The Nordic Museum, known as Nordiska museet in Swedish is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. The museum is dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age until the contemporary period. The museum was founded in the late 19th century by Artur Hazelius, who also founded the open-air museum Skansen. The museum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Stockholm.
The Museum was originally called the Scandinavian ethnographic collection in 1873 and came to be known as the Nordic Museum from the year 1880. Hazelius bought or managed to get donations of objects for Nordic Museum. The objects included furniture, clothes, toys etc. from all over Sweden and the other Nordic countries. He was mainly interested in peasant culture but his successors increasingly started to collect objects reflecting bourgeois and urban lifestyles as well.
Although the project did not initially get the funding from the government as Hazelius had hoped but he received widespread support and donations. By the year 1898, the Society for the promotion of the Nordic Museum had 4,525 members. The Swedish parliament allocated some money for the museums in the year 1891 and doubled the amount in 1900, the year before the death of Hazelius.
The present building that stands today was designed by Isak Gustaf Clason and was completed in the year 1907. Originally, the Nordic museum was intended to be a national monument housing the material inheritance of the nation. It was, however, only half-completed for the Stockholm Exposition in the year 1897. 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. If Swedish history and culture interests you then this is the place to be. There can not be a better way to know the city. The rich collections in the Nordic museum will give you an idea of the past, history and culture of Sweden and its country folks. Take your whole family for a tour to this museum and enjoy a wonderful time.
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