Sig Nordal

Sweden – Stockholm – Djurgärden – Galärvarvskyrkogården (Cemetery) & Nordiska Museet Galärkyrkogården (Galley Shipyard Cemetery). Contains the memorial of the M/S Estonia (a Baltic Sea cruise ferry lost in 1994), as well as graves of prominent Swedes such as Stikkan Anderson (co-founder of ABBA, and founder of the Polar Music Award) On Galärkyrkogården are approximately 1300 graves in an area of ​​approximately 0.9 hectares. The area also contains a chapel with 15 seats, a memorial and a bell tower surrounded by a kyrkogårdsmur. Wall borgkiknande portal was designed by the architect Fredrik Blom. The first burial took place in 1742. Nordiska Museet was originally (1873) called the Scandinavian Ethnographic Collection (Skandinavisk-etnografiska samlingen), from 1880 the Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museum, now Nordiska must). The present building, the design of Isak Gustaf Clason, was completed in 1907. Originally, it was intended to be a national monument housing the material inheritance of the nation. It was, however, only half-completed for the Stockholm Exposition 1897, and it never was completed to the extent originally planned, three times the actual size. It takes its style from Dutch-influenced Danish Renaissance architecture rather than any specifically Swedish historical models. The core of the “cathedralesque” building is taken up by a huge main hall passing through all the stories up to the roof and dominated by the enormous sculpture of King Gustav Vasa, the Swedish so called founder-king. For the construction, brick and granite was used for the walls, while concrete was used for the roof
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