Ludvika Gammelgård is the town's open-air museum: a collection of about 30 timber farm buildings, charcoal-burner's huts and a mining museum gathered on a leafy hill at the south edge of town. The mining museum is the centrepiece, with exhibits on the iron ore and silver mining that built Bergslagen, including tools, drilling rigs and reconstructed pit-head buildings.
The folkmuseum side of the complex has a smithy, a barn, a chapel and several red-painted timber cottages typical of Dalarna. It's a low-key, well-curated site that gives a clear picture of how this corner of central Sweden lived and worked for the past 500 years. Open during the summer months only.