Teknikland is a military history and technology museum which is located at the Östersund-Optand airfield southwest of

Östersund Östersund (; sma, Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-largest lake, Storsjön, ...

. Teknikland has one of Sweden's largest collections of civilian and military aircraft. On the grounds howitzers, Bofors guns and armoured personal carriers are also displayed. SAAB JA37 Viggen

History

Teknikland was opened on 5 June 2010. The basis for the museum was the Jämtlands Flyg- och Lottamuseum which opened in 1994. The museum is run by the

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Jämtland Teknikland AB. Shareholders are ''

Jamtli Jamtli is the name of the regional open air museum of Jämtland and Härjedalen in Östersund, Sweden. It consists of an open-air museum with historical buildings, and an indoor museum with both permanent and temporary exhibitions. “Jamtli� ...

'' and a number of nonprofit organizations. The museum is funded by ''Statens Försvarshistoriska museer'', the European Regional Development Fund, and private donors. The museum consists of three permanent and a number of temporary exhibitions. One of the permanent exhibitions is called the Garage (''Garaget'') and consists of antique cars and buses. This building also hosts a workshop for kids based on the educational concept KomTek. The permanent aircraft exhibition ''Flyg- och Lottamuseum'' contains all the jet-aircraft that have previously been deployed by

Jämtland Wing Jämtland Wing ( sv, Jämtlands flygflottilj), also F 4 Frösön, or simply F 4, is a former Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located at Åre Östersund Airport outside Östersund on Frösön in the middle of Sweden. History The airbase ...

. There is also an exhibition dedicated to the

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which operated a canteen on the airfield during the 1930s–1940s (when the airfield was a secret military airbase in preparation for a German attack). The third permanent exhibition is the Garrison (''Garnisonen'') containing weapons, uniforms and other artifacts of Swedish Army history, mostly from the former Östersund regiments I 5 and A 4. The visitor is able to learn about the

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; a disastrous retreat by a Swedish Carolean army under the command of Lieutenant-general Carl Gustaf Armfeldtt (1666–1736) across the Tydal mountain range in

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around the new year 1718–1719.

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External links

Teknikland website
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