STOCKHOLMSKÄLLAN (The Stockholm Source) – OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE ON THE WEB

Can you see the clues in the photograph? Clues that tell us something about what life was like in our part of town a hundred years ago. Who were the people behind the names on an old list of tenants? A neatly handwritten list of names with the annual rental in a column alongside them.

Stockholmskällan is a website where one can access historical and current factual sources that provide information about Stockholm and its populace over the years. On the website you will find photographs, architectural plans and drawings, films and original documents. The website also gives hints about additional reading matter and links to other sources of information.

"We provide the sources and you extract the knowledge"

The material on the website is a selection of what is available in the Municipal Archive, the Stockholm City Museum, Library of Stockholm and the municipality's own Department of Research and Statistics. One of the fundamental aims of the Stockholmskällan website is to lift the city's cultural heritage out of the archives and to make it readily available via the Internet.

The only limit on what you can find out from Stockholmskällan is your own imagination. The amount of material that can be accessed from the website is growing all the time so there is always a reason to return to the site.

The website has been developed in collaboration with pupils and teachers in local schools. We want Stockholmskällan to be a lively meeting place where everyone can share in the cultural heritage of our community.

Stockholm has vast collections of documents and information. This means that the Stockholmskällan website will never be able to contain more than a fraction of the material available. There are three criteria for selecting information.

o Proposals for information made directly by pupils and teachers – an aspect of our collaboration with the schools (6th-12th grades).

o The participating institutions agree on a common theme for collecting material.

o Each institution decides which of its own materials should be published on the Stockholmskällan website based on the importance of the material and whether it is free of copyright and will be useful to people consulting the site.

" The Stockholmskällan website is adapted to the needs of young users"

The website's primary target group consists of pupils and teachers from the 6th grade upwards. Though the site is naturally available to anyone who wants to use it. Pupils can also publish their work on the website as an inspiration to other youngsters.

ABM COLLABORATION

On the Stockholmskällan website there are educational examples showing how materials from different sources can enrich each other as one studies a specific subject or place. If you cannot find sufficient material about something that you are interested in you are welcome to visit our institutions in person. We can help you to find out what materials are available and make them accessible to you.

"Visitors are welcome – even in non-virtual reality"

Stockholmskällan is the result of collaboration between five municipal departments in Stockholm. Since the document collections differ between the different departments, collaboration gives a much more comprehensive picture of the city's past.

The Stockholmskällan website gives local people, and others who are interested in the city's history, a simple method of consulting archives, chests full of plans and drawings, photographic collections and bookshelves. In the past these materials have not been accessible in one place. Now we see how valuably they complement each other. Via the website you can read a story about a particular section of the city, or a portrayal of what it was like to grow up there, while consulting an inventory of the buildings in the district and having access to historical photographs of the area. And you can look for information about the site that interests you in architectural drawings, old maps and statistical records.