1844, John Lund strom and Carl Lundstrom (Johan och Carl Lundstr? M) Two brothers are at No.27 Match Hutong (T? ndsticksgr？ nd 27，J？ nk？ Ping), began to produce phosphorus medicine matches. Two years later, they set up the first match factory in China where the museum is today. At first, the production procedures were mostly manual. For example, workers can get gunpowder by dipping matchsticks into the medicine trough by hand, and matchboxes are all made by hand. Nowadays, the scene of pasting cartons around the family dining table has already entered an interesting genre painting.

1864, Alexander Laghman, a 28-year-old mechanic, invented the first automatic match machine, which completed many processes such as match production, feeding and finished product packaging at one time. This behemoth, which occupies half the hall, looks really stupid today, but once it is started, it can make tens of thousands of matches in a few minutes, thus ending the era when match production has always been manual. Since then, with Yan as the center, Swedish matches have been sold all over Europe and even all over the world.

1903, six match factories in Sweden formed a joint company. 19 13, eight emerging match factories, headed by ivar kreugev (1880-1932), set up another company, intending to compete with Yan Match United Company. However, after a while, due to lack of money, they finally got 1965438. As a result, the Swedish Match Company was established to unify the whole country and dominate Europe. In its heyday, they produced 9 of the 65,438+00 matches lit all over the world.

The second floor of the museum is the world of trademarks. Match trademarks of different ages and countries are neatly arranged in the showcase. Surprisingly, there are three trademarks with the heads of Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and Li in China during the Xinhai Revolution. Former Swedish King Farouk is a world-famous collector. On one occasion, he heard that Denmark found a trademark of matches produced by Yan Xueping Match Factory, so he spent 3000 Swedish kronor to fly to Copenhagen by special plane to buy it back. That is one of the earliest match trademarks produced by Yan, which reads: sulfur-free indoor matches. According to statistics, so far, Sweden has exported more than 10,000 kinds of match trademarks overseas, and even more if they are sold at home.