Metropolis – Lund and the Middle Ages
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Displayed in the White House (the entrance house).
On display is a wealth of objects which Kulturen’s archaeologists have unearthed in Lund over the past 130 years. The exhibition tells the story of Lund, a city in the kingdom of Denmark, and its rise as a key religious centre that held sway over the whole church province of Scandinavia.
The metropolitan
In the Middle Ages, Lund had the most churches of any city in Scandinavia, and it was where the archbishop – the metropolitan – had his seat. The exhibition has a thematic approach to medieval culture, and we have added new objects and updated the exhibition labels in light of current knowledge.
Skilled workers
Many professions moved to the city to meet the demand for goods and skilled workers. The ‘Working in the City’ room has four short films about some of those trades: spinning and weaving, shoemaking, cutler craft and carpenter craft.
Late 900s to 1679
The thematic story is complemented by two audio-visual presentations of Lund’s chronological history, from before it was founded and covering the events which shaped it, starting in the late 900s and ending in 1679.
Lund becomes Swedish
Lund became a Swedish city in 1658, after several wars between Denmark and Sweden in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
