Etikett: Göteborgs Stadsmuseum

  • Advent calendar Flap 5, the Stala Pickaxe

    Advent calendar Flap 5, the Stala Pickaxe

    Flap 6 Behind flap 6 in this year’s Advent calendar is the so-called Stala Pickaxe. It was found on the island of Orust in Bohuslän, Sweden and received its name from Stala parish, where it was discovered in 1857. In 1867 it was displayed at the World Exhibition in Paris, and a few years later…

  • The Cammin Chest

    The Cammin Chest

    This is a plaster of Paris copy of the Viking Age chest known as the Cammin Chest. The original was once located in Kungälv/Kongahälla on the west coast of what is now Sweden. In 1131 it was stolen in a raid by the Vends and it was later housed in a monastery in Cammin in…