We have built Spy exhibitions for severl years but want to build a proper and permanent Spy Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Spying and the art of espionage have always fascinated. However up until now, we still haven't got any "real" spy museum in Sweden.
Thanks to many good people I know, we have been building exhibitions in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Back at the end of 2005, I was asked to assist building the first exhibition at the Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm. We opened the exhibition the 1st of April 2006 and it was intended to run until the end of the year. However due to extremely popular demand, it was extended for nearly 6 more month if I remember correctly. To this day, it's one of the most popular exhibitions the Army Museum in Stockholm ever have had.
The exhibition was then made into a touring exhibition and is still in one way or another displayed in Sweden.
The first city to receive the then still nearly intact touring exhibition back in 2007 was "Aeroseum" in Gothenburg.
A fantastic old covert underground flight hangar near Säve airfield. Among other things, they display a large number of airplanes and is well worth a visit. After Aeroseum, the exhibition was broken up into several minor exhibitions.
I assisted in building the Spy-part of the Aeroseum exhibition and also assisted several years after with maintenance and updating to some extent. Now they have turned the exhibition into a display of the cold war and East Germany with the assistance of my friend Svante Winquist. Actually already in 2011 did Svante and I build a combination of Cold War/STASI and spy exhibition on Waxholms Kastell near Stockholm.
But as can be seen, up until now, there haven't been any real "Spy Museum", just (however very well done) exhibitions. In fact, back in 2005, the former executive of Army Museum in Stockholm made a survey with 1200 random selected commuters in Stockholm Central Train Station and asked what exhibition they most wanted to see. Not surprisingly, the absolute top request was a Spy exhibition, hence the initiative.
So, with my own experience and since I have a good network with skillful people with plenty of knowledge in the field, I'm very confident that we not only can make a interesting exhibition but a really good one. Mainly because when you make a exhibition, you always have to pick'n'choose since there are nearly never room for everything. With a museum, we can both build "offices" and "Spy HQ" as rooms as well as tell the stories of not only Swedish but also international incidents like to "fake rock story" in Moscow in 2006 or "the great Seal bug story" back in 1960. That's why I now have decided it's time to get started.
And if you wonder, yes I have good locations in mind but first I must see both the interest as well as that we can get financing.
Regarding financing, this is my ideas regarding contributions:
1000 SEK or more, you get 10 free tickets for the first opening week
10,000 SEK or more, you get as above plus your name in a ledger among contributors plus a private guide tour and the possibility to meet some very interesting people
100,000 SEK or more, as above plus you also have your name mentioned as one of the financial founders of the museum. You also get full financial insight
500,000 SEK or more, as above plus that you also have the ability to sit on the museums board of directors.
If this sounds anything for you, don't hesitate to contact me.
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