Saturday, February 23

1060 km and a Vernissage

530 km x 2 during 6 hours x 2 car-driving, 2 nights in a hotel bed, italian food, strolling up and down streets, over bridges, up and down shopping escalators, subway traveling = a short visit to Stockholm, Sweden.
The purpose?
The spectacular vernissage of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864 - 1901) at Nationalmuseum.In addition we had for the first time the chance to visit an exhibition of Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) at Moderna Museet.
Moderna museet is located at Skeppsholmen and you have to cross a bridge to arrive. From the bridge you have a great look at the the old city with the Royal Castle at Skeppsbron. A journey through the subway system on the way to the museums, gives you possibilities to see underground art.
This is from Kungstregården station
Outside Moderna Museet a lot of fantastic sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (October 29, 1930–May 22, 2002) can be seen.Traveling back to Oslo, we have the following facts to share.
Petrol is 17% cheaper in Sweden, and good wine 50% cheaper at Systembolaget.
However, we have the bridge of Leonardo da Vinci at Ås outside Oslo made by the Norwegian artist Vebjørn Sand At the end and you still is interested in my Stockholm posting, I have a question to you, and perhaps mostly directed to my swedish visitors. What is or symbolizes this figure at the entrance of Skepsholmen. It is written "Skeppsholm Førsamling" under the roof, and I may have read somewhere that many poor and sick children lived at Skeppsholmen years ago. Please enlighten me.

5 comments:

Anne said...

Fin tur du har hatt !!

Mye spennende og fine opplevelser, god mat og avveksling fra hverdagen.
En fin by da, det skal være sagt. Massiv fin arkitektur og masse å se.

God helg til deg og fruen.

Pernille said...

Så fin tur du har hatt! Og masse flott har du sett som du deler med oss:)
Har alltid hatt lyst til å reise til Stockholm, men det nærmeste jeg har vært er 5 km fra Stockholms bykjerne. Da var jeg sur da jeg måtte reise videre uten å fått sett byen. Hi hi hi. Men neste gang!!!!
Jo husene og fargene på Moholmen kan minne om Røros. Bare Moholmen er et mye mindre område:)Og ja, det kan minne litt om enkelte av Harald Sohlbergs bilder. Trivelige steder begge to til å rusle rundt i!
Ha en flott søndag i hovedstaden:)

Berit T said...

Her har du hatt flotte opplevelser, kunne tenkt å vært der ja....
Veldig greitt med blogging ,vi får så mange gode tips, Takk skal du ha.
Fortsatt god søndag.

GundaM said...

Denne figuren nederst minner meg om den i Ringenes herre...Gollum eller hva nå det var den het;)

Daniel Chérouvrier said...

Stockholm is a very nice city.