OPENING HOURS 2023.
SUMMER 2023.
Maritime Day starts on 25 June at 10.00 with our popular gadget and flea market outside the museum.
From June 25 to August 13 we are open every day from 14:00 to 17:00
Foto:Ulf Löwengren
Skillinge Maritime Museum
Visiting address: Strandgatan 34, Skillinge
Email: skillingemuseum@gmail.com
123-223 91 43
President:
Cashier:
Sereter:
Members:
Substitute:
Bengt Svenow.
Bengt-Åke Ingvarsson
Tilla Larsson
Brita Blank,
Ulf Löwengren
Rolf Johansson &
Anders Thorsson.
Board 2023.
Viewing outside regular opening hours,
please contact:
Bengt Svenow 073-8274745
Ulf Löwengren 0738-182500
Free entrance to the museum, but we are happy to accept a voluntary gift to support operation and maintenance.
Foto: Ulf Löwengren
The port of Skillinge in 2022
Photo: Magnus Löwengren
Welcome to the Skillinge Maritime Museum.
The Skillinge Maritime Museum is devoted to shipping
(small coastal sailing freighters) and to local fisheries.
In the middle ages the community belonged to the town of Thumatorp (today Östra Tommarp) and the inhabitants had to pay taxes and other fees to the monastery and to the lepra hospital of that town. Later it was the town of Åhus that was responsible for all administration and judicial matters up to 1888. In the year of 1889 Skillinge became an independing community.
From on or about 1850 the great age of sail started in Skillinge and a great number of vessels transported grain, turnips, potatoes and timber to and from Blekinge on the southeastern coast of Sweden. As time went by the fleet grew both in numbers and in tonnage. The number of vessels during a period of a hundred years (1850 to 1950) was more than 300.
In the museum there is a list of all registered vessels during that period. The pictures on the museum walls show some of the Skillinge sailng vessels.
The figurehead in the corner represents the monk San Antonius and comes from a sailng vessel with that same name. Today the vessel sails under the German flag and is registered in Hamburg under the name of Herzogin Elisabeth.
On the upper floor the museum has an extensive archive of documents and of photographs from the oldern days in Skillinge. The archive is available to researchers and other interested persons.
The museum also contains fishing equipment and tools of fishing trade as well as vessels in bottles and other curiosities.
There is no admission fee but the museum gratefully accepts voluntary contributions to aid the activities. Postcards and a number of books are on sale.
Thank you for your kind visit and we hope you have found the museum and its information satisfactory.
The Board of the Museum.
To meet, socialize and find out more.
The museum has a number of objects, documents, photographs, documents and more that need different handling. On Tuesdays between 18:30 and 20:00, about ten members gather in the museum to work on various tasks and projects. Everyone is welcome to join, no prior knowledge is required. We are keen that the knowledge is passed on so that future generations can experience Skillinge's history.
The old men in the right picture met at "Börsen" to socialize and find out what was going on in society.
Welcome to find out more, or just hang out.
The stock exchange at the so-called Sejlhuset. From left Ola Nilsson the yacht Freja, Lars Henriksson the open wreck, Jeppa Glivberg the skipper, Arild Stenkilsson the fisherman, Olof Andersson the schooner, Axel Karlsson the three-masted schooner Kiana, Nils Leander the three-masted schooner Delos, Anton Bengtsson the barque Anna, Magnus Thorsson the schooner Petronella. Unknown photographer.
View of Skillinge. One of the few pictures that show the so-called "The Hague's bridge". The current business was at that time shipping, owned by Niclas Haagen. The beach was shallow, so a longer jetty was built. The boats could thus dock at the outer part of the jetty to unload and load goods. The inner part of the wharf connected below the Municipal House, where the Maritime Museum today has its premises. A storm in 1904 destroyed the pier, which was never rebuilt.
New exhibition in 2022.
The museum will show a new exhibition starting at Easter 2022.
It shows Skillinge's building development from 1810 until today.
The house models are built to a scale of 1:100 by Ulf Löwengren.
The basis for the houses from 1810 is taken from the Scanian reconnaissance map from 1810. The map was drawn up when it was feared that Napoleon would withdraw to the north. On the map you can see the relative location and shape of the houses.
The western part of Skillinge Skifteslag, the left part from 1810 and the right shows today's buildings.
2 models of "Tudeludan" built by Ulf Löwengren which can be viewed at the Museum.
Strandgatan 28 on the left and
Strandgatan 26 on the right.
The boats hauled up after today's fishing.