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January 23, 2018

2017 - Flying Barrel - a unique educational interactive exhibition - Roger Eliasson - Aeroseum

The Aeroseum Foundation operates an aviation experience center in a 22,000 sqm underground mountain hangar. The mountain is classified as world unique by the National Defense History Museum. The facility ...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Swedish industrial design pioneers - A&E design - Alexander Husebye - Föreningen Centrum för Näringslivshistoria

A&E Design is the oldest independent industrial design office in Sweden. The two founders, in 1968, were Hans Ehrich and Tom Ahlström....

January 23, 2018

2017 - Allan Österlind - the Swedish artist who became French - Kåa Wennberg

Allan Österlind (1855-1938), painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor. After studying 1874-76 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Osterlind went to Paris in 1877 where he became...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Gunnebo Castle and the artistic program of the neoclassical villa - Stefan Günther - Mölndal City/Gunnebo Castle

When Gunnebo Castle was completed in 1796, it was one of the country's most lavish mansions, with architecture and decoration inspired by ...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Madame de Sevigné in selection and translation - Arne Melberg

Madame de Sevigné (1626-1696) became famous during her lifetime as a letter writer. These were letters to her many friends who...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Marstrand Monastery - Thomas Bergstrand - Bohuslän Museum

In 2017, archaeologists from Bohuslän Museum conducted an investigation on Marstrand, Kungälv municipality, when remains of the city's medieval Franciscan monastery were found....

January 23, 2018

2017 - Crafts & design - one hundred years in Gothenburg - Gudrun Nyberg

The Röhsska Museum, Sweden's only museum dedicated to design, and the School of Design and Crafts (HDK) are two strong...

January 23, 2018

2017 - New edition of Snorri Sturluson's Norwegian King's Tales I-III - Gunnar D. Hansson

Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla is the most important prose work from the Nordic Middle Ages, alongside the so-called Icelandic sagas. In 2014 it was published...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Seffle Möbelfabrik - AB String-Seffle: a company monograph - Claes Åkerblom

Seffle Möbelfabrik was founded in 1909. A number of furniture makers had become unemployed in connection with the Great Strike, and found work by...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Public diplomacy and foreign information influence in Sweden 1719-72 - Erik Bodensten - Lund University

This research project is about how incipient democratization in several European states in the 18th century made a qualitatively new...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Neanderthals and fire: Routine or opportunistic users? - Johan Sterner - Lund University

When humans learned to control fire is a matter of debate in archaeology. It is an important question because, according to several researchers, fire control...

January 23, 2018

2017 - History of the Life Guards - Åke Öhrström - History of the Life Guards

On January 14, 1521, on Felix the Confessor's Day, Gustav Eriksson (Vasa) was elected by the people of the East and West Valleys as their chief...