Starting today, the Swedish National Heritage Board invites you to enjoy a choice of photographs by the Swedish botanist and landscape historian Mårten Sjöbeck, which we will upload to a new picture set on Flickr Commons during spring. The images, which are from the 1920s to about 1960, show landscapes and cultural environments, towns, buildings […]

Did you, your parents or grandparents ever send or receive a postcard from Sweden before the 1970s? If so, that postcard might very well have been produced by the Almquist & Cöster Company; one of the major postcard companies in Sweden, founded in the 1920s by the photographer Salfon Almquist and the technician Rudolph Cöster […]

We are proud to tell that the photographs of the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons now have been viewed more than three million times. This striking number was reached and passed this week and is surely worthy of some attention. Our participation on The Commons on Flickr has allowed so many people from […]

After nearly four rewarding years on Flickr Commons with more than 1100 uploaded photographs will the Swedish National Heritage Board now show some samples of another kind of images, in a new picture set called “Drawings, watercolours, prints“. The Library of the Swedish National Heritage Board (Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek) and the Board’s public archives hold thousands […]

Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. A popular image from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown Five years ago, on the 16th of January, 2008 The Commons was launched as a part of  Flickr, the international website for photo sharing with millions of viewers and users. The initiator of The Commons was the Library […]

Europeana är platsen där du kan dyka ner i hela Europas kulturarv. Och det var just det som många av Europas kulturministrar och andra företrädare gjorde under ett event i Bryssel på Europadagen den 9 maj. De hade fått välja ut ett favoritföremål från sitt land som finns presenterat i Europeana och sedan berätta om […]

Berit Wallenberg and archaeologists Söderberg and Althin at an excavation in Nälsta, Uppland, Sweden, in May 1930. Photo: Unknown Berit Wallenberg (1902-1995) was a Swedish archaeologist and art historian. She began photographing as a teenager, and brought her camera on the many travels she made in Sweden and abroad, often on her own and under […]

Remix Photo by Maja Larsson (CC by-nc-sa). Original photos by unknown photographer (Swedish National Heritage Board) and by Dolan Halbrook. (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr, with links to the originals.) On March 17th, the Swedish National Heritage Board celebrates three rewarding and exciting years on The Commons on Flickr, […]

Raoul Wallenberg as a senior high school graduate in May 1930, together with his mother Maj von Dardel. Photo: Berit Wallenberg The 17th of January 2012 was the start of the Raoul Wallenberg Year, celebrated in memory of the Swedish businessman, architect and diplomat, born in Stockholm on August 4th, 1912. Raoul Wallenberg saved the […]