The Royal Armoury s 30 Years Anniversary at the

The Royal Armoury´s 30 Years Anniversary at the Royal Palace in 2008 A winding Road to the final Goal

The 12 Premises for the Royal Armoury 1628 - 1978 n n n The Castle of Three Crowns The Summer House of Queen Christina The Incomparable Palace (Makalös) The Fredrikshov Palace The Greenhous (Orangeriet) The Church of Riddarholmen The Prince´s Palace The Hotel of Brunkeberg The National Museum of Fine Arts The north west Wing of the Royal Palace The Nordic Museum The north east Wing of the Royal Palace, the cellar

Rudolf Cederström Head of the Royal Armoury 1904 -1944

The Nordic Museum in 1906

A perpetual Issue: New Premises for the Royal Armoury! n n n The old school of Forestial Studies in the Nobel Park in 1916? The Barracks of the Position Artillery, Storgatan, 1929 – 1932? The Palace of Fredrikshov in the 1920 ties? The Office of Coin and Register, Hantverkargatan? …. . ?

Swedens´ oldest Museum in the Palace of Fredrikshov?

n 1928

1932 The Memory of Gustavus Adolphus dead at Lützen in 1632

The Maritime Museum opened in 1938 New Museums n The Maritim Museum, opens in 1938 n Historiska museet invigs 1939 n Kriget bryter ut hösten 1939 n Livrustkammaren evakueras …

The Museum of Swedish National Antiquities opened in 1939

…and the Second World War broke out n The Royal Armoury was evacuated to the landscape of the National Myth – Dalecarlia …

Torsten Lenk Head of the Royal Armoury 1944 -1957

n The Wardrobe of King Gustaf In Memory of King Gustaf V in 1951 – a modern king

…maybe new premises at Skeppsholmen in 1954?

1968 -1969 n Concerning Premises of the Royal Armoury the National Office of Works suggests to the 1965 Years´ Experts of Museum and Exhibition: New premises in the Royal Palace

… At last: 10 Years later …

Also the Music Museum opened in 1978

Swedens´ oldest museum collection As a Modern Museum, an Historical Theater The Royal Armoury 1978 -2008 30 Years in the Royal Palace

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