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Alingsas Museum

Alingsas museum was a museum located in the Alstromerska magazine at Little Square in Alingsas . The museum closes 30 January 2010.The building was constructed by Jonas Alstromer around 1730 and is Alingsas oldest secular building. Originally it was used as material for the magazine Alingsas manufacturing system clock, and was attended among others by Carl Linnaeus, 7 July 1746 , describing it thoroughly in his Vastgota Travel:
"Materials magazine was a large stone house, in which the bottom was a large, warm cellar, in which every kind of wet stuff and a great multitude of colors preserved. In this magazine were seen ofanteliga WOOLSACK, strange kattunsformer and all sorts fargmaterialier, which lay in store, while the hid a large capital, to be ready at the first hint. Of the materialier, I saw this, I will only specify the principal. "Then he enumerates a hundred of ditto.

Nolhaga Castle

Nolhaga (North Haga) is mentioned since the 1500s. Along with Sorhaga educated farm village named Carthage or Hagen.When Jonas Alstrom (knighted Alstromer 1751) returned to his hometown Alingsas 1723 from his long stay in England and study tours in Europe, he bought Nolhaga and several neighboring farms and formed Nolhaga Manor. Along with Alingsas manufacturing system clock inside the Alingsas drove Jonas Alstrom Nolhaga with several outbuildings, fields, crops for medicinal plants, tobacco and paint plants for the textile industries in the city, pipbruk, brickworks, saws, grinders and a kladesstamp. On Nolhaga he also experimented with potatoes and sheep and getavel.

Lights in Alingsas

Lights in Alingsas is held in october. Light designers illuminate public spaces in exciting ways for everyone to see.

June - September

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