Husqvarna museum

Join us on a nostalgic journey you'll never forget! At Husqvarna museum you can relive old memories and see what Husqvarna AB has produced over the years. You'll find guns, sewing machines, cookers, bicycles, motorbikes, chainsaws, lawnmowers and all kinds of household products.

Did you know, for example, that more than 12 million units of Husqvarna’s meat mincers have been sold worldwide? Today, Husqvarna AB is the world's largest manufacturer of outdoor products. The museum entrance has both a shop and a café, where you can have a coffee and enjoy the beautiful surroundings with Huskvarna’s waterfall right next door.

The museum has a total of 2400 square metres spread over two floors and contains lots of things to experience. As a group, you can book guided tours of the museum outside of the summer period. The museum has an entrance fee, and you can visit the website to find current prices and opening hours.

The name Husqvarna comes from the mill (kvarn) by the waterfall that belonged to the Rumlaborg fortress. Husqvarna Museum opened in 1993 and its larger premises were inaugurated in 2005. The museum is run by the Huskvarna Local Heritage Association with support from Husqvarna AB. When you enter the museum today, you will find yourself in what used to be the weapons workshop up until the 1940s.

The world's most versatile industrial company

At Husqvarna Museum, you will see many of the products that have been made by one of the world's oldest and most versatile industrial companies. It all started in 1689 with muskets and other weapons made for the Swedish armed forces. When weapons were no longer in as much demand, the factory started making sewing machines instead in 1872. Two years later, a foundry was opened, making spittoons and coffin legs, among other things. Business was poor and when orders for weapons from the Swedish Armed Forces came to an end in 1876, Husqvarna needed a new direction.

Business flourishes with Wilhelm Tham

Wilhelm Tham was the director who, in 1877, turned the company into a modern large-scale industry. Under his leadership, new products began to be manufactured: hunting weapons, stoves, cookers, bicycles, mopeds, household products and, not least, motorcycles. Husqvarna became world-famous thanks to its motorcycles. Thirteen international motocross world champions claimed victory on ‘Qvarnorna’, a bike from the Husqvarna factory. From 1986, the production of Husqvarna motorcycles moved to Cagiva in Italy.

Business flourished and the factory's patron Wilhelm Tham paid for a local school, church and housing, which bound the workers to the company and the factory town of Huskvarna. In addition, many people moved from the countryside to start a life in the city. Husqvarna became the obvious product supplier for the various aspects of everyday life. When Wilhelm Tham died in 1911, he had doubled the company's turnover 35 times over and had been instrumental in turning the mill area into a town.

Husqvarna today

In 1977, Electrolux bought up Husqvarna. Husqvarna then became a pure forestry and horticulture company. In 2006, Electrolux split off from Husqvarna, which then became its own company again. Today, the company is the world's largest manufacturer of outdoor machinery, such as chainsaws, trimmers, robotic lawnmowers and garden tractors.

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