NORDIC MUSEUM (NORDISKA MUSEET)
This is Sweden's largest museum of cultural history, tracing the different ethnographic histories of Sweden.
The largest museum of cultural history in Sweden. A huge Renaissance building that houses collections dedicated to the Nordic peoples and their lives through the ages. One of the exhibition rooms tells the story of Sweden's only indigenous people, the Sami, through documented everyday objects.
The imposing building was built between 1889 and 1907 by Isak Gustaf Clason. Its architecture, like the castles of the 16th century, has golden copper tops. It was Artur Hazelius, creator of the Skansen open-air museum, who started an ethnographic collection in 1873. This collection, considerably enriched by numerous donations, allowed the opening of the Nordic Museum in 1907. It contains costumes, kitchen utensils, photographs, tools, furniture, tapestries, toys, in short, everything that has made up the living environment of the Swedes since 1520, a precious testimony to the cultural history of the country. The presentation of the collections, conceived in a lively manner, stages moments of daily life. The first floor is devoted to Swedish culture; thesecond floor to folk art, with a gallery of costumes, food and toys; and thethird floor features a retrospective of Swedish furniture and housing. In the entrance hall on thefirst floor, under the watchful eye of King Gustav Vasa, whose statue was built in 1925 by Carl Milles, there is a children's museum as well as a bookstore and a restaurant.
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