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Poster from Stockholmskällan, showing a suicide note from 1820, Stockholm City Archives. The heading Historia på riktigt! translates as "History for real!". Stockholmskällan is a database with over 30 000 archive items related to history of Stockholm , made available as a website since 2006 and freely accessible to the public.
The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as Gamla stan, the Stockholm Old Town. Stockholm's raison d'être always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the largest city in the country.
The woman was buried in a 40-60 cm wide pit about 1.20 m deep in a semi-sitting reclining position. Until the 1970s, the skeleton was considered to belong to a man, but is now after long discussion considered female and as burial gifts there was a flint-edged bone point (formerly called bird arrow) and a chisel-like bone tool of split pipe bone of moose, with one end having the bone end ...
The museum is governed by the Cultural Affairs and Sports Division of the City of Stockholm. The city museum, the Museum of Medieval Stockholm and Stockholmia Förlag (which publishes books on Stockholm and Stockholm's history) operate as one department within the division. All political decisions are made by the specialist committee for ...
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The Swedish History Museum (Swedish: Historiska museet or Statens historiska museum) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with preserving Swedish historical items as well as ...
Fotografiska museet , a separate Stockholm museum of photography, operated from 1971 to 1998, when it was integrated into Moderna museet. Fotografiska Tallinn in Tallinn, Estonia opened in June 2019. [5] Fotografiska New York [6] opened in December 2019 [7] at the former church mission house in Gramercy, a historical landmark building.
Skansen (Swedish: [ˈskǎnːsɛn]; "the Sconce") is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.