We went to the Technical Museum for my birthday last week. A number of the museums here in Stockholm open late on wednesday evenings, so we headed down after I finished work. The smell of machine oil perks me up every time, there is a main hall with many old steam and early internal combustion engines, and a few old cars including one of the original Saab 92s (not a Saabaru, so wrong but so right).
The interactive section is a lot more fun when its not full of children – I made meme_me a Möbius strip.
After the museum we went to the Kaknästornet, where we arrived just in time to get some food at the restaurant on the 30th floor. Being the only people there we got the finest seat in the house overlooking the lights of central Stockholm, with a view from Nacka in the south all the way around to Lidingö in the north. There was some excitement going on in the park around the tower, with some flashing blue lights apparently closing in around someone in the darkness.
And now I’m drinking apple and cloudberry yogourt, and reminiscing about previous birthday trips to the London science museum.