The Swedish Army Museum

While out strolling on Östermalm in Stockholm recently, I took a shortcut over Artillerigården where you will find The Swedish Army Museum at Riddargatan. Or Armémuseum in Swedish. The architect was Carl Cronstedt. Finished in 1770. Inside you can look at some of the 100 000 items that the museum has to offer. Outside you can see old cannons. A statue remembering fallen soldiers at the battle of Poltava. Stridsvagn 103 which is a battle tank from the 1950s. And of course the interesting design of the fence.

Tyra Kleen

Tyra Kleen. Born in 1894. Painter. Author. Spiritualist. Adventurer. A century ago, she travelled to Bali to study dance. She stayed there for quite a long time. These are a few of her gouaches from that trip.They can be seen in the park at the Etnografiska museet in Stockholm.

Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde

A Summer visit to a sculpture museum at Royal Djurgården. Or at least a walk through the garden, looking at the many sculptures. Made by some of the best known sculptors at the time. Including Milles and Eldh. All the artwork here were bought by the Prince. Many years ago Prince Eugen, himself a painter and artist who got some of his art education in Paris, visited a friend at Waldemarsudde. He liked the area, so he bought a property and then had Sweden's best known architect at the time design a house for him. He also had an English garden built. After his death, the property was made into a museum. It is a very beautiful place. It sees a lot of visitors. The Prince is buried down by the water. There are two greenhouses here and all the flowers in the garden comes from there. The mill dates back to 1784. The blades were removed around 1880 which was fifty years after they stopped producing linseed oil here. There are paintings of the mill made by the Prince, where you can see that the blades were broken. The mill is in perfect working order, though.

The Nordic Museum

Theme Day.Museums. Back at Royal Djurgården. This is the Nordic Museum. Or, Nordiska museet at Lejonslätten. If you ever visit Djurgården, you can't miss it. After an idea from Artur Hazelius who also was responsible for Skansen. In here you will find Swedish history, dating back over 500 years. You need a big memory card here as the museum have 1 500 000 items in their records. The building itself dates back a little over a century, and was designed by the architect Isak Gustaf Clason. My first visit here was a school trip in the 1970s, and that was also my last visit to the museum.

Ryssgården

The square Ryssgården at Slussen on Södermalm in Stockholm. The big building is Stadsmuseet. The Stockholm City Museum. Originally built back in 1663. Designed by the architect Nicodemus Tessin den äldre. The name Ryssgården comes from the fact that several hundred years ago, Russian merchants sold their goods here.

Braided Concrete

In the park behind the National museum at Blasieholmen in Stockholm there is a new building. Two architect firms worked on this project, and the brains behind it was Stefano Mangili. But the real heroes here were the people from Strängbetong if you ask me. And apparently it is still a secret how they made the braided concrete pattern. I showed you a couple of photos last Summer from here and I remember Judith wanting to see more of the wall, so here it is.

Fotografiska

I don't do museums, but I have of course been to this one, although the fika experience wasnt much to write home about. This is the Fotografiska museum at Stadsgårdskajen on Södermalm in Stockholm. Started by the Broman brothers. Photographed from Fjällgatan. And as I am a real photographer I shot this as a panorama, so this is a couple of photos stitched together. I think Fotografiska have six galleries/museums all over the world by now. The building itself was designed a century ago by the famous architect Ferdidand Broberg.

S/S Orion

If you are in to museums, this might be of interest to you. Docked at Skeppsholmen, in Stockholm, this is the S/S Orion. The steam-ship was constructed in Helsinborg, in the south of Sweden in 1929. It was used among other things to inspect ships. It was in service until 1979. Today a museum. Oh, and I shot this with the new mirrorless Canon, using the 85mm lens. It is four photos stitched together.

The Nostalgia Museum

As promised in yesterdays post here is the slideshow with my photos from the nostalgia museum, Mopedum in Nynäshamn. If you have trouble seeing the slideshow Press Here to see the photos at flickr.

