The National Museum's summer exhibition at Läckö Castle in Lidköping is about our longing for the world.
Suitable after first pandemic and now pilot strike, passport problems and general chaos.
- It will be special when you have to portray travel from our perspective.
We have art and design that we can offer to describe a subject like this, says Micael Ernstell, exhibition commissioner at the National Museum.
The exhibition depicts how we have traveled through the ages, and how travel items have been designed and refined to suit needs and style.
In the video above, you can, for example, see a formerly so indispensable object that few today pack with them: the earlobe.
The objects say something about their time, but also about our own.
Pandemics, passport queues and airport chaos are nothing compared to how difficult it has been to travel before.
- Yes, if you look back to the Middle Ages, most people traveled on foot.
So you can generally say that it has become much more comfortable, says Micael Ernstell.
The exhibition "On the move" is produced by the National Museum and shown at Läckö Castle until 28 August.