Welcome to Vadstena Town Museum!

The aim of the exhibition in Vadstena Town Museum is to show everyday life in Vadstena within the whole context and ordinary people’s history. Major institutions such as the abbey, the castle and the mental hospital have got their own museums in Town. The museum is run by Vadstena museum association with roots in the 1920´s. In 1949 we were then offered the current museum building that consists of two parts: the older half is probably built in the 15th century, but no later than the beginning of the 16th century.

Its original function is unclear. The plot and the stone house were sold in the 1550s by Arvid Guldsmed’s (Goldsmith) heirs. It was owned somewhat later by the councilor Sven Knutsson Tailor, ancestor of the noble family Ödla (that means Lizard). The younger half, consisting of one room, was built in the first half of the 19th century. The building has among other things housed a bank before the Museum association took over the premises. The plot has one of the most prominent locations in the medieval Vadstena: near the town hall, at the city’s only square.

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