Published 19 June 2021 at 16.51
Kulturnyheter. The National Museum has provided much of its art with politically colored warning texts. This is stated by the archaeologist Leif Gren at the Swedish National Heritage Board in a critical debate article.
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Three years ago, the National Museum attracted attention when they provided Gustaf Cederström's world-famous painting “Charles XII's equality” with a warning text about nationalism.
“The populist and nationalist view of Swedishness, which is used politically today, is based on the idea of a statically idealized and constructed past. The idea that there is a historical time and place to look back on, where everything was in a certain way, is not true “, the National Museum claimed, among other things.
The National Museum's rhetoric, where the painting by the museum was used to try to reach the Sweden Democrats and other right-wing parties, culminated when a left-wing extremist entered the museum and vandalized the painting.
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Here the left-wing extremist knife man is filmed vandalizing the famous Charles XII painting at the National Museum
Painting with fishermen racist
But Charles XII's funeral is far from the only painting at the National Museum that has been provided with a political warning text. This is now stated by the archaeologist Leif Gren at the National Heritage Board, who is critical of the texts.
In several places in the museum, warnings have been set up informing visitors that the paintings depict politically incorrect ideals.
En of the paintings provided with such a warning text is Carl Wilhelmson's “Church people in a boat” from 1909. The reason is that it depicts Swedish fishermen in the country, something which according to the museum is racist.
“Ever since Romanticism had the idea that it Inherited folk characteristics characterized by German and Nordic thinking. received an anthropological racial research focus “, writes the National Museum in its warning text.