Ludvika, Smedjebacken, Fagersta, Norberg, Skinnskatteberg, Surahammar and Hallstahammar. Two provincial museums in Dalarna and Västmanland County take part within the project.

In 1998 Ecomuseum Bergslagen changed into presented as the pleasant commercial records museum in Europe with the Luigi Micheletti Award. Ecomuseum Bergslagen is a 750 square kilometre place accomplishing from Lake Mälaren in the south to Forest Finns forests in the north. It takes approximately three hours with the aid of car to travel from north to south and the site visitors travel on their very own via the panorama. About 60 websites describe how people have used the vicinity's herbal resources to live on over time. The history of manufacturing of iron is the theme of the museum. Bergslagen turned into once the maximum essential iron region in Sweden.