Nordbor - Nordic Life Exhibition

Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2024 - ongoing

In February 2024, Nordiska museet opened its largest exhibition ever – Nordic Life (in Swedish calledNordbor). A visual museum experience and a dynamic narrative about everyday life and people in the Nordic region over 500 years.

The museum’s biggest exhibition effort ever is produced by Nordiska museet in collaboration with experts from universities and museums in Sweden and the Nordic countries. It is a visual experience and manifestation of the extensive collections at Nordiska museet.

The new core exhibition, Nordic Life , spans the entire top floor of the Nordiska museet on Djurgården and includes approximately 4,000 objects distributed across 27 rooms.

As a visitor, you will journey through our cultural history and four seasons. Past forests, villages, and cities. Along the way, you will encounter real-life stories from history. Traveler Samuel, forest dweller Elisabet, freedom enthusiast Peter, and midwife Catarina are some of them.

For this project, I created a large plaster “garden installation”, inspired by manicured topiary mazes - by applying individual plaster “leaves” across the expansive walls and parts of the ceiling. This was all done by hand to achive an organic effect and then painted green in two shades. I also designed and created plaster moulds, which were then cast in plaster by the museum’s art department and these were selectively hung across several rooms.

The first three images are of the “Garden Rooms” and the remaing give an idea of the other spaces, desined by the very talented MUSEEA.


Photo credit: Emil Fagander /Nordiska museet