Self-Guided Art Tour: Lindsborg’s founding fathers and the Lindsborg community of today are dedicated to higher learning and love of the arts. Central to the community isBethany College, a private liberal arts college with a long tradition in the arts. Lindsborg is home to the longest running continual performance of Handel’s Messiah, and Broadway RFD is the longest running outdoor theater in the state of Kansas. The local school district was awarded for being one of the best 100 communities in America for outstanding music programs in primary education. Presentations of music, visual arts and performing arts are at the heart of our daily lives and ethnic celebrations. With 60 working artists and nine public working studios and galleries, public art is a way of life in Little Sweden, USA.
View or download the Art in Public Places brochure here.
Outside in downtown Lindsborg: The 100 and 200 block of South Main and the 100 block of North Main are hosts to 47 works of art from artists both past and present. Look for paintings, the Wild Dala herd, sculptures, wind vanes, murals, iron works and tiles.
Go Inside!
Bibliotek (Lindsborg Community Library), 111 S. Main St. - Houses wild Dalas, wood carvings, and decorative ironwork in the Swedish room.
Blacksmith Coffee Shop & Roastery, 122 N Main S - Historic site with nails hammered into brick, indicating display of public bulletin board from years gone by
Dröm Sött, Sweet Dreams Inn, 112 W. Lincoln St. - Handpainted border in dining room and kurbit panel in public restroom.
Designs Floral Shop, 103 N. Main St. - G.N. Malm stenciled walls dating early 1900s.
Lindsborg Post Office - 125 E. Lincoln Street - Birger Sandzen wall mural.
Inside the Courtyard building at 125 N. Main St. - Maleta Forsberg wall mural.
First Bank Kansas, 118 N. Main St. - Ask to see the Swedish folk paintings in the community room.
White's Foodliner, 215 Harrison St. - Decorative ironwork.
Location
Artwork Title or Medium
Artist
Bethany College Campus
Several sculptures around campus. Wallerstedt Learning Center (Library) - Multiple works by various artists.
Various artists
Bethany Lutheran Church 320 N. Main St.
Sculptures Sculpture Mosaic Multiple works
Oscar Gunnarson John Whitfield Malcolm Esping Various artists in the church
Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery 401 N. First St.
The Little Triton Rags and the Children
Carl Milles Pete Felton
Corner of Lincoln and Harrison
Välkommen Arch
Dauer Welding
Elmwood Cemetery 1/4 mile east on Wells Fargo Rd. off of Harrison St.
Wrought iron arch at entrance
Brian Holdsworth
Messiah Lutheran Church 402 N. First St.
Stained Glass Windows Peace Pole and Labyrinth Other works
Eldon B. Swensson N/A Various artists in the church
Smoky Valley High School Commons Area #1 Viking Blvd
Viking (life-size Viking wood carving)
Dave Anderson
Swensson Park 400 block of N. Main St.
Viking Valley - Wild Dala Horse and Murals
N/A
St. Bridget Catholic Church 206 W. Swensson St.
Lucia
John Whitfield
Lindsborg Hospital 601 W. Lincoln St.
Florence Nightingales's Lamp
John Whitfield
N.W. of Lindsborg, 2 miles south of Coronado Heights Road on 12th Ave.
Marker on Location of First Bethany Church
John Whitfield
3 locations: Riverside Park corner of First St. and Lindsborg St., 824 N. Second St., 422 N. Washington St.
Rune Stones
John Whitfield
Coronado Heights, N.W. of Lindsborg off of 13th Ave.
