stockholm sculpture

A small sampling of public art in Stockholm. I just spent a stupid amount of time trying to locate where most of these are in the city.

Let's start with the most elaborate street sign evar. The stone that the central figure is holding reads "Drottninggatan" (Queen Street) on one side, "Kungsgatan" (King Street) on the other side, and in the center, something like "QV Vinklehaken", where a vinklehake is a type of mason's square. (Apologies for the quality of the phone-cam pic. I was walking from the train station to my hotel, and I should have busted out the good camera right then and there.)


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stockholm "window"

This is the first time I've stayed in a hotel room that had an artist's statement.

Hotel Birger Jarl has 6 interior "cabin rooms", which are discounted for being small and not having windows. Fine with me, I'm cheap, plus it meant I wasn't woken up at 3am by the summer sun. (Instead, I woke up at 3am in complete darkness, because I couldn't sleep.) So they hung some large photos and a large mirror to make the room seem bigger.

stockholm run-about

Okay, to heck with theme posts, let's just get this all out there. Here are a few things I saw on my early morning run. Since these are phone-cam pics, the file names contain timestamps, if you're curious about what 5am looks like vs 6:30am.

Nordiska Museet, Djurgården island.


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Someone dumped a large bag of Wham candies in interesting drifts.