Exhibition – Exceptionally Healthy and Well

Join us in discovering Hjo’s bathing culture more than a hundred years ago and the health-promoting way of life it offered. Guided by photographs and an advertising booklet from 1899, we get a glimpse of Hjo’s pride for more than 50 years: Hjo Water Cure Institute.

About Hjo Water Cure Institute

Hjo Water Cure Institute opened in 1878. A large bathing park was laid out, and in the following years several villas with guest rooms were built for visitors to the spa resort. Among other treatments, guests were prescribed natural and artificial medicinal waters, mud baths, tar baths and electrical treatments.

But a visit to the institute did not mean nothing but deprivation. Guests went on excursions or relaxed in the Society Salon. If they were not strolling through the bathing park, they might play lawn tennis with willing opponents. At the Bellevue bathing restaurant, they enjoyed good three-course dinners and the view.