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Looks and 7000 MSS. (admission, see p. 322). Among its treasures
may be mentioned the Gigas Librorum, being a collection of 300
large charters and deeds on parchment, dating from the 9-13th
centuries; and a Latin Bible with notes made by Luther in 1529;
both taken by the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War, the
former from Prague, the latter from Wittenberg. — Behind the
museum, in the middle of the park, there was erected in 1885 an
imposing Monument to Charles v. Linnæus, consisting of a colossal
figure of the great botanist, surrounded by allegorical statues of
Zoology, Medicine, and Agriculture, cast in bronze after models
by Frithiof Kjellberg. Near the S.W. side of the Linné Park is the
entrance to a tunnel, 275 yds. long, connecting the David
BagarenGatan with the Luntmakare-Gatan (toll 3 ö.).
The National Museum.
At the S. end of the Blasieholm (p. 330) rises the ^National
Museum (PL F, 4), designed by Stiller of Berlin, and erected in
185065, a handsome edifice in the Renaissance style, with
round-arched Venetian windows, and a portal of greenish Swedish marble.
Over the portal are placed medallion-reliefs of six famous Swedish
scholars and artists: Fogelberg, the sculptor; Ehrenstrahl, the
painter; Linnæus, the botanist; Tegner, the poet; Wallin, the
Orientalist; and Berzelius, the chemist; and statues of Tessin,
the architect, and Sergei, the sculptor. The museum comprises
the following collections: on the Ground Floor the Historical
Museum and the Cabinet of Coins; on the First Floor the
Art-Industrial Collections and antique and modern Sculptures, on the
Second Floor the Picture Gallery and the Drawings and Engravings.
Admission, see p. 321; catalogues in the different departments,
and at the entrance.
On entering the handsome vestibule, where sticks and
umbrellas are given up on the left (2 ö. each), we observe three
colossal statues of northern deities in marble by Fogelberg: below, on
the right, is Odin, on the left Thor, and above them Baldur.
Opposite the entrance a few steps descend to the —
Ground-Flooh, which contains the admirably arranged —
**Historical Museum, or Museum of Swedish Antiquities, an
interesting collection of great value, founded in the 17th cent.,
and recently much extended by the efforts of Hr. B. E.
Hildebrand. It now consists of all kinds of objects for domestic,
agricultural, and ornamental uses, weapons, implements, etc., from
the prehistoric period of Swedish culture down to the present time.
A glass-door leads into the Vestibule, where a copy of the excellent
Catalogue by O. ifontelius, in English, may he purchased (2 kr.). The
The black figures on white ground indicate the order in which the objects
may be conveniently inspected.
Rooms I. & II. Objects of the Flist Pekiod, a prehistoric era when
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