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January 23, 2018

2017 - The Age of Gold and the Finnestorp Sacrificial Site - Bengt Nordqvist - Archaeology of the Finnestorp Sacrificial Site

During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp victim site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category...

January 23, 2018

2017 - Riders in Bohuslän - J.O. Rune Hasslöf - Bohuslän Defense Museum

The project "Riders in Bohuslän" deals with the period 1685 ̶ 1727 and complements documents previously published by the Bohuslän Defense Museum. The research, which has been ongoing for ...

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...