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1 Historiska museet
Upper floor
The Swedish History Museum, Historiska museet, was opened in
1943. It was designed by Bengt Romare and Georg Sherman.
Bror Marklund (1907–77) was responsible for the decoration
around the entrance and the richly detailed bronze gateways
depicting events in early Swedish history. The museum originally
made its name with its exhibits from the Viking era, as well as its
out standing collections from the early Middle Ages. Contem porary
church textiles are also on show. Many of Historiska museet’s gold
treasures have been gathered together to form one of Stockholm’s
most remarkable sights, Guldrummet (the Gold Room).

Courtyard
Bronze Age Find
This Bronze Age artifact, thought
to be a percussion instrument,
was discovered in a bog in
southern Sweden in 1847.

Ground floor

The Bäckaskog Woman Rosen-gården
The 155 cm (5 ft) tall
Bäckaskog woman lived
around 5000 BC. She died
at the age of 40–50 and
was buried sitting in a
cramped pit.

The Viking Era
This is the world’s largest permanent
. The Alunda Elk Viking exhibition, with more than
This 21 cm (8 inch) stone axe, discovered in 1920 at Alunda 4,000 artifacts. The Vikings were
in central Sweden, resembles an elk’s head. It is a ceremonial most famous as warriors, but they
axe, probably made in Finland or Karelia in around 2000 BC. were also keen traders.
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp284–5 and pp294–5

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