Women's Rights

Continued from my Library post

In the foyer of the Cultural Centre, there is an exhibition celebrating democracy and 100 years since women acquired the right to vote in national elections here in Sweden: 1921. 

Looking up some details now, I see that the "age of majority" back then was 23, though (nowadays 18). Which means neither of my grandmothers (born 1900 and 1902) would have been old enough to vote in that historic election. (And as a matter of fact, neither of my grandfathers either!)

As I was in the building anyway, I also took the opportunity to re-visit the Art Museum. With the suffragette movement still on my mind, one of the sculptures that caught my camera eye this time, was this one:

And seen from the back...

From one of the windows on the ground floor, one has this view towards the nearby church (built around 1906 if memory serves me right). That church is part of this summer's art exhibitions too, and I went over to check in there again as well. The modern art on display there consists a number  of see-through screens with "floating clouds" in various colours. They seemed to have multiplied since last time! But it was probably just me walking around more this time - and changing perspective (= looking up more than I did then) ;)

Back at the Cultural Centre, I then sat down for a while at the café and had an ice cream to recharge my batteries for the walk back home. Having done that, I even felt refreshed enough for another little detour ... (to be continued...)