Malmö, Sweden

Date: July 3, 2018
Location: Malmö, Sweden (day trip from Lund, Sweden)

From the city of Lund, it is just over a 10-minute train ride to Malmö. Malmö is the third-largest city in Sweden after Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Leaving Centralstation in Malmö, here is the view looking over the river.

We crossed a bridge to the Västra Hamnen neighborhood.

In the Västra Hamnen neighborhood, the tallest building in Scandinavia, the Turning Torso, stands 623 feet above the ground. The building was completed in 2005 and is all apartments.

Here is Malmöhus Slott with a collection of museums inside called Malmö Museer.

There are some temporary exhibits. The below picture is from the temporary exhibit Dreams of Hollywood. It showed 1930s evening fashion.

Another one of the temporary exhibits is called Perpetual Uncertainty – art and radioactivity. The exhibit investigated nuclear technology and radiation.

Included with Malmö Museer is the Science and Maritime Museum. Some exhibits in the museum include aircraft, vehicles and steam engines. There is also the U3 submarine that was built in 1944.

You can go on to the submarine and walk, or actually crawl, through it. I went through the door in the center, round hole.

This was the start of the section about innovations. The zipper, ultrasounds, and Nicorette gum were all invented in Sweden, as well as many other items.

On the top floor of the Science and Maritime Museum there all sorts of hands-on experiments. This is a ball that is suspended in air by the air flow, called a Bernoulli Blower.

This windmill is on the side of Kungsparken, a park.

In the park there is a garden that supplies the cafe.

The park had a few different bridges that crossed the canal that goes through it.

The park has a lake in it as well as a casino.

Soccer is very big here. On the day we were in Malmö, Sweden was playing in the round of 16 for the World Cup. To watch the game a large-screen was set up in Folkets park. When we arrived, the line to get inside the fenced-off area was really long as there was a security check. It looked like inside was already packed, but the screen was so high up that we found a place to see it from the back. People were stopped being allowed inside shortly after.

We stayed in the park until half-time and then went back to our Airbnb in Lund. As we were walking back we could hear people cheering from their houses; the game ended and Sweden beat Switzerland 1 – 0 to go onto the quarter-finals.

Malmö was nice. I would go back there again.