Foto: Helen Simonsson 2014, CC-BY. Enligt Kulturmiljölagen delas ansvaret för kulturmiljön av alla. Länsstyrelserna och Riksantikvarieämbetet får göra de åtgärder som behövs för att vårda fornlämningarna – men alla kan bidra till bevarandearbetet. Av Sveriges kända runinskrifter är det cirka 1500 runstenar, block eller hällar som befinner sig utomhus i landskapet. Hos Riksantikvarieämbetets Kulturvårdsavdelning i […]

Three years have passed since the Swedish National Heritage Board presented Fredrik Bruno and his 1940s colour photographs on Flickr Commons. Since the images have been largely appreciated, we thought it would be nice to renew the acquaintance and show some more of these photos from different towns around Sweden (and some from the countryside), […]

The Swedish National Heritage Board is celebrating 5 rewarding years on The Commons on Flickr, where we show and share old copyright free images since March 17th, 2009. Until today, 1.325 images have been uploaded to our photostream, arranged in 24 picture sets and five picture collections reflecting our large public collections of photos and […]

Starting today, the Swedish National Heritage Board invites you to enjoy a choice of photographs by the Swedish botanist and landscape historian Mårten Sjöbeck, which we will upload to a new picture set on Flickr Commons during spring. The images, which are from the 1920s to about 1960, show landscapes and cultural environments, towns, buildings […]

Did you, your parents or grandparents ever send or receive a postcard from Sweden before the 1970s? If so, that postcard might very well have been produced by the Almquist & Cöster Company; one of the major postcard companies in Sweden, founded in the 1920s by the photographer Salfon Almquist and the technician Rudolph Cöster […]

We are proud to tell that the photographs of the Swedish National Heritage Board on Flickr Commons now have been viewed more than three million times. This striking number was reached and passed this week and is surely worthy of some attention. Our participation on The Commons on Flickr has allowed so many people from […]

Celebrations, Flatekval, 1898. A popular image from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane on Flickr Commons. Photo: unknown Five years ago, on the 16th of January, 2008 The Commons was launched as a part of  Flickr, the international website for photo sharing with millions of viewers and users. The initiator of The Commons was the Library […]

Skeppsbron vid kejsar Wilhelm II:s besök. Foto: Carl Curman, 1888 Pinterest är bland det senaste på social media-himmelen och är en foto-delningssajt där användarna kan samla bilder baserat på teman, t ex händelser eller intressen. Europeana gör just nu ett test med att lägga ut (eller ”pinna”) bilder på Pinterest från de deltagande institutionerna. Bland […]

Europeana är platsen där du kan dyka ner i hela Europas kulturarv. Och det var just det som många av Europas kulturministrar och andra företrädare gjorde under ett event i Bryssel på Europadagen den 9 maj. De hade fått välja ut ett favoritföremål från sitt land som finns presenterat i Europeana och sedan berätta om […]