Museum of Spirits
The Museum of Spirits (Template:Lang-sv) is situated on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. The museum has permanent and temporary exhibitions related to the drinking culture of Sweden. The museum also functions as an art gallery, as it houses and displays the Absolut Art Collection.
The museum houses three exhibition venues, including the permanent, interactive exhibition Sweden: Spirits of a Nation (Spritlandet Sverige).
The Museum of Spirits was opened as the Wine & Spirit Historical Museum in the Grönstedtska palace, in Vasastaden, Stockholm, in 1967, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the state-owned company AB Vin & Sprit.
List of temporary exhibitions
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- 2017, Rocky at the Museum of Spirits, comic artist Martin Kellerman constructed four spaces representing rooms and places frequently used in his self-biographical comic strip Rocky.[1]
- 2017-18, Under the Surface - Bertil Vallien, on the work of innovative glassmaker Bertil Vallien
- 2017-18, Champagne!
Absolut Art Collection
The Absolut Art Collection consists of work created between 1985 and 2004. It contains nearly 900 artworks - paintings, graphic art, photography, furniture, fashion and handicrafts - by 600 artists and designers, all in some way portraying the Absolut Vodka bottle.
The first piece commissioned was Andy Warhol’s Absolut Warhol, in 1986. Other commissions went to, for example, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Damien Hirst, Tom Ford, Louise Bourgeois, Ola Billgren, Dan Wolgers and Linn Fernström.
See also
"Payday evening — vote yes!"; A poster of a drunk husband in front of his weeping wife and children, encouraging voters to vote for prohibition (left)
- Alcoholic drinks in Sweden
- Bratt System
- Gothenburg Public House System
- Snapsvisa
- Swedish prohibition referendum, 1922
- Systembolaget
- Swedish temperance movements
- Vodka belt
References
- ^ "Karsten Thurfjell om "Rocky på Spritmuseum"" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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