Villa Lusthusporten

In 1873 the trader Brink leased the land to architects Axel and Hjalmar Kumlien who built then a house on the site.

During the great General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1897), the villa was temporarily used as press office and police station.

[2] The building was sold to the cork magnate Hjalmar Wicander in 1898 and he commissioned architect Carl Möller to remodel the house to its present appearance of a Baroque Revival architecture with Art Nouveau decor considered fashion at the time.

Later the site was reduced in favor of a public promenade and the villa fenced with an iron railing.

[1] In 1940 Villa Lusthusporten was donated to the Nordic Museum Foundation when the Institute of Ethnology was established.