Museum Week

CITY HALL

This is the room where the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm sits:

You can get married at City Hall for free. On the Wednesday afternoon I visited, there were 40 couples due to tie the knot here that evening. 

There are 2 ceremonial options: the short - 30-60 seconds; or the long - 2 minutes. 

The room is a bit blah but you get to walk the same grand stairs that the Nobel Prize laureates use when they enter the banquet. 

A hall next door. I thought this was the wedding room. It should be:

NORDIC MUSEUM

Sweden's largest museum on cultural history is housed in another amazing building, completed in 1907.

Located on Djurgarden island:

Sculpture of King Gustav Vasa (1496-1560), "father of the nation":

"Furniture of the Year" some year this Millenium:

An 1870's "cooking room" of about 20sqm with the cooker built into the tiled heating stove:

Roast swan anyone? 

Festive dinner from the late 17th century, second course.

The plumage of the swan is used over & over, with a new roast placed in it:

This is a fabulous image from the exhibition, Men in Bathing Suits:

"Perhaps men in bathing suits will be back.

Perhaps women in swim trucks will be trendy."

MODERN MUSEUM

On Skeppsholmen island.

On its inauguration in 1958, the whole building was wrapped in Andy Warhol's cow wallpaper.

Unfortunately, this has since been moved inside:

A scene from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927).

Can't wait to watch the whole movie:

ARCHITECT MUSEUM

It's sometimes too cold to grow vegetables outside.

Windowfarm is a vertical hydroponic framing system for year-round indoor vegetable growing inside windows.

 Almost anything can be grown, as long as it's not a root vegetable (eg. carrots, radishes).

 I've also visited the Natural History museum & Cosmonova - a huge 760sqm dome-shaped IMAX screen, the largest in Scandinavia. Watched a documentary on the Hubble Telescope, so it was an even more impressive experience.

No camera that day :-(