Nordic Museum
- This article is about the Nordic Museum in Stockholm. For the Nordic Museum in the Ballard district of Seattle, Washington see Nordic Heritage Museum.
| Nordiska museet | |
 The Nordic Museum as seen from Kaknästornet. | |
| Established | 1873 |
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| Location | Djurgårdsvägen 6–16 on Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Visitors | 237 964 (2015) |
| Director | Sanne Houby-Nielsen |
| Public transit access |
Metro: Karlaplan metro station  Bus: 44. Tram: Djurgården Line Ferry: Djurgårdsfärjan |
| Website | http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/en |
The Nordic Museum (Swedish: Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said to begin in 1520) to the contemporary period. The museum was founded in the late 19th century by Artur Hazelius, who also founded the open-air museum Skansen. For long part of the museum, the institutions were made independent of each other in 1963.
History
The museum was originally (1873) called the Scandinavian Ethnographic Collection (Skandinavisk-etnografiska samlingen), from 1880 the Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museum, now Nordiska museet). When Hazelius established the open-air museum Skansen in 1891, it was the second such museum in the world.
For museum, Hazelius bought or got donations of objects like furniture, clothes andtoys from all over Sweden and the other Nordic countries; he emphasised the peasant culture, but his successors increasingly started to collect objects reflecting bourgeois and urban lifestyles as well. For Skansen, he collected entire buildings and farms.
Although the project did not initially get the government funding he had hoped, Hazelius received widespread support and donations, and by 1898, the Society for the promotion of the Nordic Museum (Samfundet för Nordiska Museets främjande) had 4,525 members. The Riksdag allocated some money for the museums in 1891 and doubled the amount in 1900, the year before Hazelius died.
Building
The present building, the design of Isak Gustaf Clason, was completed in 1907. Originally, it was intended to be a national monument housing the material inheritance of the nation. It was, however, only half-completed for the Stockholm Exposition 1897, and it never was completed to the extent originally planned, three times the actual size. It takes its style from Dutch-influenced Danish Renaissance architecture (i.e. buildings such as Frederiksborg Palace) rather than any specifically Swedish historical models. The core of the “cathedralesque” building is taken up by a huge main hall passing through all the stories up to the roof and dominated by the enormous sculpture of King Gustav Vasa, the Swedish so called founder-king. For the construction, brick and granite was used for the walls, while concrete was used for the roof.[1]
Collections
The museum has over 1.5 million objects in its collections, including buildings such as the Julita farm in Södermanland, Svindersvik in Nacka, Tyresö Palace in Tyresö, and the chaplain farm at Härkeberga near Enköping. The museum archive also houses an extensive collection of documents and photographs.[2]
Gallery
Façade
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Sculpture on the western gable
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Spire
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Onion dome
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Gilt scuppers
Interior
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Entrance hall with Gustav Vasa
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Main hall
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Roof lantern
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The exhibition Table Settings
See also
References
- ↑ Johansson, Bengt O H (1999). "Norra innerstaden". Guide till Stockholms arkitektur (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Arkitektur Förlag AB. p. 42. ISBN 91-86050-41-9.
- ↑ "Collections". http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/. Retrieved 11 October 2014. External link in
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