Sweden Solar System

I went on a hunt for a few of these when I was in Stockholm recently and it was a bit disappointing. We couldn't find a sign at the globe and lots of places were shut. Venus is now a building site and we couldn't find Jupiter at the airport. We found the Earth and moon, Mars and Mercury (from a distance). It is a good way to explore and you get good value out of a T-bana pass. Edit…

For another fun scale-comparing trick, if you had a model of the whole visible universe, somehow flattened into 2D, with the distance between Sol and Alpha Centauri being around a millimeter, you should be able to fit the whole thing on a half of the Earth's surface. With the Sweden Solar System scale, Alpha Centauri would be around five times the distance to the Moon out, so there's still a bit of a hurdle visualizing how the two scales fit…

Walking from Globen (the sun) to Naturhistoriska (the earth) could be made into a quite nice 10 km walk, with possible detours to see much of the old worker's town of Södermalm, the old town, the city center around Klara/Norrmalm, the urban residential area Sibirien, the university and finally ending up at the science museum Naturhistoriska. The Stockholm novels by Per Anders Fogelström starting with "City of My Dreams" largely plays out across that walk, if you're interested in the…