{"id":38669,"date":"2024-03-27T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=38669"},"modified":"2024-08-17T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T12:36:49","slug":"sweden-technology-museum-viewing-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sweden-technology-museum-viewing-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden \/ Technology Museum \/ Viewing-Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken 27 – 28 March 2024, posted online 17 August 2024. It’s my father-in-law’s birthday, which means the weather will be good!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the staples of our city-trips, is visiting technology museums<\/a>. We’d visited the same museum eight years before<\/a>, but it had changed a whole lot in the intervening years. There was really just one area that I recognized!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day we explored a bit around where we were staying, which included visiting a “viewing-farm”<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 27 March 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Outside the Museum of Technology in Stockholm, as we were leaving after a good visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The day began with a look out the windows at the stereotypical Swedish houses surrounding our AirBnb. I later learned that you are not free to paint your house in just any color, your neighbors may have a say, particularly in close quarters, and you need to get permission to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The car was doing fine, but with driving in our future, I decided to top it off with a bit of e-juice at the local mall. This one accepted a credit card entered at a website, no app required, but the parking garage needed a payment app.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Mom tagged along, and showed me the “fancy” cafe in the mall. We both had the avocado and hummus on rye bread, it was quite nice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Back at home base, about to head to the city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Trees you just don’t find in Iceland. This was close<\/a> to KTH<\/a>, the Royal Institute of Technology<\/a>. Anna only has one year left of her BS studies in bio\/health-engineering, but to become an engineer in Iceland (it’s a job title protected by law here) you need to finish a MS degree. We’re encouraging her to do her master’s abroad, and the Nordic countries are likely to be her destination. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I can’t remember if Google maps led us astray, or if I misread the map, but we found ourselves outside the US Embassy, which has closed the end of the street it’s on, creating a cul-de-sac. So, we we had to make an undignified u-turn, and marveled at the very sizeable security measures around the embassy. I guess it makes the weirdly fortified appearance in Iceland look tame in comparison?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The long way around to the Museum of Technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We had to go the long-way-around the area, and saw this building in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Driving past the US embassy again, rolling our eyes (politely) at the roadblock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Finally, we made it to the technology museum<\/a>, and I got to install yet-another-parking-payment-app.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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First order of business was to feed Emma, who found herself starving. The other three gallivanted off to somewhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Inside the mining display. It was bizarre to see it, after seeing much the same, but in action, in Idaho<\/a> a couple of years before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Legs going up stairs. Miners don’t need torsos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Big wheel being big. Emma was at least 170 cm there (5 feet 7 inches).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Therein lies silver!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Newton’s cradle<\/a> is always fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Multiple me-s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Live posture tracker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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By an AI-designed, and machined sculpture. The AI network had been trained on work by some of the old masters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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They called it “The impossible statue.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The AI didn’t do a great job on the ages, but the facial expression-reads were pretty good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A gorgeous glassed room full or communications-equipment had a fun game in it. This was the starting point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Running back and forth to collect clues hidden in the displays. At one point I had to teach her how binary numbers worked. Not sure if it stuck, but it was used in flagging systems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We opened the treasure chest!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sweden now has a lot of game\/multimedia-companies. This one room showed many of the designs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Computering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I found Finnur playing space invaders!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was getting late in the day, everyone was tired, so the kids spent some time playing on a PS together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Consoles on display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We were all both tired and hungry, so we found a place to eat lots of protein.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Protein, yes please.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The local mall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Fed and happy, walking to the parking lot, after a good day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thursday 28 March 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Our house and its yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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After the busy day the day before, this one was marked as “calm”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Stretching our legs a bit, walking to the lake “behind” our house, passing a large artificial turf used for soccer\/football practices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Swedish houses being Swedish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Another one, slightly less Swedish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A pier, of sorts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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There was a thin layer of ice still on the lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Having fun walking back and forth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The lake is loooong and skinny.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Peaceful. That blue house is a boat-rental.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Another house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Somebody lost a boat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Another lost boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A pair of ducks hiding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Hard to get more Swedish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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At this point I opened up Strava, and saw that there were no path turn off-s for a long while, it was just this long path along the lake. So we turned back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Legs stretched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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First cousins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The weather was nice, so a few of us wanted to bike to a nearby farm. The others drove. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Pulling our old bike-trailer. It’s sure come in handy over the years!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The two other bikers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The path through the trees was pretty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Then we decided to take the shortest mapped path, which turned out to a skinny planked thing! The trailer kept falling off the sides…!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We made it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Welcome to the Viewing-garden<\/a> (Show-farm).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Emma trying one of the bikes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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They had a few animals there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lived in houses?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The horse stables were off-limits, seemed like they were being rented by private parties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Easter decorations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Simple, but effective!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rumor has it that these are Icelandic horses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A couple of calves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Effective carrying.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Son and mother.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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More horses being led by us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Hello.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ikea-bags are so useful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Probably an Icelandic horse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Where dummies go to rest… forever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Rabbits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Emma found a tick stuck to the cat’s ear, and a lady came to remove it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The visitors that day. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Biking back, this time using the slightly longer, but much wider path.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lovely nature.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Picturesque spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Back in civilization.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A stately Swedish house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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First cousins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Dinner at our place!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Our home-owners had left a few toys, which came in very handy that evening!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The master-chef.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken 27 – 28 March 2024, posted online 17 August 2024. It’s my father-in-law’s birthday, which means the weather will be good!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

One of the staples of our city-trips, is visiting technology museums<\/a>. We’d visited the same museum eight years before<\/a>, but it had changed a whole lot in the intervening years. There was really just one area that I recognized!<\/p>\n

The following day we explored a bit around where we were staying, which included visiting a “viewing-farm”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 27 March 2024<\/h2>\n
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Outside the Museum of Technology in Stockholm, as we were leaving after a good visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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