The article deals with the migration during the late parts of the 1800s of Swedish iron workers to Tirlyan in the southern part of the Ural Mountains and the every day life of the Swedish colony, this process een in the light of the story telling and the preserved artefacts in Russia and Sweden. The way this "detail" in the history of Swedish emigration and the modernization of the Russian iron industry sector has been presented, by whom and for what reasons, is discussed in the article, by help of modern research concerning cultural heritage presentation challenges for museums and researchers in the world of today.