Kalmar County Museum

We greatly enjoyed this museum. There were only three major exhibits but each told a story from Swedish history very well. I found it a relief not to feel I needed rush to see a dozen other things. Good English audio guide and enough English labels. If you have children/grandchildren they’ll be well catered for too.

An absolute surprise!nnI’d heard that the museum was quite good, but we were really impressed, especially with the level of detailed and how the storyline and artifacts were displayed in the Kronan man of war ship exhibit.nnWe also were mesmerized by the information on the Iron Age ring forts and the massacre at Sandy Borge.nnExcellent museum!!

Mostly an exhibit about a sunken war, and the recovery of 30,000 artifacts from the ship. I thought there might be more history about the city of Colmar. What was there, though, was well done.

Unfortunately, like a lot of historical sites in this part of Sweden, this museum just felt like it was lacking a lot. I thought the entrance fee was really pricey for the experience itself. There was very little history about the town and region of Kalmar, the only artefacts being based purely on a single shipwreck from the 17th century. Most of the museum felt catered towards young children, though I doubt most young children have much of an interest for this kind of history. Layout was kind of confusing and difficult to follow. It wasn’t terrible, but I would not recommend it, save your money.

Nice ehxibition on rolingforts on Oland.