Stockholm

SUNRISE IN ESKILSTUNA, SWEDEN 4:00 AM

This is the view from our third floor window of the Comfort Inn in Eskilstuna at 4:00 AM.

I am amazed, once again, at the differences in other countries of personal responsibility. Our window spans the whole wall and tilts out...no bars and no screens.  Gee, people are actually supposed to figure out, on their own, that they shouldn't lean too far out the window.

Amazing!!!!

Love, my companion, and I drive to Stockholm to visit the Moderna Museet; Swedish for Modern Art Museum. The museum is on Skeppsholmen Island in Stockholm. 

We also visit The Vasa Museet on the island of Djurgarden.

We decided to find a parking garage and walk to the ferry. The drive into Stockholm was easy. I guess driving in Phoenix is good training for driving in this country. Our Swedish friends were shocked that we didn't take the train from Eskilstuna...but I needed to charge my phone/camera.

We took pictures of the car, etc., because we discovered, not being able to read Swedish, that we had actually parked in a private parking garage. We were afraid we wouldn't be able to find our way back and then we'd be telling Peter that the Audi was somewhere underground in Stockholm. Ha!

I wasn't sure I would recognize the car.

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Swedish Baroque architecture. We are walking to the ferry through the heart of Stockholm.

We check out the interior.

Solid bronze castings.

 Marquetry inlaid door.

Detail from outside.

This building now houses a restaurant on the ground floor. One of the few signs we saw in English. This wouldn't be unusual, except almost without exception, Swedes speak fluent English. 

We are still walking...

Almost there...

Finally, on our way.

One of many beautifully restored boats still in use today.

Individuals live on these historic boats.

The building in the foreground is The Vasa Museet on the island of Djurgrden. The building houses the Vasa 64 gun warship, sunk in 1628 and  raised from the floor of the ocean nearly intact in 1961.

Detail

Onward to the island of Skeppsholmen and the Moderna Museet.

We are lucky and arrive to view a show of iconic Pop Art. The painting in the background is by Roy Lichtenstein and furniture in the foreground Charles and Ray Eames, as well as others I can't recall.

Andy Warhol silkscreen in the background with giant desk lamp in the foreground. The show included 80 works of Pop Art, 1950 - 1960, by artists such as Peter Blake, Judy Chicago, Öyvind Fahlström, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol shown together with design objects by Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Verner Panton, Carla Scolari, Ettore Sottsass, Studio 65, Studio DA, Superstudio and others.

Roy Lichtenstein

Moving on to the permanent collection. Some artists I remember, but others I did not know, but loved their work.

Robert Raushenberg

SHE

 A Cathedral, consisting of a gigantic plump women lying down; the public could walk into her womb and enter a world of experiences. The sculptor was Niki de Saint Phalle.

Niki de Saint Phalle

Iranian artist Tala Madani

Picasso

Matisse

Brancusi

Edvard Munch

I am going to post this now because the final exhibition we saw at the Moderna Museet was a retrospective show by the designer Jean Paul Gaultier...and I took a lot of photos!

Jean Paul Gaultier

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