NORDIC MUSEUM (NORDISKA MUSEET)
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This is Sweden's largest museum of cultural history, tracing the different ethnographic histories of Sweden.
Sweden's largest museum of cultural history. A huge Renaissance-style building housing collections devoted to Nordic peoples and their lives through the ages. One of the exhibition rooms traces the history of Sweden's only indigenous people, the Sami, through documented everyday objects.
The imposing building was erected between 1889 and 1907 by Isak Gustaf Clason. Its architecture, like that of16th-century castles, features gilded copper tops. It was Artur Hazelius, founder of the Skansen open-air museum, who began an ethnographic collection in 1873. This collection, considerably enriched by numerous donations, enabled the opening of the Nordic Museum in 1907. The collection includes costumes, kitchen utensils, photographs, tools, furniture, tapestries, toys - in short, everything that has been part of Swedish life since 1520, a precious testimony to the country's cultural history. The collections are presented in a lively manner, depicting moments of everyday life. The first floor is devoted to Sami culture, the2nd floor to folk art (with a gallery of costumes, food and toys), and the3rd floor features a retrospective of the country's furniture and housing. In the lobby on the1st floor, under the watchful eye of King Gustav Vasa, whose statue was erected in 1925 by Carl Milles, you'll find the Children's Museum, as well as a bookshop and restaurant.
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