Vitlycke museum

Accessibility

Vitlycke Museum is also the visitor centre for the Tanum rock carvings, a World Heritage Site. To see the rock carvings in the Tanum World Heritage area, visitors must travel to various outdoor locations themselves. This section is about the accessibility at Vitlycke Museum. It also informs about which rock carving sites are best adapted for accessibility.

Visiting Vitlycke Museum

To avoid using steps, you can drive up to the main entrance of the museum. Drive towards the long side of the museum and turn left up the gravel slope to drop off passengers. Another option is to use the lift: contact reception and they will open it on the long side of the museum: Phone: +46 (0)10-441 43 10.

  • The museum has four toilets, one of which is spacious and adapted for wheelchair users. 
  • A wheelchair is available at the cloakroom if you wish to borrow one.
  • The museum has a café, shop and reception that also serves as an information centre.
  • There is an indoor exhibition showing life during the Bronze Age.

 

The spear god at Litsleby.

Litsleyby rock carvings - accessible to everyone

Litsleby rock is about 2 km from Vitlycke museum. It is easy to reach the rock carvings from there. There is only a short distance from the parking to the carvings and there are ramps available for rollators, wheelchairs and strollers, as well as information for people with visual impairments.

Bulls, dears and animal rock carvings painted red.

Aspeberget - accessibility

Aspeberget is 700 metres from Vitlycke museum. It has an accessible parking area from where you can take a wheelchair to the first rock carving. The path around the hill is about 800 metres long.

audience sitting in fron of a guide

The Vitlycke Panel - walking distance

A 300 metre-long gravel road from the car park takes you to Vitlyckehällen. The surface is loose and uneven with a moderate slope up to the rock. The carvings are painted and there are information signs. The path near Vitlyckehällen connects several smaller carvings and two burial cairns, and has steps to improve accessibility.

bronze age farm with longhouses

The Bronze Age farm

The Bronze Age farm is 50 metres behind the museum and is a reconstructed outdoor exhibition place. With its longhouses, it illustrates how people lived about 3000 years ago during the Bronze Age. There is a gravel path between the museum and the courtyard, and the stone path in the farm has an uneven surface.