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History museums in Kronoberg

History museums in Kronoberg: the 19 we have written up, ranked. Lilla Björka, IKEA Museum and Kosta Glassworks top the list. Two are free to visit. Updated November 2026.

History museums in Kronoberg

Lilla Björka, KronobergNumber 1
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Lilla Björka

Visit to connect Wägner’s former home with her work for peace, women's rights and the environment.

IKEA Museum, KronobergNumber 2
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IKEA Museum

Go to trace how IKEA's products and business ideas developed from its beginnings in Älmhult.

Älmhult

Kosta Glassworks, KronobergNumber 3
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Kosta Glassworks

Go to explore glass design through KostaBoda’s named collections and pieces, including work by Bertil Vallien and Matti Klenell.

IKEA Museum, KronobergNumber 4
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IKEA Museum

Go to follow how IKEA’s products and ideas developed, from furniture sales to the hot dog as a low-price model.

The Swedish Glass Museum, KronobergNumber 5
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The Swedish Glass Museum

Go to see Swedish glass history alongside contemporary studio glass and current exhibitions.

Växjö

Number 6
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Funeral Museum in Ljungby

See how customs around death and funerals were practised in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ljungby

Bergdala glastekniska museum, KronobergNumber 7
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Bergdala glastekniska museum

See and handle glassworking machines, including a semi-automatic bottle-blowing machine and four etching machines.

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Unnaryds Bonadsmuseum, KronobergNumber 8
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Unnaryds Bonadsmuseum

See the world’s largest collection of southern Swedish bonad paintings.

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Number 9
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Miniworld

Go to drive a model train yourself among miniature versions of Småland and its railway past.

LJUNGBY

Number 10
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Bus and Technology Museum

Go to see veteran buses alongside a broad collection of vehicles, machinery and recreated 1950s settings.

Annerstad

Number 11
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Museum of Hunting and Humanity

Go to see how the story of Sweden’s history and the changing organisation of hunting are presented together.

Lagan

Number 12
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Sagomuseet i Ljungby

To hear Småland's oral storytelling tradition and find the marked places connected with its tales.

Ljungby

Number 13
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Totalförsvarsmuseum i Delary

The museum brings together exhibits on military history and a Cold War-era defence supply depot in southern Sweden.

Älmhultkr

Number 14
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Cliff Burton Museum

To see exhibits about Burton’s career and visit the fan memorial stone in Dörarp.

Lagan

Number 15
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Kulturparken Småland

Go to explore Småland’s glassmaking history and its collections, including a digital museum with more than 100,000 objects.

Möbeldesignmuseum, KronobergNumber 17
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Möbeldesignmuseum

Go to explore a planned collection connecting furniture design’s history with contemporary work and future designers.

Number 18
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Huseby statarmuseum

See how the Pettersson family’s seven members shared two rooms and a small kitchen in a 1930s agricultural workers’ home.

Ohs bruk Museum, KronobergNumber 19
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Ohsabanan

Ride an early-20th-century steam train through Småland woodland.

How this list is made

Ranked by the Herald score: recognition (guides, heritage, visitor numbers, the tourism boards), interest from abroad (English Wikipedia), what Sweden Herald readers rate and read, how recently the facts were checked, and the editors. Nothing a place pays changes its place in the list.

We do not have enough reader ratings for these places yet, so for now the order rests on the outside signs and on how much the world looks for each place. Ratings will count once readers have given them.

Updated 7 November 2026

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