CCHS visits Lilla Änggården
On a somewhat cold and hazy day, Deputy Director Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and members of the CCHS executive group visited Lilla Änggården to discuss the development of a collaborative platform with a focus on research and education, with Lilla Änggården as the node.
A selection from its exciting history
The Lilla Änggården museum is located in the Änggården district, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Lilla Änggården is part of the Gothenburg City Museum and has an exciting history spanning three centuries. The house has 13 rooms, each with many exciting things – here, for example, we find a photo of Viktor Rydberg, who was probably a guest in the house, and the last housekeeper's handbag and work shoes have been left in the kitchen as a reminder of times gone by.
Fanny Grén Broberg
In one of the kitchen cabinets is Fanny Grén Broberg's beautiful teacup. Fanny grew up in Gothenburg in the mid-19th century and studied at the Valand Academy of Fine Arts. Some of her creations hang in one of the rooms. Fanny inherited Lilla and Stora Änggården, the latter building is now in the Botanical Garden. Fanny's children Sven Grén Broberg and Carl Grén Broberg in turn inherited the house from their parents Fanny and Carl Broberg. There was another sibling, Emmy Grén Broberg, who moved to Stockholm, trained as a gymnastics director and later helped found Sweden's first girl scouts in 1911.
Lilla Änggården was a house and home with equally exciting surroundings in the form of a garden and a park. Fanny's father Arvid helped found the Gothenburg Garden Society and probably had a great interest in plants that were reflected in the garden.
"The visit and today's discussions give us something to look forward to and I am thrilled to continue the collaboration with Lilla Änggården", says Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, deputy director and head of the research node CCHS/Lilla Änggården.