Gardens
Vallby Open Air Museum´s plants are a part of the museum´s effort to preserve Sweden´s biological heritage - a kind of live exhibit that includes endagered plants species, such as older grain types, rare decorative plants and certain fruit tree species. Learn more about the gardens by clicking on the images.
Collections of live plants
The Museum works with plant preservation, a kind of live exhibit that includes endagered plants species.
The Burgher Garden
Burgher families planted flower gardens in the style of the day at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
The Kitchen garden
Crops that farmers in the province of Västmanland might have cultivated are grown in the Farmstead’s kitchen garden.
The Lime Allée
An allée of Hesselbyholm lime (linden) trees leads to the Manor House.
The Manor Grounds
The manor grounds show two examples of an ideal garden, French garden style and English landscape garden.
The Town Square
A carpet bedding display occupies the middle of the Square. This type of bedding was common in parks established in the mid-1800s.
The Vicarage Garden
The Museum has created an herb garden and a tree nursery based on information from Vicar Muncktell's journal.
Västerås Gherkin
Cucumber cultivation was so widespread in Västerås that the city’s name became associated with gherkins.
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