digitization

2024-04-05

One Book, 1000 Photographs

Digitizing funeral sermons from the library of Skokloster Castle In a back corner office of the museum storage, there is a little office where we photograph books. Some are big, some are small, all are old, and many are fragile, leaving behind little paper flecks on every surface they touch. They smell like dust and ...

2020-06-23

GrLXIV, part 2 – preservation

A historic collection consisting of ephemeral things is especially important to safeguard for the future. The Hallwyl archive is such a collection. It gives fascinating insights into a wealthy household of the last turn of the century, but it contains all sorts of things, from love letters that have been read many, many times to ...

2020-06-23

GrLXIV?

What is Gr LXIV, is a question I hear a lot. It’s Group 64, obviously. Anybody who has ever worked at the Hallwyl Museum knows that. Wilhelmina von Hallwyl decided that the collections of objects in the museum should be documented groupwise, each group with its own Roman number. Group I is the house at ...