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82  ST OCKHOLM AREA B Y AREA

Arkitektur och designcentrum, housed in the Neo-Classical former naval drill hall
1 Östasiatiska become King Gustav VI Adolf, with Moderna museet. It has
museet who was both interested in also reclaimed its earlier Neo-
and knowledgeable about
Classical home, a one-time
Tyghusplan. Map 4 D2. Tel 010-456 archaeology. Later, he naval drill hall.
12 00.  Kungsträdgården. @ 65. bequeathed to the museum In the permanent exhibition,
4 Djurgårdsfärja. Open 11am–7pm his own large collection of more than 100 architectural
Tue–Sun. 8 by appointment only. ancient Chinese arts and crafts. models guide visitors through
= 7 ∑ ostasiatiskamuseet.se The museum has been on the history of Swedish building.
Skeppsholmen since 1963, They include the oldest and
It is not unusual for Western when it was moved into a simplest of wooden houses
capitals to have a museum restored house which had been to the highly sophisticated
devoted to art and archaeology built in 1699–1700 as a depot construction techniques and
from China, Japan, Korea and for Karl XII’s bodyguard. innovative styles of the
India. But it is not every Museum present day.
of Far Eastern Antiquities that, It is fascinating to move from
like Östasiatiska museet, can 2 Moderna museet an almost 2,000-year-old long-
claim one of the world’s See pp84–5. house to a modern supermarket,
foremost collections of Chinese interspersed with examples of
art outside Asia. architecture in Gothenburg from
On a visit to the Yellow River 3 Arkitektur och the 17th century to the 1930s.
valley in China in the early designcentrum Models of historic
1920s, the Swedish geologist architectural works worldwide,
Johan Gunnar Andersson Exercisplan 4. Map 4 E3. Tel 08-587 from 2000 BC up to the present
discovered hitherto unknown 270 00.  Kungsträdgården. @ 65. day, are also on show.
dwellings and graves containing 4 Djurgårdsfärja. Open 10am–8pm The museum offers an
Tue & Fri, 10am–6pm Wed– Thu & Sat –
objects dating from the New Sun. & (free up to age 19; free for ambitious programme – albeit
Stone Age. everyone 6–8pm Fri; combined ticket only in Swedish – alongside
He was allowed to take a with Moderna museet.) 8 in English, the permanent and temporary
selection of items back to by appointment only. 9 - 0 = exhibitions, including lectures,
Sweden, and these formed 7 ^ ∑ arkdes.se study days, city walks, guided
the basis for the museum, tours, school visits and
founded in 1926. A key figure The Swedish Architecture and family events on Sunday
in its development was the Design Centre shares an afternoons, which involve
then Crown Prince, later to entrance hall and restaurant model-building.
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 12 noon on week-
days 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 – the
Queen’s birthday.
Chinese Bodhisattva in limestone (c.530), The salute battery on Skeppsholmen
Östasiatiska museet
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp284–5 and pp294–5

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