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January 27, 2015

2014 - Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2015 - Staffan Normark - Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Kungl. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences wants to show Sweden's teachers in mathematics and science their appreciation, and at the same time draw society's attention to...

January 27, 2015

2014 - The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A palace complex from 1200 BC - Peter Fischer - University of Gothenburg

Excavations at the Bronze Age site of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus—supported by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation—have yielded exceptional finds from the period 1600–1100...

January 27, 2015

2014 - Overview of the Gothenburg Museum of Art - English edition - Kristoffer Arvidsson - Gothenburg Museum of Art

In February 2014, the book *The Collection: Gothenburg Museum of Art* was published with support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. The book, which comprises 497...

January 27, 2015

2014 - Collections and History of the Röhsska Museum - Ritwa Herjulfsdotter - Röhsska museet

There is a lack of research and compiled knowledge about the development of the Röhsska Museum and the creation of the collections, which is regrettable as it...

January 27, 2015

2014 - The Swedish History Days 2015 - Dag Klackenberg - The Swedish History Days

The overall aim of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history,...

January 27, 2015

2014 - Hump on the bra 2 - in-depth practical studies and reconstructions - Annika Larsson - Uppsala University, Sweden

In 2008, research work began on Viking Age women's costumes. It was established at an early stage that the oval buckles, so specific to the female burial costume,...

January 27, 2015

2014 - The Iron Age population of Öland: bioarchaeological studies of migration, diet and demography - Helene Wilhelmson - Lund University

The thesis project aims to study the Iron Age population of Öland based on the graves, to shed light on the structure and dynamics of society. Öland had...

January 27, 2015

2014 - The farm Sagared in Kållered - with connection to the East India Company - Staffan Bjerrhede - Kållereds hembygdsförening

Kållereds Hembygdsförening has an extensive archive consisting of documents and photos. This material has during spring 2014 been listed with...

January 27, 2015

2014 - Transdisciplinary dialogues - Nils-Göran Areskoug

The aim of this network of interdisciplinary dialogues is to create an infrastructure for a strategic observatory and meeting place...

January 27, 2015

2014 - The Age of Gold and the Finnestorp Sacrificial Site - Bengt Nordqvist - Archaeology 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 27, 2015

2014 - Carl Johan Cronstedt, architect and organizer - a man of his time - Linnéa Rollenhagen Tilly

Printing of a book about the activities and collections of the superintendent Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709-1777). Count Carl Johan Cronstedt is mentioned in a...

January 27, 2015

2014 - Louis Jean Desprez, ceiling painting "Apollo the Sun God" - Leif Wadell - Freemasonry in Gothenburg

The ceiling painting is irreplaceable and unique to Gothenburg, and if it were left to undergo further degradation, it would be a culturally and historically valuable...