excentricity

On a sunday I visited a peculiar museum with Anastacia : we got lucky with a english guided tour and so got to hear about all the old stories...

The Hallwylska museum is in fact a old house built around 1900 with unlimited budget by a very rich and excentric swedish couple. The woman actually loved to accumulate objets from everywhere : chinese cups, armor, crossbows, teapots, jewelry ( and even a bracelet made with her daughter
babytheeth...) .

She had decided very early on that her house would become a museum ans so she hired 5 people for several years. Their job was to write down a detailed description of every object in the house, from the paintings to the forks... This became 78 volumes of about 7 cm thick...

Very fun "museum" !


On the first picture you can
see our guide in his "disguise"

The second one shows a hole
in the wall close to the
high ceiling.Behind it was
a small room where
a small orchestra
played for the couple
and the woman's lady
companion at dinner.
At least one of them
fainted every time...