Sweden's folkpark entertainment tradition has a living museum piece in Gamla Linkoping: the yellow wooden Folkparksteatern, built in 1921 in Linkoping's Folkets Park to drawings by Axel Brunskog and moved across the street into the open-air museum in 2014-15, where it was restored to its 1920s form. The relocation - triggered when housing was planned for the park site - was treated as a full reconstruction of a folk-park environment: the original entrance building with its ticket kiosks was recreated from Brunskog's drawings, along with a 1960s tombola stand complete with working chocolate wheel and an exhibition on the history of Linkoping's Folkets Park. The rebuilt ensemble was inaugurated on 9 May 2015. The theatre opened in 1921 with the folk comedy Varmlanningarna as an open-air stage; a roof went over the auditorium in 1927 (the form chosen for the reconstruction), and in its heyday the hall was extended to take a thousand seated and a thousand standing. Today it is an indoor theatre holding roughly 500-600, presenting theatre, concerts, stand-up and family shows - Folkparken Produktion, Ostergotland's largest independent performing-arts producer, stages its popular summer family productions here, and touring comedy bills fill summer weekends. The setting seals the charm: the surrounding museum quarter of cobbled streets, craft shops and cafes makes an evening at the theatre feel like part of the exhibit, and Dahlbergs Cafe and the museum's other haunts are a stroll away.

Type: Theater / Concert Hall

Address: Tunnbindaregatan 6A, Linkoping, Sweden, 582 46

Capacity: 500

Opening Date: 01/01/1921