Collaboration with Lilla Änggården

The collaboration aims to strengthen the knowledge profile at Lilla Änggården and make the site and its archive available as a resource for researchers and students.

"The desire is to create a platform for questions about cultural heritage, design and sustainability", says Astrid von Rosen, director of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Lilla Änggården – background and future

"Lilla Änggården is a house, a home, a garden and a park with a history that spans three centuries", says Daniel Gillberg, Gothenburg City Museum.

Lilla Änggården was donated in 1963 by the Grèn Broberg family. The Gothenburg City Museum was then given responsibility for, among other things, archives, objects and public activities. The family's will also mentions the University of Gothenburg and a wish that the donated home, house, garden and park should be used by researchers associated with the said university.

In 2018, a development plan was drawn up by the Gothenburg City Museum, Higab, the City Property Administration and the City Environment Administration. In this, the research perspective is further specified. The goal is to strengthen the knowledge profile of the place and to eventually create a "researcher's cottage" at Lilla Änggården.

The work with the development plan led to a collaboration within the framework of the already existing project Hidden Sites and the research cluster Curating the City at the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg. During the years 2020 – 2023, a number of seminars were held together with an interdisciplinary research group that worked on the site in various ways.

The new collaboration agreement is intended to function as a framework for the research presence at Lilla Änggården and will form the basis for continued and deepened collaboration.

"We hope that the collaboration will increase understanding and knowledge about Lilla Änggården", says Daniel Gillberg, Gothenburg City Museum.