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Aug

Wenersborgs Museums Sekelskiftedag
Vänersborg

We invite you to this year’s Turn of the Century Day!

Step back in time to the late 1800s with us! We offer a rich program along with a market, coffee service, a T-Ford display, horse and carriage rides (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM), demonstrations of various crafts, a player piano performance, photography in a period-style studio, coloring of turn-of-the-century photographs, bear with a tamer, old-fashioned games, and the Varieté Company Karneval.

PROGRAM

10:00 AM – Turn of the Century Day and the market open

10:00 AM – City walk starting in front of the Old Prison, Residensgatan 1. Peter Johansson will share stories about events and personalities from Vänersborg’s history.

10:30 AM – Music performance by Wenerblecket

11:00 AM – Show with the Varieté Company Karneval. Conny the Con Man (circus and fakir), Miss Zeniou (strongwoman and aerialist), Turbani (fortune teller), Dr. Cagliostro (curiosity cabinet and scientific demonstrations).

11:30 AM – Music performance by Wenerblecket

12:00 PM – Vänersborg Folk Dance Group

12:30 PM – Varieté Company Karneval

1:00 PM – Presentation of the book about Edit

1:30 PM – Brätte exhibition

2:00 PM – Varieté Company Karneval

3:00 PM – Students from the Music and Cultural School perform theater, music, and song

4:00 PM – Turn of the Century Day and the market close

Program changes may occur.

Free admission! Welcome!

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Vänersborgs museum

Östra plantaget, 462 33 Vänersborg, Sverige

Vänersborg


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