Leksands Hembygdsgårdar

Open-air museum of old timber buildings beside the church.

Leksands Hembygdsgårdar is an open-air museum of timber buildings gathered beside the church. It is the kind of small local museum that makes sense here, because the architecture outside the museum walls is part of the same Dalarna story.

Read the signs, look at the joinery and paint, then walk back toward the modern town. The contrast is modest, but it helps explain why Leksand sees itself as a keeper of rural Swedish tradition.

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