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Sun Chariot 6
The unique Sun
Chariot or Solvognen
(right) was dug up in
1902 by a farmer who
was ploughing his field.
This 3,400­year­old arti­
fact from the Bronze Age
shows a wheeled horse
pulling a large sun disk
gilded on one side.
China, Japan
Nationalmuseet Key to Floorplan 9
Floorplan Ground floor and the Far
First floor East
Second floor The Far East is well
Third floor represented in this
marvellous collection
that includes Japanese
Prehistoric
Denmark and the laquerwork, fabulously
Viking Age costumed Samurai
3 warriors, replete with
weaponry, and beautiful
State Imperial Dragon robes.
Rooms
8 Oak Burial
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Coffins
Room 117 Seven Bronze­Age oak
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coffins (below), dating
Denmark’s back to 1,400 BC, occupy
Oldest Coin the ground floor. The
2 Egtved grave, holding the
body of a fully clad young
Gundestrup woman, is an extraor­
Cauldron dinary exhibit.
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9 6
China, Sun
Japan and Chariot
the Far East
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Oak Burial
Coffins
Inuit
Culture
7 4 Cylinder
Perspective Table
State Rooms
Inuit Culture
7 8
This collection
The State Rooms
from Greenland show­ date back to the time
cases the skill and crea­ when this building was a
tive ingenuity of the royal palace. They have
people of the frozen been well preserved and
North. The displays are virtually intact from
include clothing, such as the period 1743–4. Next­
embroidered anoraks door, the Great Hall is
and boots, plus toys and adorned with the original
watercolours of daily life. Flemish tapestries.

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