June 3, 2018
Do you happen to be in Stockholm on a nice sunny day? Then, perhaps, you should skip Stockholm museums and enjoy one of the major peculiarities – green and clean outdoors. Stockholm has green areas larger than just parks all over the city, which is such a rare case for a capital. More than that you may enjoy the combination…
May 22, 2018
The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution of Israel, housing encyclopedic collections of works dating from prehistory to the present day in archaeology, the fine arts, and Jewish life. Since opening in 1965, the Museum has built a collection of half a million objects at permanent and temporary displays and it keeps upgrading. The museum is open for visitors…
May 11, 2018
Guides on the Internet usually recommend seeing Stockholm, Uppsala, and Abisko National Park in Sweden, but the more we travel here, the more we admire the number of other absolutely amazing attractions. Last weekend, we travelled from Stockholm to Gothenburg by car, and, by the recommendation of a colleague, visited several attractions on the way. We did not expect these…
May 1, 2018
Taltsy is similar to Open-Air Museum in Tallinn or Skansen in Stockholm. Taltsy is called architectural and ethnographic museum: it tells a about everyday life of Baikal region inhabitants via the display of Baikal architecture from indigenous huts to the estates of the 20th century.
April 11, 2018
As we have already written, many museums in Sweden do not have entrance fee. On the way to IKEA birthplace, Älmhult, we used this advantage again and visited the Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping. Here we spent more than three hours and had a lot of fun.
February 5, 2018
On January, 27 we spent one of the most wonderful days in Sweden, visiting Älmhult, the birthplace of Ikea. We later learned that on the same day Ikea founder, Ingvar Kamprad, died in his house in Älmhult. We dedicate this post to the entrepreneur of amazing personality and his genius company which has produced furniture gracing equally Stockholm Royal palace…