The Maritime Museum & Aquarium

The Maritime Museum and Aquarium is filled with all manner of information on nautical life and the development of Gothenburg as port along with fairly extensive ground floor aquarium. Currently being held on the first floor is an exhibition of maritime painting entitled Meet The Horizon, with the text pieces written by Sigvard Olsson, an artist and former sailor and Petter Askergen, an rap artist and entrepreneur, who seems an odd choice for such a project based on that description. There is some fascinating information in the text pieces on the competing Black Ball Lines and the reality of naval battles compared to their depiction in paintings.

The photographs below were all taken in the aquarium.

Let there be Light

Photographed in the Aermuseum, Gothenburg.

Aeroseum, Gothenburg

Located around 15 minutes drive from Gothenburg (it takes a while longer to get there by bus - the 34 stops there once an hour), the Aeroseum is a rather special place. You disembark at a crossroads with the only visible landmark being this:


 
A ten minute walk brings you to the ticket office and then, following the road around a corner, you find this entraceway.


 
And it's down into the tunnel you go:




Just around the corner you find a door, which stepping through bring you to...


 
... a tunnel full of aircraft leading downwards into the earth! The Aerseum is housed  in a declassified Swedish Air Force underground bunker, carved from solid rock 30 metres below ground and built during the Cold War.




Along the way down you will find background information of the reasons behind the bunkers construction, including plenty of photographs detailing its construction.




The information pages are a might excitable though.




Here's a few more of vehicles along the entry tunnel.


 It's through the next metal door that you find the bunker itself. It's a huge complex, filled with planes, helicopters, and all sorts of other equipment from across the history of aviation.




There's also a couple of full-size simulators to have a little fly around in.




You can even sit in a number of cockpits (as some bloke is demonstrating below) and even climb through the vents of one plane, though it is a bit of a tight squeeze.


 

All in all, I highly recomend you visit the place if you're ever visiting Gothenburg.

Limousines

.As I was taking this photograph a woman who was walking by complained that the limousines were Saab's, not Volvo's. Swedish people sure do love their Volvo's.

Gothenburg Street Art

Here's a selection of street art photographed in and around the city, with the first four were all taken in the same location. I especially like the flowers in the third photograph - Anyone fancy doing something similar around Manchester?

Gothenburg Christmas Lights

It's been an extremely busy week for me and as a result I haven't had much in the way of time to write about my recent trip to Gothenburg. So here's the first in a series of posts I have lined up, with the rest appearing sometime next week. Hopefully.