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The Skog Tapestry
This once hung in the VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
wooden church at Skog in Practical Information
northern Sweden. It is one Narvavägen 13–17.
of the museum’s oldest Map 2 F4.
textile treasures.
Tel 08-519 556 00.
Open Sep–May: 11am–5pm Tue–
Textile Chamber Sun (to 8pm Wed); Jun–Aug:
10am–6pm daily. Closed 24, 25
& 31 Dec and some holidays.
8 - = 7 ^
∑ historiska.se
Transport
Baroque Hall @ 67.  Karlaplan.

Gallery Guide
The exhibitions are divided
chronologically on two floors
with the prehistoric section on
the ground floor and the Middle
Ages on the upper floor, where
there is also a Baroque Hall. In
the basement, reached by a
staircase from the entrance hall,
is the Gold Room with stunning
Stairs descending to . Maria from Viklau gold and silver objects.
the Gold Room This gilded wooden Madonna
figure is the best-preserved Key
example from Sweden’s early Prehistoric Era
medieval period. It is found Middle Ages and Baroque
Main entrance in the medieval exhibition
on the upper floor. Temporary exhibitions
Vikings
History of Sweden
Non-exhibition space

. The Gold Room The Elisabeth Reliquary
Since the early 1990s the museum’s many was originally a drinking
goblet which was
priceless gold artifacts have been on show mounted with gold
in Guldrummet (the Gold Room), a 700 sq m and precious stones
(7,500 sq ft) underground vault built with in the 11th century.
250 tons of reinforced concrete to ensure In about 1230 a silver
security. The room is in two circular sections. cover was added to
The inner section houses the main enclose the skull of
collection, with 50 kg (110 lb) of gold St Elisabeth. Sweden
treasures and 250 kg (550 lb) of silver from seized it in Wurzburg
the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages.
in 1631, as a trophy in
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 hanging on a spike in a barn. The underground Gold Room in Historiska Museet

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