The first snow

Swing carousel

Eye candies at the Sweden’s Nationalmuseum

After a five-year refurbishment Sweden’s Nationalmuseum, the country’s biggest museum of art and design, finally reopened on 13 October in Stockholm.

Carl Larsson, (1853 -1919)  - "Gustav Vasa enters Stockholm year 1523" - in the hall of the central staircase in Nationalmuseum

Carl Larsson - Midvinterblot (Swedish for "Midwinter sacrifice")  

Giovanni Battista Recco (c.1631-16769  Still life with fish and oysters (1653)

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, (1751-1811)

Queen Marie Antoinette of France with two of her children walking in the park of Trianon (1785)

Cabinet c. 1650, Unknown, Flemish

Joos de Momper (1564-1635)

Skipwreck of the Greek Fleet on the Voyage Home from Troy (fragment)

Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636-1695)

Still life with birds and gears in a niche c. 1663

Autumn on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm

Le Paradis Fantastique (1966) - Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)

Seen at the Baking & Chocolate Festival at Stockholm International Fairs

Feathers - at the Etnografiska museet in Stockholm (October 9 - March 3 2020)

The spectacular exhibition Feathers at the Etnografiska museet in Stockholm demonstrates how feathers were and still are used all over the world.

Feather costumes, one for a man (above) and one for a woman (below), are from the Ka’apor of Brazil, who wear these decorative items during their most important festival, at which children are named.

Eiderdown anorak with hood - Grönland (year 1883) and Katmandu (year 2000)

Hand fan

Shaman doll

Tevau - Solomon Islands Feather Money. 

The red feathers of this money were integrated into striplike coils of fiber. The feathers came either from the parrot Trichoglossus massena, or from a red-scarlet honey-eater named Myzomela cardinalis. 

The islanders paid fines, ransoms, and blood money in feather money. It was too valuable to be useful for an everyday medium of exchange. 

Etnografiska museetAddressDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34
115 27 Stockholm

Webpagewww.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/etnografiskamuseet/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/feathers/about-the-exhibition

Family life at Kolmården Wildlife Park