Life in Sweden: Nordic Museum

After lots of time spent shopping the last few weekends and being sick, Ellie was ready to do something fun. She asked to go to a museum. We decided on the Nordic museum. It was originally founded on the principle that it would house items from all of the Nordic countries but currently focuses only on Sweden. The building itself is amazing. It is huge with lots of marble and four story columns in the grand hall. The rotating exhibit was about the history of plastics. One floor focused on living spaces and furniture. Ellie loved seeing the scale models of rooms. She thought of them as doll houses. There were also exhibits that focused on tableware and meal time traditions, fabric, and clothing. Her favorite exhibit by far was of dollhouses from the last two hundred years. In the clothing exhibit, there was a movie showing a rich woman, a rich man and a peasant woman getting dresses. She was fascinated by the different clothing and the different way of dressing (especially using a ribbon to tie stockings up). She watched the whole 25 minute movie and would have watched it again. There was so much to see that we didn’t see all the areas and I know we missed ½ of what we walked through. I can’t wait to go back again.