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The Skog Tapestry VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
This once hung in the
wooden church at Skog Practical Information
in northern Sweden. It is Narvavägen 13–17.
one of the museum’s Map 3 F4. Tel 08-51 95 56 00.
oldest textile treasures. Open Jun–Aug: 10am–5pm daily;
Sep–May: 11am–5pm Tue–Sun,
11am–8pm Wed. Closed 24, 25 &
31 Dec. 7 ^ The Gold Room.
- = ∑ historiska.se
Transport
 Karlaplan;  Östermalmstorg,
v 7 to Djurgårdsbron. @ Hop-
on-hop-off; 67, 69, 76.
Baroque Hall
. Maria from Viklau
This Madonna figure on the
upper floor is the best-preserved
example from Sweden’s early
medieval period. The colourful
wooden sculpture is richly gilded.
Gallery Guide
The exhibitions are divided
History of Sweden chronologically on two floors with the
prehistoric section on the ground floor
Stairs descending and the Middle Ages on the upper floor,
to the Gold Room where there is also a Baroque Hall. In
the base ment, reached by a staircase
from the entrance hall, is the Gold
Main entrance Room with priceless exhibits from
prehistoric times to the medieval period.
. The Gold Room
Since the early 1990s the museum’s many The Elisabeth
priceless gold artifacts have been on Reliquary was origi-
show in Guldrummet (the Gold Room), a nally a drinking goblet,
700-sq m (7,550-sq ft) underground vault which was mounted
built with 250 tons of reinforced concrete with gold and precious
to ensure security. The room is in two stones in the 11th cen-
circular sections. The inner section houses tury. In about 1230 a
the main collection, with 50 kg (110 lb) of silver cover was added
gold treasures and 250 kg (550 lb) of silver to enclose the skull of
from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. St Elisabeth. In 1631 it
was seized as a trophy
for Sweden during the
Thirty Years’ War.

The Gold Collars were found between 1827 and
1864; the three-ringed collar in a stone quarry in
eastern Sweden, the five-ringed in a ditch on the
island of Öland, and the seven-ringed in a mound
of stones in the county of Västergötland. The underground Gold Room in Historiska museet

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