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ArkDes, housed in the Neo-Classical former naval drill hall
1 Östasiatiska who was both interested in In the permanent exhibi tion,
museet and knowledge able about over a hundred models guide
archaeology. He eventually visitors through a thousand
Tyghusplan. Map 5 D2. Tel 010-456 12 bequeathed to the museum his years of building. These cover
00.  Kungsträdgården. @ 65. own large collec tion of ancient categories from the oldest and
4 Djurgårdsfärja. Open 11am–8pm Chinese arts and crafts. simplest of wooden houses
Tue, 11am–5pm Wed–Sun. 8 ^ 7 The museum has been on to the highly varied building
= ∑ varldskulturmuseerna.se
Skeppsholmen since 1963, techniques and architectural
It is not unusual for Western when it was moved into a styles of the present day.
capitals to have a museum restored house that had It is fascinating to switch
devoted to art and archaeo logy been built in 1699–1700 as a from an almost 2,000-year-old
from China, Japan, Korea and depot for Karl XII’s bodyguard. longhouse to a Konsum
India. But it is not every supermarket, encountering
museum of Far Eastern in between examples of
antiquities that, like Östasiatiska 2 Moderna museet architecture in Gothenburg
museet, can claim one of the See pp82–3. dating from the 17th century
world’s foremost collections of to the 1930s and the Årsta
Chinese art outside Asia. bridge situated to the south
On a visit to the Yellow River 3 ArkDes of Stockholm.
valley in China in the early 1920s, Exercisplan. Map 5 E3. Tel 08-587 270 Models of historic architec-
the Swedish geologist Johan 00.  Kungsträd gården. @ 65. tural works worldwide, from
Gunnar Andersson discovered 4 Djurgårdsfärja. Open 10am–8pm 2000 BC up to the present
hitherto unknown dwellings Tue, 10am–6pm Wed–Sun. 8 by day, are also on show.
and graves containing objects arrangement (for a fee). & ^ 7 The museum offers an
dating from the New Stone Age. 0 - = 9 ∑ arkdes.se ambitious programme – albeit
He was allowed by the only in Swedish – alongside
Chinese to take a rich selection The Swedish Centre for the permanent and temporary
of finds back to Sweden, and Architecture and Design shares exhibitions, including lectures,
these formed the basis for the an entrance hall and restaurant study days, walks around
museum, founded in 1926. A with the Moderna museet. It has the city, guided tours, school
key figure in its development also taken over its earlier home, visits and family events on
was the then Crown Prince, later the one-time naval drill hall. Sunday afternoons.
to become King Gustaf VI Adolf,
The Skeppsholmen Cannons
A salute battery of four 57-mm rapid-fire cannons is sited on
Skeppsholmen and is still in use. Salutes are fired to mark national
and royal special
occasions at noon on
weekdays and 1pm at
weekends: 28 January –
the King’s name day;
30 April – the King’s
birthday; 6 June –
Sweden’s National Day;
14 July – Crown Princess
Victoria’s birthday; 8
August – the Queen’s
name day; 23 December
Head of a woman, dating from the 12th – the Queen’s birthday. The salute battery on Skeppsholmen
century, at the Östasiatiska museet

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