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Published: August 6th 2007
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Going to the museum
This is how we went to the museum. Cool way to ride a bicycle, huh? In May mom and dad brought us to Lidingö outside Stockholm to see
Millesgården, a museum over the famous sculptor
Carl Milles. Mom and dad were talking about him like he was some sort of genius. Mom said "He has created many of the finest statues we have in Sweden" and dad said "He is famous all over the world and we should be proud that he was born here in Sweden". Well, it was a nice day so why not go for a ride we thought. And besides, we had nothing else to do. Travelling with mom and dad is always fun even though museums aren't our biggest favourite.
We travelled to the museum using bicycles. Stockholm isn't very big and you can visit most of the town using non-motorised vehicles. We paid entrance fee and went in. Well mum and dad paid entrance fee. As usual cuddly toys could enter the museum free of charge. It's good to be a toy!
We liked the museum a lot. It is perched on a cliff overlooking the eastern parts of Stockholm. The views were astonishing. The museum was better than we expected. It was not so much a museum actually,
Wild boar
What a nice statue. It is like Carl Milles made it so we could sit on it more an art gallery. Art can be fun sometimes. Especially in this gallery it was fun because we were allowed to sit on the statues.
We looked at the statues and they were all very nice. There were statues of wild boars, of a wolf feeding milk to children, of a man standing on a hand and many more. Carl Milles really was a talented sculptor.
But our favorite was one of
Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin is one of our greatest heroes. Sven Hedin was a well known traveller and adventurer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since we are also great travellers and adventurers we of course have read many of his travel stories. We have read them in books, can you believe it? Sven Hedin actually never had his own blogg. It is hard to believe how out of date he was... But we have to admit that he was a great traveller. He did his most important travels in China, a country we have travelled in and that we like very much.
When we read his books we notice something strange. For some reason they were constantly hungry when they were travelling. When
Wolf feeding kids
Interesting statue. Also good to sit on. they crossed the Taklamakan Desert they were so hungry they almost starved to death. When they crossed Tibet they were hungry for weeks because they had run out of food. And when they were in the Himalayas they were also starving. What we can't understand is why they didn't go to a restaurant if they were so hungry. There are restaurants everywhere in China. We know, we have been there. All you have to do is go into a restaurant and order what you want to eat. It is very simple. We were never hungry when we were in China. In one of his books Sven Hedin even writes that they once had to kill and eat one of the camels they had brought on the trip. That is so stupid! If you bring a pet, like a camel, on a trip you don't kill and eat it. You just don't! It would be like we would kill mom and dad and eat them. The thought is ridiculous!
But still Sven Hedin is a hero, a bit stupid but a hero. So after the visit we decided to go and pay him tribute. His grave is here in Stockholm
Nice statue
This is a nice statue. We liked it a lot. and we went to see it after we had seen the statue of him on Millesgården. By the way, Sven Hedin was the last person in Sweden to have been awarded a knighthood. He was a traveller without a blogg and was awarded a knighthood. We are travellers with a blogg. We should be awarded two knighthoods.
When we were at Millesgården and looked more carefully at the statues we started to wonder if Carl Milles really was such a genius as mom and dad said he was. Well the statues were nice enough but one looked very familiar...
Jean-Claude is writing: Emma has never lived in Gothenburg but I have. In one end of one of the most important streets in Gothenburg, Kungsportsavenyn, is a statue of Poseidon that looks very much like the Poseidon statue at Millesgården. It seems to us like Carl Milles must have run out of ideas one day and he simply copied the statue in Gothenburg. I guess he thought he would get away with that. Maybe he thought nobody from Gothenburg would ever come to his museum and expose his little secret. We pointed it out to mum and dad but
Fun statue
This is a fun statue. Carl Milles had a sense of humour they just said that we should stop being silly and enjoy the statues for their beauty. But we don't give up that easily. We are going to get proof and when we have it we are going to expose Carl Milles on the Internet! We think this is going to make us famous.
Our chance to find proof against Carl Milles came sooner than we could hope for. Dad brought us to Gothenburg only two weeks later. Dad was visiting Gothenburg because he was going to run the Gothenburg Half Marathon. Before he started we went to Götaplatsen at Kungsportsavenyn and had a look at the statue. You can look for yourselves on the photos - the Carl Milles statue in Stockholm is definitely a copy of the one in Gothenburg. Dad says the one in Stockholm is a replica of the one in Gothenburg. We don't care if it is a replica or not. Carl Milles has copied the famous statue in Gothenburg and claims he has made it. That makes him a fraud in our eyes!
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/Translation from Swedish) Zakje & friends
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Museums can be good!
Hi! Very nice blog entry, this one, too. But museums are not that bad! At least not all of them! Sallad says that if you ever go to Cairo, where he's from, you should go to the Egyptian museum, they have everything (or so he says). I prefer Maritime museums, because there you have large boats. It would of course be better to have them at home, but Rabbit (a.k.a. Reskaninen) says we don't have enough space. So no I'm going to tell her to bring us to Millesgården. We also want to ride a boar!! And you know, musicians these days make cover songs of songs they like, so maybe Milles did a cover statue of Poseidon? Except it's very much alike, but we've heard that some musicians make cover songs that sound almost exactly like thee original one, so maybe that's the case here as well. Take care!