Ekomuseum Bergslagen – från idé till verklighet

The Bergslagen ecomuseum – from idea to reality The paper states that Ekomuseum Bergslagen is not a proper ecomuseum in the original French sense of the word. Initially the project was influenced by the French concept and adopted the term - but in many respects it has grown logically out of a set of existing structures and ways of coping with cultural changes. The author points to the initiatives taken in the 1920s by the author, local heritage enthusiast and popular educator Karl-Erik Forsslund (1872- 1941), who lived in the region and created the famous folk high school at Brunnsvik and later, in 1938, founded at Ludvika, the first open-air museum of industrial history in the world.