Nordic Museum
{{Short description|Museum located on Djurgården, Sweden}}
{{about|the Nordic Museum in Stockholm|the Nordic Museum in the Ballard district of Seattle, Washington|National Nordic Museum}}
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{{Infobox Museum
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|native_name = Nordiska museet
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|logo = Nordiska Museet Logo.svg
|image = Nordiska museet sett från Skansen 2005-07-29.jpg
|caption = The Nordic Museum as seen from Skansen
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|established = {{start date and age|1873}}
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|location = Djurgårdsvägen 6–16 on Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden
|visitors = 237 964 (2015){{cite web|title=Besöksrekord på landets museer|url=http://www.sverigesmuseer.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Besöken-2015_rikspress.pdf|publisher=Riksförbundet Sveriges museer|access-date=22 November 2016}}
|director = Sanne Houby-Nielsen
|publictransit = Metro: Karlaplan metro station 14px
Bus: 44.
Tram: Djurgården Line
Ferry: Djurgården ferry
|website = {{URL|http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/en|nordiskamuseet.se}}
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File:Nordiska Museet Mars 2013.jpg
File:Nordiska Museet 18 juli 2006.jpg
The Nordic Museum ({{langx|sv|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. It was, for a long time, part of the museum, until 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 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
File:Nordiska museet planritning.jpg
The present building, the design of Isak Gustaf Clason, was completed in 1907 after a 19-year construction process. 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 (126 meters long) 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.{{cite book | author-link=Bengt O H Johansson | chapter=Norra innerstaden | title=Guide till Stockholms arkitektur | author=Johansson, Bengt O H | year=1999 | edition=2nd | publisher=Arkitektur Förlag AB | location=Stockholm | page=42 | isbn=91-86050-41-9}}
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 approximately 6 million photographs dating from the 1840s until today.{{cite web|title=Collections|url=http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/en/collections|website=Nordiska museet|access-date=11 October 2014}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/om-samlingarna/fotografiska-samlingar|title=Fotografiska samlingar|website=Nordiska museet|access-date=2016-11-22}} The museum research library contains 3,800 shelf meters of literature from the 16th century and onward.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/biblioteket/bibliotekets-samlingar|title=Bibliotekets samlingar|website=Nordiska museet|access-date=2016-11-22}}
Gallery
=Exterior=
File:Nordiska museet fasaddetaljer 2012a.jpg|Sculpture on the western gable
File:Nordiska museet fasaddetaljer 2012b.jpg|Spire
File:Nordiska museet fasaddetaljer 2012d.jpg|Onion dome
File:Nordiska museet fasaddetaljer 2012e.jpg|Gilt scuppers
File:Nordic Museum, Stockholm, street view.jpg|Street View
File:Nordiska-museet Stockholm-Fassadendetail-DSC 0087w.jpg|alt=From south |From south
=Interior=
Nordiska museet entrehall 2008.jpg|Entrance hall with Gustav Vasa
Nordiska Museet Mars 2013.jpg|Main hall
Nordiska museet 2008d.jpg|Roof lantern
Nordiska museet 2008e.jpg|Exhibition on the history of dining table arrangements
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.nordiskamuseet.se/en}}
- [https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/nordiska-museet?hl=en Nordic Museum] within Google Arts & Culture
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{{Museums in Stockholm}}
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Category:Ethnographic museums in Europe
Category:History museums in Sweden
Category:Cultural heritage of Sweden
Category:Listed buildings in Stockholm