Wadköping

Wadköping is a visitor destination and open-air museum in central Örebro . With its wooden houses and farms, Wadköping depicts Örebro’s older buildings, urban environment and inhabitants. Here you will find museums, exhibitions, a café and restaurant, a wood lathe, a shop, a bakery and many other shops and crafts. The museum is named after Hjalmar Bergman’s fictional city Wadköping . 

The buildings in Wadköping 

Stage 1 

  • Tenngjutaregården , original address: Drottninggatan 76. Activities today: “Gamla Örebro” (restaurant and café) and Wadköping’s shop.
  • Vävaregården , original address: Drottninggatan 64. Activities today: Old Örebro conference, “Walthers Massage” and “Lilla Butiken”.
  • Borgarhuset (Cajsa Warg’s house), original address: Kyrkogatan 4. Activities today: “Cajsa Warg” (exhibition).
  • Kungsstugan , original address: Järntorget. Activities today: Exhibitions: the history of Kungsstugan and the history of Wadköping’s origins (inaugurated in 2015).
  • Skomakaregården , original address: Gamla gatan 17. Activities today: “The House of Taste”, “Teatervalvet”, “Sandra Walther – Massage and wellness” and “Hantverkarboden”.
  • Handskmakaregården , original address: Drottninggatan 51 and Bondegatan 1. Activities today: “Skolmuseet” and “Dockteaterhuset”.
  • Skepparegården , original address: Kyrkogårdsgatan 26. Activities today: “Hantverkshyllan”, “Ateljé Återbruk” and “Wadköpingsrummet”.
  • Smedjan , original address: Axbergs parish. Business today: Wadköping’s smithy.
  • Lekladan . original address: outbuilding in Tiveden. Activities today: Playhouse for children with play shop and play farm with wooden animals.

Stage 2 

  • Jeremiasstugan , original address: Tybble, Almby parish. Business today: Jeremiasbageriet.
  • Hamiltonska huset , original address: Näbbtorgsgatan 16.
  • Ullavihuset , original address: Ullavi, Närkes Kil.
  • Behrn’s house , original address: Kungsgatan 9.
  • Komministergården , original address: Nygatan 39.
  • Svarvarhuset , original address: Ågatan 6. Activities today: the silver studio “ZilverZmen” and Närke’s wood lathe.
  • Smedjebackshuset , original address: Skolgatan 12.
  • Teaterladan and Kornboden , original address: Kungsgatan 23. Activities today: Theater and concert hall.
  • Övre Vallbygården , original address: Lundby. Activities today: Wadköping’s office and MR ceramics.
  • Erikagården , original address: Gamla gatan 13.
  • Sturegården , original address: Sturegatan 7.

Contact

Wadköping och Karlslund
email
wadkoping@orebro.se
address
BERTIL WALDÉNS GATA 1, 702 15 Örebro, Sweden
phone
019-21 62 20