Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was born in 1898 in a soldier’s cottage in the village of Moshult, Småland. Vilhelm Moberg grew up in Småland, an area known at the time for being poor and having meager arable land. This experience gave him insights into economic but also cultural poverty due to the people of the area being deeply religious.
The Swedish Roots exhibition gives a glimpse of several different emigrant destinies. Some are well-known, and some are lesser known.
The Swedish emigration to America is the largest population migration in Swedish history. Between the years 1830–1930, 1.3 million Swedes moved to America. Almost a fifth of the then-Swedish population made the long and sometimes demanding journey across the Atlantic to create a better life in the new country.
Through the Swedish Glass Academy, the Swedish Glass Museum has accepted a generous donation from 70 artists, artisans, and designers expressing themselves in glass. This fantastic donation has given the Swedish Glass Museum the unique opportunity to present the complete development of the studio glass movement from 1968 onwards.
One of the museum’s more spectacular glass collections contains work from the French glass artist René Lalique (1860-1945).
Traces of pre-history are found all around us in the landscape. Sometimes well visible and marked with signs, and sometimes hidden in the ground beneath our feet.
