Skärhamn
Skärhamn is a locality and the seat of Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 3,193 inhabitants in 2010. The main tourist attraction in Skärhamn besides yachting is The Nordic Watercolour Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,500 residents
- Description: urban area in Tjörn Municipality, Sweden.
- Also known as: “Skaerhamn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skärhamns kyrka and Nordic Watercolour Museum.
Nordic Watercolour Museum
Museum
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nordic Watercolour Museum is a museum, artist workshop and research facility in Skärhamn on the island of Tjörn in Sweden, opened in 2000. The architects behind the museum, painted in the typical Swedish Falu red colour, are the Danes Niels Bruun and Henrik Corfitsen, who won the assignment after an international competition.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kållekärr and Åstol.
Kållekärr
Village
Photo: Ingwik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kållekärr is a locality situated in Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 560 inhabitants in 2010. Kållekärr is situated 8 km northeast of Skärhamn.
Åstol
Hamlet
Photo: Pål-Nils Nilsson, Public domain.
Åstol is a locality situated south of Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 210 inhabitants in 2010. Åstol is an island and a locality in Tjörn Municipality in Rönnäng Parish situated in the Province of Bohuslän. Åstol is situated 8 km south of Skärhamn.
Skärhamn
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
57.99092° or 57° 59′ 27″ northLongitude
11.5498° or 11° 32′ 59″ eastPopulation
3,500Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE SKMOpen location code
9F9HXGRX+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29690590OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Vietnamese—“Skärhamn” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Шерхамн”
- Cebuano: “Skärhamn”
- Chinese: “Skärhamn”
- Chinese: “謝爾港”
- Chinese: “谢尔港”
- Danish: “Skærhamn”
- Danish: “Skärhamn”
- Dutch: “Skarhamn”
- Dutch: “Skärhamn”
- Faroese: “Skärhamn”
- Finnish: “Skärhamn”
- French: “Skärhamn”
- German: “Skärhamn”
- Icelandic: “Skärhamn”
- Irish: “Skärhamn”
- Italian: “Skärhamn”
- Ladin: “Skärhamn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Skärhamn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skärhamn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skärhamn”
- Norwegian: “Skärhamn”
- Persian: “شرهامن”
- Polish: “Skärhamn”
- Portuguese: “Skärhamn”
- Romanian: “Skärhamn”
- Russian: “Шерхамн”
- Scots: “Skarhamn”
- Scots: “Skärhamn”
- Slovenian: “Skärhamn”
- Swedish: “Skärhamn”
- Vietnamese: “Skärhamn”
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Notable Places Nearby
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