Listen to microstories
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A wide range of researchers and experts have contributed stories about the objects and artworks on display in Gustavianum’s exhibitions. You can listen to these recorded microstories either in the museum or via this website. Scan the QR code with your phone and enter the three-digit number for the relevant object or artwork. Alternatively, visit the website https://blocks.gustavianum.uu.se
The microstories are grouped by exhibition.
History of the University
Lectures notes from the 1480s | 001 |
Academia Carolina: Uppsala’s first University building | 004 |
The deposition ceremony: student initiation in the 16th and 17th centuries | 005 |
An Uppsala student in the 18th-century | 007 |
Older academic dissertations in Uppsala | 008 |
The mortar and Swedish chemistry in the 18th century | 009 |
The University’s silver sceptres and beadle’s staff | 011 |
The Gothic Society and King Karl XIV Johan’s visit to the Royal Mounds of Uppsala in 1834. Oil painting by Johan Way, 1836 | 012 |
Gunnar Wennerberg, Gluntarne: 19th-century Uppsala student romanticism | 013 |
Women’s access to the academy | 014 |
A 1923 model of the neon atom | 016 |
Osborne 1: a pioneering portable computer | 017 |
The doctoral hat: a symbol of academic freedom | 018 |
History of Science
1665 telescope and a 1690s lens | 022 |
Sundial made by Olof Rudbeck the Elder and Philip Jacob Thelott, c. 1670 | 023 |
Samuel Klingenstierna: Sweden’s foremost mathematician of the 18th century | 024 |
Anders Celsius’ thermometer | 025 |
The blowpipe’s significance for eighteenth-century chemists | 027 |
Voltaic pile: the first battery | 029 |
Mapping the solar spectrum using a diffraction grating | 030 |
19th century anatomical museums: resources for medical research and training | 033 |
Uppsala School of Home Economics and an innovation of the 1920s: the washing machine | 034 |
The cylindrical slide rule and Allvar Gullstrand’s pioneering research on the eye’s refractive power | 035 |
Theodor (The) Svedberg and the significance of the ultracentrifuge for cell biology | 036 |
Measuring electric currents and radiation: Swedish physicist Eva von Bahr | 037 |
Swedish physicist Kai Siegbahn and the development of electron spectroscopic method | 039 |
Maps in the service of science: geographer Gerd Enequist | 040 |
Karin Westman Berg: a pioneer in women’s studies | 041 |
The Linnaeus family household in Uppsala and at the country estate of Hammarby | 045 |
Human classification in Carl Linnaeus’ tenth edition of Systema Naturae (1758) | 048 |
Carl Linnaeus’ legacy | 049 |
Carl Linnaeus’ account of the Lapland journey of 1732: Flora Lapponica (1737) | 050 |
Carl Linnaeus’ twelve editions of Systema Naturae, 1735–1768 | 051 |
The lighting revolution: Thomas Edison’s carbon‑filament lamp | 052 |
What does a kilo weigh? | 054 |
The Anatomical Theatre, Uppsala | 061 |
The Mediterranean and the Nile Valley: Ancient Egypt
Canopic jars: embalming practice in ancient Egypt | 063 |
Egypt in the Hellenistic period: an inscription on a sarcophagus lid | 065 |
The coffin of the temple singer Tayuheret | 066 |
Ostraca from Dier el-Medina Author: Sofia Häggman | 067 |
Provisions for the journey to the afterlife: a duck in a box | 069 |
Vessels of alabaster – ancient Egyptian souvenirs Author: Sofia Häggman | 070 |
Pinudjem II’s shabti | 071 |
Amenhotep’s coffin and the trade in Egyptian antiquities | 072 |
Mummified cat: a gift to the gods | 075 |
The coffin of the priest Chonsumes | 077 |
Texts from the Book of the Dead | 078 |
Mummy bandage of Nefertiu | 079 |
Pyramid texts of King Pepy I | 080 |
Harmful magic: an ostracon with spells | 081 |
A multilingual decree from a synod in Alexandria, 243 BC | 086 |
The aftermath: the stele of Setjairetbenet | 087 |
Faiyum portraits: faces of ancient Egyptians | 089 |
Two thousand years of Nubian culture | 091 |
The Mediterranean and the Nile Valley: Ancient Greece and Rome
Stirrup jars | 093 |
Greek kylix from the Mycenaean period Author: Erika Weiberg | 094 |
The potter’s tools – roller stamps | 095 |
Dionsysus motif in Greek vase paintings | 100 |
Bronze coin depicting Cleopatra | 101 |
Bronze coin from Samos Author: Ragnar Hedlund | 102 |
Bust of young Roman woman Author: Ragnar Hedlund | 104 |
Young man on a funerary relief from Palmyra | 108 |
Bathhouse in Asine Author: Dominic Ingemark | 117 |
Roman glass drinking vessel | 118 |
How are archeological finds dated? | 120 |
Terracotta figures from Cyprus | 121 |
Plank figurines | 123 |
Bell krater with a festal scene | 129 |
Tiles for columns (pilae) in Roman baths | 135 |
Funerary inscription for a child | 143 |
Three Tanagra figurines | 144 |
Animal sacrifice scene on a hydria | 145 |
