Qualla: Gotland Museum https://qualla.com/gotland-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gotland Museum https://qualla.com/gotland-museum Gotland Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit W. carter, CC BY-SA 4.0. On May 22, 1875, at five o'clock in the afternoon, a small group of Gotlanders decided to save their island's past. The Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society, just a year old and founded at the urging of Pehr Arvid Säve, voted to rent premises for a Hall of Antiquities. They first took a room in an old girls' school near Visby Cathedral. Five years later, they purchased something more permanent: a former brännvin distillery on Strandgatan. The irony was fitting. Where spirits once flowed, history would now be preserved. Today the Gotland Museum holds 400,000 objects spanning 7,000 years, from Stone Age axes to medieval seals, including the Spillings Hoard, the largest Viking-era silver treasure ever discovered in a single deposit.

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/u6jp-gotland-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gotland Museum: The Weight of Silver https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit Artifex, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Spillings Hoard draws visitors from around the world. Discovered in 1999 on a farm in northern Gotland, the treasure contained over 67 kilograms of silver and 20 kilograms of bronze, buried around 870 AD when Viking trade networks stretched from Scandinavia to Baghdad. The mu...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/u6jp-gotland-museum-the-weight-of-silver.mp3 0:06 2 full Gotland Museum: 1361: The Year Everything Changed https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit Ypsilon from Finland, CC0. One of the museum's most powerful exhibitions tells the story of the Danish invasion of 1361. Valdemar Atterdag's forces landed on Gotland that summer, meeting resistance at Mästerby and then outside the walls of Visby itself. The Battle of Visby was not a fair fight. Local farme...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/u6jp-gotland-museum-1361-the-year-everything-changed.mp3 0:06 3 full Gotland Museum: A Network of Places https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Gotland Museum extends far beyond its main building on Strandgatan. Gotlands Konstmuseum, the art museum on Sankt Hansgatan, occupies a building constructed between 1847 and 1858 as Visby's first public school. The Kapitelhusgården, or Chapter House Manor, served as the resid...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/u6jp-gotland-museum-a-network-of-places.mp3 0:06 4 full Gotland Museum: The Bishop's Woodshed https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit Ypsilon from Finland, CC0. The Kapitelhusgården earned an undignified nickname in its long history. After the Reformation ended Catholic episcopal visits, the grand Chapter House became the town's firewood depot. Locals called it the bishop's woodshed. The building has since reclaimed its dignity. Each sum...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/j/p/gotland-museum-wp/u6jp-gotland-museum-the-bishops-woodshed.mp3 0:06 5 full Gotland Museum: Preserving the Island's Voice https://qualla.com/gotland-museum/ Photo credit Sorgann, CC BY-SA 4.0. From those few founding members in 1874, the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society has grown to over 2,400 members. Membership remains open to anyone willing to pay the fee. The society's mission has never changed: collect objects from everyday island life, document the intangib...

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