Christmas in houses and farmsteads

The Printer’s Home: 1840s
The young couple that runs the printing press celebrates Boxing day with a dinner for friends and with the Christmas tree right in the middle of the table.

Delsbo farmstead: 1850s
Here you will find a Christmas table set for dinner with beautiful candles and the best food one could think of.

The Oktorp farmstead: 1870s
It’s Christmas eve on the farm in the south of Sweden. The family is about to sit down at the Christmas table (closed Christmas eve).

The Post office: 1910s
The coffee table is set and the tree is dressed. In the warm religious home, Christmas is a more quietly festive one.

The Farm Labourer’s Cottage: 1920s
Christmas in the home of the farm labourer’s is simple but solemn. The pig has been slaughtered and there’s pork and the traditional bacalao with bechamel sauce for dinner.

The Ironmonger’s apartment: 1930s
The family is cleaning and decorating their modern apartment, waiting for Christmas.
Christmas baking Dec 1–7 and 15–21

The Ironware store: 1930s
Buy the latest in fashion this Christmas in the 1930’s – Christmas tree decorations, angel candlesticks and butter pigs.