Mannaminne — Attraction in Kramfors kommun

My favorite "museum". It is artistic, humoristic, with curious objects collected from different epochs, with an overall philosophical twist on the concept of time, degradation and innovation. It's not for everybody but it surely made me ponder, gaze and laugh as I went through the various exhibits.

I should add that understanding the name will help you understand the museum. Mannaminne literally means human memory, or better explained ancestral memory, or memories of human history. The various objects and buildings are like a collection of human relics across time, with some exhibits explicitly about the degradation of memory, such as a heavily decayed boat with plants growing through it, called "tidens tand" - time's tooth - decay of time. The place is tongue in cheek yet very ambitious. At one point the creator even wanted to build a 4 km railway with donated...

Quirky roadside attraction. The museum is kind of a higher budget, lower rent McMenamins, if you've been to the Pacific Northwest in the USA. By that I mean that there are some things that must have cost a bit (retired fighter jet, train cars with rail, entire foreign buildings, boats (transit cost alone), but the end result reads less magical and more quirky and nonsensical, kind of like a candidate for "weird Sweden". Our rooms were very clean and well-finished, much better than the other rooms on the high coast trail we stayed in. The food was mediocre. Definitely visit if you're in the area and enjoy quirk, but if you're hiking the high coast trail, consider staying on it and seeking a more charming place to stay a little more off the beaten path. We felt like the detour...

This museum is so much fun to discover. we visited with our 5 year old daughter and she was quiet long interested in all the exhibitions. You can easily spend a few hours there and if you get tired there is a nice cafe with fine food and coffee. the staff was very nice, too. the entry price was 300 sk for 2 adults. the only thing I would appreciate is to explain more of what you actually see. it's not all self explaining, especially when one is not speaking swedish. some of the things could have been staged more elaborate. but i guess that would take more time and effort. i still recommend to visit this...