Post by Grubb. Late this morning we walked to the Malmo Art Museum located inside the Malmo Castle, a Renaissance fortress of thick brick surrounded by a moat in the center of the old city. Their current collection of Swedish artwork took us from the late sixteenth century to the present day. The colorful modern pieces dispelled…
Sometimes a torso is an apartment building
An apartment complex built in 2005 in Malmo, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Called “Turning Torso”, sometimes called “Twisted Torso”.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Kardemummabullar & cappucino
The kardemummabullar pastry of soft sweet dough delicately dusted with cardamom called out for a smooth cappuccino. This palate pleasing combination was appreciated in a park cafe with the dulcet singsong of Swedish accents in the background.
The Bishop and Martin Luther
These busts were seen offsetting each other at the entrance to a university building in Lund. Neither one is in a joking mood.
Two old Swedes
My aunt Ruth married Roger Sutherland, son of a Swedish Minnesota farmer, who had a job working for the Feds in the Department of Agriculture. They had four daughters, blond, athletic, and self-assured. My friends loved it when my “Swedish cousins” came to visit. At family get togethers, my father would argue with Roger who had the best…
What a find in Lund
Post by Ella. The Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art. I’ve never seen anything like it. All the work that goes into creating public art: the sketches, models, schematics, the prep work, where does it all end up? Some brilliant person at Lund University had the idea to collect all these works….
Malmo fantasy explained
Post by Grubb. The fantasy world that I thought would be Malmo actually turns out to be an open-air museum in Lund called the Kuturen in Lund. Stretching over two blocks, buildings replicating structures that Scandinavians have lived in since the Middle Ages are laid out in a village format and open for inspection. It was like…
Crazy about that crypt
Post by Grubb Along with graveyards, Ella and I enjoy the quiet seclusion of a good crypt. The Lund Cathedral, an early 12th century Nordic monument to Romanesque architecture, has a crypt made up of stone arches, carved sarcophagi, and several like “the giant Finn and his wife.” Legend has it that the giant helped build the…
Lundsfan
Post by Grubb. I didn’t know what expect from Lund, a university town northeast of Malmo, about thirty minutes by train. But after spending most of the day there, I’m a definitely a Lundsfan. The university is over 400 years old, so it has the cloistered charm of a scholarly retreat where the ponds are quiet and…