About Kulturen
The association and our museums
Kulturen is a regional museum and is also classified as a county museum. Our formal name is Kulturhistoriska föreningen för södra Sverige (the Cultural History Association for Southern Sweden), and we are a nonprofit association founded in 1882 with over 6,500 members today. We operate museums in Lund and in Sjöbo Municipality. The main portion of the public activities is carried out at the museum and open-air museum Kulturen in Lund, which was inaugurated in 1892.
About us
The Cultural Historical Association for Southern Sweden is a non-profit organization that manages the visitor destinations Kulturen in Lund, the Museum of Life, The Grocer's shop, the Tegnér Museum, and Kulturen's Östarp in Sjöbo municipality.
The main activities are carried out at Kulturen in Lund, which is a cultural history museum with historical houses from different times, numerous exhibitions, and program activities for different ages. The museum opened in 1892. We have large museum collections, and our archaeologists and building antiquarians work both on commission and with the museum's activities.
The statutes of Kulturen form the basis of the activities. The vision tells us what we stand for and what we want to achieve in the future. Kulturen's goals and the direction of the activities follow ethical rules for museums, laws for the work of museums, and work with the cultural environment. They are also adapted to cultural policy goals at the national, regional, and municipal levels.
The activities are funded by entrance fees, sales, program activities, gifts and foundation funds, contributions, as well as through municipal and regional grants. Kulturen is a politically and religiously independent activity.
The history of the association
In 1882, Georg Karlin, together with some assistants, founded a collection, which was taken over by the Cultural History Association for Southern Sweden. The association had been founded the same year by the Historical and Archaeological Associations of the Scania Landscapes and the Lund Dialect Associations. In 1890, the association purchased its first property, and in 1892 the museum opened in Lund.
