The Match Museum () in

Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat o ...

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is one of the few museums of

match A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by friction generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matc ...

es in the world. It is located at the ''Tändsticksområdet'', housed in Jönköping's first match factory. The museum highlights the people that worked in the factory and how the factory functioned.

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