Historical gems
Museums & Collections
Around our pearls you can experience the Åström family's unique museums and collections. At Dufweholm Manor you can see Sweden's largest collection of corkscrews, our folk museum and the unique champagne cellar with wreck champagne from the ship Jönköping. Visit our 100-year-old country store and discover history in an inspiring and historic environment.
100 years old
Allmogemuseum at Herrgården
The cultural-historical collections are constantly growing and can be experienced at all our estates. Today, the Åström family has one of Sweden's largest collections of Swedish product advertising. Parts of the collection can be seen in the 100-year-old general store and in the museum at Dufweholm Manor. In the museum you will also find a printing house, hairdressing salon, pharmacy, shoemaker's shop and a family home on display. In the country store you can buy jams, juices, caramels and the classic candy cone to take home.
Sweden's largest
Corkscrew assembly
At Dufweholm Manor there is an incredible collection of corkscrews to look at. With about 3000 different corkscrews, we would say that it is the country's largest collection. Large and small, inventive and those that are mostly there to be looked at. There are also many good opportunities to use them!
A book of importance
Heavy brands
The Åström family is the owner of Sweden's largest collection of product advertising signs. The signs are mainly on display at Dufweholm Manor and Pelles Lusthus, but also in the book written by Peter Pluntky - Tunga Varumärken. The book is described as exclusive and unique, and not just in terms of its appearance, which is remarkable in itself, as it has a sheet metal cover and weighs a full 3 kg. The content of the book is no less important, in addition to a huge register of Swedish sign history, there are lots of interesting facts about manufacturers, typography and images. Fredrik Åström has contributed his information and knowledge to the author.
For more information and to order the book, please visit www.pluntky.se.
Old signs
The digital signage archive
Gamlaskyltar.se is a digital archive where Swedish product advertising with, among other things, enamel signs and copper signs from the 1890s are collected. The project Gamla Skyltar is run by Fredrik Åström. The archive is updated regularly but already contains thousands of signs. If you want to see the signs in real life, most of the collection is available at our gems around Sörmland. On gamlaskyltar.se you can also sell signs you have at home or help document this treasure in early advertising history. To old signs
The manor
Unique champagne cellars
Dufweholms Herrgård has a unique champagne cellar where more than 100-year-old champagne rests in large aquariums. The champagne comes from the ship Jönköping, which was sunk off the Finnish coast in 1916 when she was on her way to Russia with wine, brandy and champagne. For more than 80 years the ship lay at the bottom of the sea, until treasure hunter Claes Bergwall and his team recovered some 2000 bottles of champagne from the wreck.
Because the bottles rested at the bottom of the sea for so long, they now need to be preserved in the same way. Therefore, we at Dufweholms Herrgård have rebuilt our wine cellar to both serve and display some of these unique bottles. Instead of walls in the wine cellar, there are now aquariums where the champagne can rest in water, just as it has done since 1916.
