Nordic Museum

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The Nordic Museum (

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 the museum, Hazelius bought or got donations of objects like furniture, clothes and toys 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

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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
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  Street View
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  From south

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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  Exhibition on the history of dining table arrangements

See also

• List of museums in Stockholm
• Culture in Stockholm

References