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In the early 20th century, the museum mainly collected objects from the peasant society: ploughs, platters, painted boxes, spinning wheels and other old-fashioned objects. Townspeople in Jönköping also donated many beautiful objects to the museum. The town’s craftsmen were also represented with the tools and objects they had produced. In the mid-1930s, the museum employed its first county custodian of antiquities, who carried out a systematic documentation of the iron industry in the county.
In 1956, a new county museum building was opened in Jönköping. After many years of restricted space, we could now accept large collections, among them a collection of objects from missionaries in Africa, China, Japan and India. We also accepted various donations and commemorative collections of antiques.
During the 1970s and 80s we also received large donations from homes, but now of more everyday objects. At this time, the museum world discussed how to overcome the uneven representation that had emerged. An association for contemporary research and collecting, SAMDOK, was set up. Each museum became responsible for certain areas of collecting. Jönköping County Museum became responsible for free churches, furniture manufacturing in Småland and the small industries in Gnosjö.
Today, the collection includes 55,000 so called inventory numbers, which equals around 100,000 objects (since one number can include several objects).
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