Protective amulet: gold bull’s-head earring | 150 |
Apulian vase | 151 |
Dawn of the Vikings
Bronze vessel | 152 |
The tools of trade: scales and weights | 153 |
Bridle from a boat grave at Valsgärde, Uppland | 155 |
What is a Viking? | 156 |
Ring sword | 158 |
A helmet for the men of power | 163 |
Bone carving in the form of an animal head | 164 |
Whalebone game pieces | 165 |
Coin Cabinet
The first coins | 166 |
Byzantine coins | 168 |
Coin from the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible | 169 |
Coin from the reign of Alexander the Great | 178 |
Medal of Sigismondo Malatesta | 179 |
King Gustav II Adolf’s funeral medal | 180 |
Ottoman coins | 182 |
Art Collection and the Augsburg Art Cabinet
Stained-glass windows from Hablingbo Church on Gotland, first half of the 14th century | 184 |
Altarpiece door from an Uppland parish church, early 16th century, oil on wood | 185 |
Aquamanile, c. 1300, brass | 186 |
Madonna and Child, c. 1300–1330, wooden sculpture | 187 |
Johann Friedrich Tischbein, Portraits of Mårten Bunge and Constance Creutz, 1788, oil on canvas | 188 |
Piero della Francesca (contemporary follower of), Madonna and Child, c. 1450, oil on panel | 189 |
Corrado Giaquinto, The martyrdom of Saint Jude Thaddeus, c. 1753–1762, oil on canvas | 190 |
Niccolò Soggi (attributed to), The Holy Family, first half of the 16th century, oil on panel | 191 |
Giovanni Battista Pittoni, The martyrdom of Saint Clement, c. 1750, oil on canvas | 192 |
Ruth Milles, Peasant woman, 1906, bronze | 193 |
Agnes de Frumerie, Child, c. 1898–1899, marble | 194 |
Gustaf Cederström, The murder of Nils Sture, 1880, oil on canvas | 195 |
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Portrait of Lorens von der Linde, 1661, oil on canvas | 196 |
Bruno Liljefors, Self-portrait, 1912, oil on canvas | 197 |
Joachim Patinir (circle of), A world landscape, c. 1525–1550, oil on panel | 198 |
Elias Martin, Woman in a landscape, 1770s, oil on canvas | 199 |
Pehr Hilleström, Interior with a woman winding yarn, ca 1790, oil on canvas | 200 |
August Strindberg, The lighthouse III, 1901, oil on canvas | 201 |
Ester Ellqvist-Bauer, Portrait of Stina Tirén, 1905, oil on canvas | 202 |
Abraham Wuchters, Portrait of Queen Kristina, 1661, oil on canvas | 203 |
George Desmarées, Portrait of Johan Arckenholtz, 1753, oil on canvas | 204 |
Egron Lundgren, Portrait of Jacob Axel Josephson, 1846, oil on canvas | 206 |
Sébastien Bourdon, Portrait of Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie, 1653, oil on canvas | 208 |
Indian armchair of Queen Dowager Katarina Stenbock, c. 1570, satin wood | 209 |
The Augsburg Art Cabinet: collecting the world | 210 |
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Portrait of Erik Dahlbergh, 1664, oil on canvas | 211 |
Pieter Claesz. (attributed to), Still life, c. 1630, oil on panel | 212 |
The Augsburg Art Cabinet: the world in a cabinet | 213 |
Greta Knutson, View from a window, c. 1930, oil on canvas | 214 |
Johannes Rosenbrock (attributed to), Portraits of Pehr Gustaf af Ugglas och Theresine af Ugglas, c. 1840, oil on canvas | 215 |
Johan Krouthén, Duke Karl’s chamber at Gripsholm Castle, c. 1880, oil on canvas | 216 |
Floris van Schooten, Still life with a woman in a kitchen,1620s, oil on panel | 217 |
Caspar van Wittel, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, c. 1700, oil on canvas | 218 |
Carl Kylberg, Still life with red geraniums, c. 1939, oil on canvas | 219 |
Pieter Aertsen, Meat stall, 1551, oil on panel | 220 |
The Augsburg Art Cabinet: the Venus cup | 224 |
The Augsburg Art Cabinet: Swedish additions | 225 |
Jacob Binck (copy after), Portrait of King Gustav Vasa, 16th-century copy after an original from 1542, oil on canvas | 226 |
Crown Prince Karl (later King Karl XV), Norwegian landscape, 1857, olja på duk | 229 |
Johan Gustaf Sandberg, King Gustav Vasa receives the first Swedish Bible translation, 1837, oil on canvas & Hjalmar Mörner, The skirmish at Bender, 1837, oil on canvas | 230 |
Nils Kreuger, A September evening, Riddarfjärden, Stockholm, 1924, oil on panel | 231 |
Karl Isakson, Still life, c. 1939, oil on canvas | 232 |
Peter Paul Rubens, his workshop (attributed to), Portrait of Paracelsus, probably 1610s, oil on panel | 233 |
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (contemporary copy after), Peasant wedding, first half of the 17th century, oil on panel | 237 |
Jonas Åkerström, Achilles with the corps of Hector, c. 1787, oil on canvas | 240 |
Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Portrait of Sofia Theresia af Ugglas, 1816, oil on canvas | 242 |
Jacob Marrel, Still life with flowers, 1668, oil on canvas | 247 |
Unknown artist, An old dog, mid-18th century, oil on canvas | 260 |