Share your story with Nordiska Museet!

Nordiska Museet turns 150 years old this year and it has been celebrated with a bang! With programs throughout the year, it has been an eventful anniversary. Nordiska has a wish for their birthday on October 24, they want the people’s stories. You can now submit what your day looks like as a birthday gift to the museum.

Photo: Hans Ekestang, Nordiska museet

Nordiska museet turned 100 years old in 1973 and to celebrate they wanted to document what everyday life and the world looked like at the time. People from far and wide sent in their stories. Everything from what lessons you had at school to what you ate for breakfast and read in the morning paper. Big or small, long or short, Nordiska now wants to hear what your life looks like in 2023.

Submit what your day looks like during Nordiska’s bithday. Can be a long story about how you live, your surroundings, today’s issues and how you live. It can also be a short text about what you ate for lunch, what you wore and what song you heard on the radio. With a collection of your memories, Nordiska can compare life today with life in the 70s. Then when they turn 200 years old in 2073, they can compare the stories they will receive then with how we lived today.

This is how you participate:

Access Nordiska’s collection here: minnen.se/tema/24-oktober-2023

There you can submit your story from their birthday (24 October) and until a month after that. On that page you can also read what people sent in to the museum in 1973. Whether it’s for inspiration or just for fun reading, we strongly recommend taking a look. It is already open before the 2023 collection opens.

As simple as that! Preserve our Nordic history and become part of the documentation of life in 2023.