Ultrahuset Exhibition

The legendary music scene Ultrahuset at Källvägen in Handen ended after an occupation and a fire that destroyed the building. For eight years back in the 1980s it was a very active music scene and every punk band that ever existed probably played there. Now a quarter of a century later an exhibition about those years opened at the Handen Museum at Getporsvägen in Handen. During my visit to the museum yesterday a few people that were active during that period during the 1980s spoke about their involvement. The photographer here is Lars Epstein from the big morning paper Dagens Nyheter. If you understand Swedish you can read his blog post about it here.

The Dragon Gate

This is the new and very impressive wrought iron gate at the Handen Museum. You have seen photos from the museum a few times before. It is owned and operated by Agnes & Martin, who have a Viking festival here once a year. Martin, who works as a Blacksmith have now created this fantastic work of art, that shows a Dragon fighting with a Viking warrior. I believe that David, the apprentice from yesterdays post have helped out a bit.

A Former Museum

This little cottage at the Hammar estate in Tungelsta was built by a great-great grandparent to the current owner Charlotte. He was a man that sailed with one of the Swedish East India Company ships to India and China nearly two hundred years ago. On the first two trips he brought home many items, and to have a place to store and show them he decided to build this little museum. Sadly he died during his third expedition to Asia. After posting this photo at flickr one of my Swedish readers in the US told me that a relative of his was the captain on one of these ships. Small world.

A Little Museum

Sven Wallander was a man with a vision. He was an architect and had a dream that the average worker in Stockholm should be able to enjoy a weeks vacation down by the coast. In 1929 that dream came true as four hundred summer houses like this one at the square at Årsta Havsbad were ready. As were the new roads to the seaside resort and the all the stores needed for the summer visitors. Another architect, Osvald Almqvist designed the houses that were built at a factory in Sparreholm. There were a few different models to choose from. They were all very small not bigger than 16 square meter. They were very basic and had no running water or indoor toilet. You could stay here for one week with your family. The cost was ten kronor. The first people that took advantage of this opportunity worked at the Dagens Nyheter, the big morning paper in Stockholm. Later some of the workers bought their own houses and many more were built. Today it's a different story. Many of the 800 houses have been rebuilt and redesigned and a number of people live here year round. Last weekend Årsta Havsbad celebrated 80 years and I decided to have a look in the museum at the square. This sports hut was donated by Sonja and Evert Jalke in 1999. It is today a museum and looks just like it did back in 1930 when it was built. All the furniture and home appliances in the hut are gifts from the locals. During my visit I met Richard Roosvall who showed me around. Instead of picking two or three photos I decided to use the flickr slideshow and I hope it works. So press the little arrow to start the slideshow.

At the Museum

Last Saturday during Tungelsta Day saw the opening of a new museum at the Tungelsta Park. You will find the museum on the second floor of the Torklada. It will feature items relating to Tungelsta's gardening history. Back in the 1950ths there was more that 70 horticulture businesses in Tungelsta. Now in 2008 there are nine left. Here you see Mats Wiger in what must be his gallery look. That's a mighty fine wooden box he's saying to himself I think.

Museum

This is the museum at Morarna on the Gålö peninsula. Run by Gålö Gärsar , the local homestead society. I met some of the members when I visited the charcoal kiln thing last week. Gärsar was a nickname given to the men that grew up at Gålö, and it's also the name of a fish. And now you know that! At the museum you can see how people lived here in the archipelago at Gålö many years ago. Obviously it was closed on my visit!

School Museum

On a winter morning in February back in 1847, a teacher opened the green door to let the first students in to this school at Svartbäcken. 150 years after that first school day, on February 15 1997, the door opened again. That's when the school museum opened. Inside you will find a typical class room as it would have looked a century ago. This is the oldest school building in Haninge. If you hear any screaming kids nearby it's because the modern school at Svartbäcken is only a few meters away. Bigger photo.

A little museum

A new smithy, shop and a museum at Svenro in Handen. Bigger photo. The address is Getporsvägen 8. Started by Martin Ahlsén (blacksmith, musician and painter), and Agnes Almström who designs her own jewelry which can be bought at the shop.

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