Showing posts with label Stockholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stockholm. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Nobel's Legacy

For yesterday's outing in Stockholm we took the ship's shuttle bus into the city and ticked another item off our bucket list.
 
Since reading about the Nobel Prize Museum, https://www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/, I had been keen to pay a visit, yesterday was the day.
 
We alighted the ship's shuttle near the Opera House and made our way to the Museum that is housed in an old government building in the Old Town. We spent a few educative and enjoyable hours there. We were most impressed with the way the displays gave us an insight into the lives and minds of many Nobel Laureates. There were also dotted around interactive terminals that one could ask about recipients of the awards, their lives, countries and their subjects of expertise. 

Very impressive set of modern doors

After a few wrong turns we found the museum that is housed in a former government building

My first stop was an information kiosk whose contents one could search for Nobel Laureates by several filters and keywords. My search term was Australia.

 I was embarrassed to find that I had not heard of all these august Australians my query returned.

One of the Australian Laureates




People perusing the display cases containing that collection of those items. Each display case is related to a particular theme and contains items donated by laureates.

There was a section of the museum related to Nobel and his life. This shows an image of his laboratory.

This rotating carousel on the ceiling delivers biographical posters of the laureates via a track. Visitors can sit one of the benches in the rooms and read the biographies as they travel around the track above them.

A copy of the medal



When we arrived we made straight for the entrance without noticing the Museum's environment. After exiting we looked around and saw that it was in a lovely square behind the Copenhagen Cathedral and has as neighbours some beautiful old buildings

The Square outside the Museum




Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Thank for the music ABBA

Having previously been to most of the places offered on the ship's tours of Copenhagen we struck out on our own this morning.

I told Robert "I had a dream" so he made it happen yesterday. He took me back to the 70s and 80s in Stockholm with a visit to the ABBA Museum

We shared a taxi to the museum district with a couple of fellow passengers and found the line for the ABBA Museum. Thankfully I had pre-booked so we didn't have much of a wait to enter. 

These old ABBA fans highly recommend a tour to this site. We are still singing.

On the roof of the museum

We were lucky to get in.  Some fellow cruisers who went later couldn't get in as it was booked out.


Cabin where many songs were written

Recording studio

World tour program


Arrival - Album cover



Costumes


Arrival - Album cover

ABBA Souvenirs


I didn't know that Chess written was by ABBA members

I usually don't buy souvenirs but I purchased this cap to wear to the ABBA night on the ship.

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