Malmo
Malmo City Gallery
1 August 2018
If you have been reading my latest posts here, you will know that in May we enjoyed a rather lovely city break in Copenhagen and Malmo.
Just around the corner from the rather lovely Malmo city museum is a gallery space housed in a rather austere building that has had a bit of a checker-ed past - it has been a palace and a prison.
When we were in Malmo there was an exhibition about nuclear technology - 'Perpetual Uncertainty - art and radioactivity' a contemporary perspective on living in a society with nuclear technology.
One gallery was hung with these crystal chandeliers I am not sure of the technology but they were 'glow in the dark'. They hung like eerie jelly fish.
Another gallery was showing a brilliant little documentary on the role Sweden played in discovering the Chernobyl disaster.
And then one gallery had these stunning 'banners'.
They used old screens and stunning floral fabrics. You might have spotted a William Morris fabric on at least one of the screens.
And then tea and refreshment in a very architectural garden space.
Malmo - city break
30 July 2018
I enjoyed Copenhagen but I really loved Malmo.
It is so accessible from Copenhagen it has almost become a suburb of it's more famous neighbour (though of course, of late Scandi noir drama 'The Bridge' has really put it on the map).
If you arrive by train, even the station is impressive.
Great public art.
Fantastic modern cityscapes.
And older, charming streetscapes.
With some quirky characters.
If you find yourself in Malmo, the city museum is worth a visit.
These were old fishermen's huts on the approach.
Of course, because a very well known retailer has it's head quarters not far from Malmo, there was a lot of domestic design celebrated in the city museum.
And the most bonkers, life style, very spooky, automated jazz band!
Unbelievably, this jazz band was made in England! I have never seen anything like it before, but apparently they were popular with the larger department stores. They would have been used as novelty window displays.
Sadly, the day we were there it wasn't working. The engineer had been called (which did amuse me - there is such a s thing as a 'life size spooky jazz band' engineer!)
Moving on, this eclectic museum had a submarine!
Much fun, pretending to be submariners. In reality, life for them must have been hell.
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