I will eventually have visited every metro station in Stockholm, but given the short time I’ve been here, its probably going to be a while.

Usually I don’t understand what the metro decoration has to do with an actual place. Where I work in Solna, there is a hospital and the mythical home of Santa Claus which is really a mail station. But, the metro station is painted to look like the country and it features a miniature house and a moose. Solna features neither of these things.

This metro station, it all made sense. I had the day off to see the city and decided to get off where the station looked the most interesting and this is plenty interesting:

Another view:

This is the stop for Stockholm University, so the stop is obviously called University.

And, appropriately, the stop features all kinds of educational looking things:

The station also featured a few things that I found hard to categorize. For example who is this gentleman and what is he doing?

The lips remind me of the surrealist ones in the Man Ray photographs:

I have no idea what this is supposed to be:

At least these following images could perhaps invoke science or something:

In the following, the camel is on top of the whale and the fish is in the whale. It makes sense, don’t worry. Just look at the pictures:

And now the metro station is about to get interesting. What, you thought we were done with that? Not even close. This metro station featured two things I am absolutely positively sure no other metro on the planet will ever feature.

First, the miracle of life:

If you don’t see it at first, look at the bottom of the photo where it features the word “sperm.” Now the New York City metro, probably features a few words that describe the acts involved with the miracle of life, but a literal expression of it? I’m afraid we gotta go to the Swedes for that one.

And of course what would creating life be without a graph depiction of the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history:

For those of who don’t know, the Swedes uncovered that something was amiss with their neighbors to the East. Now the Swedes have their faults, but one thing is for sure. At least they want to preserve the environment, not create problems with it that will last generations.

The metro art also features a helpful time line of the discovery:

And at the end of the entry, the exit:

I’d say this isn’t your average metro station.