Värmlands Museum, Karlstad

Värmlands Museum is the county museum for the county of Värmland. The museum is located at Sandgrundsudden in central Karlstad, but also conducts visitor activities during the summer at three other destinations in the county; von Echstedtska farm in Kila outside Säffle, Torsby Finnskogscentrum in Lekvattnet in Torsby municipality and in Långban mining and cultural village in Långban north of Filipstad. Värmlands Museum has over 200,000 visitors a year. Every year, it presents 15-20 exhibitions of cultural history, art and photography of high international quality. Since 2009, Åsa Hallén has been the county curator and director of the county museum.

Värmlands Museum is run by the Värmlands Museum Foundation.

1839 - The priest Anders Lignell donates a collection of ancient artefacts to what later became the Värmland Museum Association, one of the founders of the foundation.

1929 - The older museum building on Sandgrundsudden in Karlstad, designed by the architect Cyrillus Johansson, is opened.

1980 - The Värmlands Museum Foundation is established by the then County Council of Värmland, Karlstad Municipality and the Värmlands Museum Association.

1998 - The extension to the museum at Sandgrundsudden, designed by Carl Nyrén, is inaugurated. It provides the museum with modern facilities such as an auditorium, museum shop, café and later a restaurant.

2018 - the museum's new library opens with interior design by interior architect and furniture designer Åke Axelsson, lighting by Jonas Bohlin and artistic decoration by Ingalena Klenell.

2019 - The renovation of the museum, designed by architect Ulla Antonsson of White in Gothenburg, is completed and inaugurated on 1 June 2019. The reason for the renovation was the high level of wear and tear due to the high number of visitors over many years, combined with stricter requirements regarding accessibility, security and the ability to control the climate in the exhibition halls when borrowing objects and art.