…I spent in Karlstad, Sweden. Arrived early (9.30 am) at the hotel and after changing into my civilian clothes I went out to explore Karlstad city.
Karlstad has a population of about 80 000 and got its name in 1584. The city is placed on the northern shore of Lake Vänern and is the capital of Värmland County. And as I learned during the day - the treaty ending the union of Sweden and Norway was signed here in 1905.
I started out exploring the city centre. It had is usual line up of shops and small malls. After a while I expanded my area and was surprised to find a lovely river, the Klara River, running through town. There also were a lot of nice and lovely old buildings spread around. I think the oldest I found dated back to the early 15th century.
I then took a small walk up along the Klara River. It is wide and slow floating. A nice weather and fall colors made it a nice walk.
Returning I went to the library where I spent an hour or so reading through some of their magazines. After that I took to the Värmlands Museum.
The Museum consists of two buildings. Both quite different and interesting - architectonical wise. The oldest one built in 1928, and the newest one in 1998. They had a display taking me through the history of the region from 8000BC until present time. They also had a part of the museum which somewhat reminded me of my parents basement. Things from the 60s and 70s were thrown together on different displays and shelves without any further explanation.
What I remember best from their exhibitions? Hats! It’s incredible what kind of creations people have worn on their heads.
There also was an art exhibition with paintings for sale. Their fall exhibition I think. I really liked two of the paintings there. They were of the same artist and were painted collages of a white horse. Unfortunally parts of them was made up of newspapers and I don’t think they will take the time and wear of the years to come too well.
I also got to visit Karlstads Cathedral. There was no one else in there and it was nice and quiet inside. There came a man and closed the doors just as I was leaving.
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