The Gothenburg city museum is located in the magnificent Swedish East India Company's office and warehouse building, built during the mid-18th century.The museum's exhibitions is telling the story of Gothenburg and covering over 1200 years of history. A few of the pictures I took while there (a lot of the exhibits have glass in front of them)
Viking age
The Äskekärrsskeppet is the only ship from the Viking era on display in Sweden. It is also the only Viking ship in the world with runic inscriptions.
Needles and thimbles - not changed too much over the last few hundred years
A modell of the Älvsborg fortress
The hall leading from the latter middle ages/early modern times
to the 18th century
Just a curiosity - chamber pots - one female and one male
The cupboard for the city key
The luxury items imported by the East India Company was among other things sugar
porcelain
Since this is first and foremost a craft blog - a few more sewing related items - these from the 1700ds
A few glimpses of the 19th Century:
The museum courtyard
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida
1 comment:
What an interesting tour...thanks for sharing :o)
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