Along a winding village lane, more than twenty timber buildings brought from across Uppland form a museum landscape imagined as a rural village before the great land reforms. Disagården opened in 1931; its farms, work buildings, gardens and soldier’s croft reveal both nineteenth-century rural life and the choices through which a museum reconstructs it.
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Disagården opened in May 1931 after five years of planning and construction led by the Disa Foundation and researcher Nils Ålenius.
More than twenty historic buildings from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries were moved from places across Uppland to form the museum village.
Upplandsmuseet took over Disagården in 1970; the museum’s interpretation of its main farm later focused on rural life around the 1860s and 1870s.
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Disagården sits beside the church and royal landscape of Gamla Uppsala, but it tells a different story. Here, a winding village lane joins timber houses, barns, storehouses, a smithy, a windmill, gardens and a soldier’s croft. The buildings were brought from settlements across Uppland. Together they invite you to imagine a rural village before nineteenth-century land reforms scattered many farmsteads.
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