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 Carl
Milles has sculptured the Poseidon-statue in Gothenburg, the
Gustaf Vasa-statue at the Nordiska museet, the Orfeus group
outside the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Folke Filbyter-scupture
in Linköping. The latter could be found on a stamp from
1975, celebrating that he would have become a hundred years
old that year. Millesgården became his last home and is
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| National
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| The National Musuem in Stockholm is just
a few munites walk away from Skansen, Vasa and Gröna
Lund. Here you can some os Swedens best exhibitions. |
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| To go into the museum is free but some
of the exhibitions cost to see, but the general exhibition
is FREE. |
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| Nobel Museum |
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 Alfred
Nobel, a descendant of the 17th century scientist, Olaus Rudbeck
(1630-1702), was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872).
Born in Stockholm, he went with his family at an early age to
St. Petersburg, where his father (who had invented modern plywood)
started a "torpedo" works. In 1859 this was left to
the care of the second son, Ludvig Emmanuel (1831-1888), by
whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Sweden
with his father after the bankruptcy of their family business,
devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to
the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine (discovered in
1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow-students under Théophile-Jules
Pelouze at the University of Torino). Several explosions were
reported at their family-owned factory in Heleneborg, and a
disastrous one in 1864 killed Alfred's younger brother Emil
and several other workers. |
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| Olle Olsson Hagalund |
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| Olle Olsson is best know as "Hagalund"
becuse this was where he was born and lived his whole life.
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| Olle Olsson was born and lived in the house
his father had built in the "Shanty town" of Hagalund
in Solna just 5km north of Stockholm. Most of Olssons painting
are from his life in and around Hagalund |
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| Waldemarsudde |
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| Porträtt av prins Eugen. Oscar Björck |
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| The scenic home of the Swedish Prince
Eugen is situated close to central Stockholm at Södra
Djurgården... |
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