Château Gaillard, France. Photo by: Unknown The 500 000 view on our photos on Flickr Commons were registered today (March 29th). This shows us how well our photos have been received and appreciated by the large audience on Flickr. We’ re more than happy about that! :-) The Swedish National Heritage Board has also created a […]

Children at runic inscription from 1678, Risinge, Östergötland, Sweden, 1893. Photo: Erik Brate On March 17th, the Irish celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. At the Swedish National Heritage Board we celebrate 1 year of successful and rewarding presence as the first Scandinavian agency or institution on Flickr Commons, an international  photo sharing site where cultural heritage institutions (currently 33) […]

Photographer: Unknown A smaller collection of autochromes from the Swedish National Heritage Board has now been launched on Flickr Commons in a new Set. This Set, called ”Autochromes of Villa Bonnier”, contains 17 autochromes from the early 1930s (photographer unknown). They all show the exterior and the garden of a former private dwelling house in central Stockholm, […]

Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain. Photo: Carl Curman Starting today and during the following weeks we (the Flickr Commons team of the Swedish National Heritage Board) will upload a series of photographs taken by Carl Curman in Spain in 1878. The physician and health care pioneer Carl Curman travelled a lot in Europe, often in company of […]

Photo: Carl Curman A New Year has begun… and we on the Flickr Commons team at the Swedish National Heritage Board are pleased to continue uploading nice old photographs to our Flickr Commons account. Photo: Carl Curman Right now we show some wintry photos (to match the prevailing climate!) and others from Sweden taken by the physician […]

Fall has arrived in Visby, it has rained throughout the day and now the wind has increased in strength. In the church ruin everything is quiet, a lot of people are coming and going and several are sitting dead silence and watching the photos. We are one hour in the event and we have had […]

It’s getting closer…and it’s SO exciting! The ticket is booked and on Saturday a couple of us working at the National Heritage Board in Stockholm will cross the sea to Visby and Gotland to join the Visbydagen (Visby Day) event and ”Culture in the Night”, where the Flickr Commonsteam at the National Heritage Board will participate with the international event of Common Ground, curated […]

The Western Mound after excavation. Photo: Henri Osti One of the photos recently presented at Flickr Commons depicts an excavation performed in one of the imposing Uppsala Mounds called the Western Mound. The photo was taken by Henri Osti who emigrated from Germany to Sweden were he opened a photographer’s studio in Uppsala. As a […]

Den 3e oktober äger en högtid som har fått namnet Common Grounds rum. Det är amerikanska Brooklyn Museum och australiensiska Powerhouse Museum som har tagit initiativet till denna festlighet, där tanken är att alla institutioner som har lagt ut bilder på Flickr Commons ska ge sin publik möjlighet att träffa dem och varandra och titta […]