Nordiska museet Stockholm
by RicardMN Photography
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Nordiska museet Stockholm
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RicardMN Photography
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The Nordic Museum (Swedish: Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgarden, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age (which for purposes of Swedish history is said to begin in 1520) until the contemporary period.
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 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.
The museum has over 1.5 million objects in its collections, including buildings such as the Julita farm in Sodermanland, Svindersvik in Nacka, Tyreso Palace in Tyreso, and the chaplain farm at Harkeberga near Enkoping. The Nordic Museum's archive also houses an extensive collection of documents and photographs.
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January 20th, 2016
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