Gunnel Hazelius-Berg

Gunnel Gunnarsdotter Hazelius-Berg née Hazelius (1905–1997) was a Swedish museum curator, textile researcher and writer. She spent her entire professional career at Stockholm's Nordic Museum. As the director responsible for textiles, over the years she arranged several highly acclaimed exhibitions. Hazelius-Berg took a special interest in traditional Swedish costumes. Together with her daughter-in-law Inga Arnö-Berg, in 1975 she published Folkdräkter och bygdedräkter från hela Sverige which was translated into English as Folk Costumes of Sweden: A Living Tradition.

Biography Born on 10 May 1905 in Stockholm, Gunnel Gunnarsdotter Hazelius was the daughter of Gunnar Hazelius and his wife Gina née Broman. Her paternal grandfather Artur Hazelius had founded and directed the Nordic Museum and her father had taken it over for a few years until his early death in February 1905. Gunnel was therefore raised by her widowed mother after they settled in her maternal grandparents' home. She did very well in modern languages at the girls' school she attended, perfecting these skills on trips abroad. Her interest in fabrics started early after she became responsible for acquiring them for historic buildings in the Skansen Open-Air Museum. In 1929, she married the ethnologist Gösta Berg, with whom she had two children: Jonas and Ann-Sofi. Together with her daughter-in-law Inga Arnö-Berg, in 1975 she published Folkdräkter och bygdedräkter från hela Sverige which was translated into English as Folk Costumes of Sweden: A Living Tradition.

Gunnel Hazelius-Berg died in Stockholm on 7 November 1997.