Exhibition – Especially Healthy and Well

Join us in exploring Hjo’s bathing culture more than a hundred years ago and its health-promoting way of life. Guided by photographs and an advertising pamphlet from 1899, we gain an insight into Hjo’s pride for more than 50 years: Hjo Vattenkuranstalt.

About Hjo Vattenkuranstalt

Hjo Vattenkuranstalt opened in 1878. A large bathing park was laid out, and over the following years several villas with guest rooms were built for visitors to the spa. Among other treatments, guests were prescribed natural and artificial health waters, mud baths, tar baths and electrical treatments. But a visit to the spa was not all deprivation. Guests went on excursions or relaxed in the Society Salon. If they were not strolling in the bathing park, they might play lawn tennis with willing opponents. At the Bellevue bathhouse restaurant, they enjoyed good three-course dinners and the view.