Continuing my account of my holiday in Sweden with a virtual tour of the Uppsala University Museum.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the next installment of posts about my recent holiday in Sweden. This post picks up where my previous one left off, heading into this building:
The outside of the University Museum
INSIDE THE MUSEUM
The Uppsala University Museum (students get in free), also known as the Gustavianum is housed in the oldest university building in Sweden. If you approach the museum as I did and start at the bottom and work your way up, the first exhibits you encounter are from the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans:
This object sits in the entrance hall.
It is a very minor quibble, but the red background is too strong a colour and therefore detracts somewhat from the coins themselves. Having produced images of a very large number of coins I have arrived at the conclusion that a white background, so that all the eye sees in the picture is the coin or set of coins is best.
The next two floors are taken up with items of various kinds from the more recent past…
The world’s first commercially successful portable computer – our ideas of portability have changed somewhat since then, as has the storage capacity of such machines!
This picture and the next combined to form
This picture
After these treasures it was time to see the inside of the dome – a perfectly preserved anatomy theatre…
Students would have stood in rows around the room, while the corpse that was being anatomised would be spread out on the table.
The last exhibits that I saw were those relating to the Vikings…
As well as my title piece and accompanying photographs I have some cracking links to share with you.
A DULL GREY SATURDAY
In a classic application of Murphy’s Law today is dull and grey, immediately following several bright sunny work days. Not that unappealing weather meant that there was nothing to photograph – after being dry for some time the fountain in The Walks had water in it and was functioning as it should…
Just beyond that was a “Trivial Pursuit” type arrangement of flower beds, one half of which I captured for posterity…
The squirrels were not in the least deterred by filthy grey skies either…
The ducks and moorhens were enjoying the waters of the upper Millfleet as it flows through the parkland…
The younger generation were also in evidence out on the water…
Arriving at the river bank by way of Hardings Pits I took a shot looking towards the town…
Walking past the anti-flood wall near old Boal Quay I was gratified to spot this blackbird at quite close quarters…
My last shot was taken at the jetty now in its second summer of service, and hosting a single boat today…
LINKS
TWO AUTISM RELATED LINKS
I found this shocking story of institutionalized abuse (I can call it nothing else), by way of twitter and I have already made contact with the author and subject of the story, Jennifer Msumba who posted it on her blog Here is an infographic for you…
The petition calling on Playmobil to produce toys that show disabled people in a positive light has succeeded in persuading them, after gaining more than 50,000 signatures. As well as celebrating, the organisers are using this as a springboard for tackling their next target, Lego. To view, sign and share this new petition please follow this link.
Patheos, who feature regularly in the links section of this blog, are here again, this time with a report on a particularly egregious piece of legislation which will cause the adoption rate in the state of Michigan to plummet.
My next and penultimate link is to a piece from handandmouse which combines slamming George Osborne with arguing cogently for Jeremy Corbyn to be on the ballot paper for the Labour leadership election.
To end this section here is a link to a piece in the Lynn News about how the town will be celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
PHOTOS AND AN AFTERWORD
AFTERWORD
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Here are a few random pics that I choose to share…
Window display at the Salvation Army shop in Fakenham.A close up of one the pieces featured in the first picture.
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