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THE NORTH MUSEUM AND SKANSEN.

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Besides the aforesaid museums, most of the Swedish State colleges
for facilitating instruction in the natural sciences, have herbariums,
collections of stuffed animals, minerals, and other natural objects, some
of which are quite important.

A private natural history museum of rather great interest is the
Biological Museum of Stockholm, founded in 1893. This institution,
which in its special line has no equal in Europe or elsewhere, contains
an almost complete collection of the mammals and birds of Scandinavia,
with about 3,000 stuffed specimens, and, by a panoptic combination of
forest, mountain, and sea, shows how each kind of animals appears in its
natural surroundings. This museum is arranged by G. Kolthoff, the
taxidermist, assisted by Docent C. Bowallius and B. Liljefors, the
animal-painter.

The North Museum and Skansen.

Self-knowledge
presupposes, in the nation as in the
individual, a certain degree
of maturity, and the
sciences named ethnology,
folklore, history of civilization,
etc. are young in comparison
with others, and have in
many places, likewise as in
Sweden, not yet succeeded
in asserting their rights in
all respects. But by means
of the energetic efforts of a
private person, Artur
Hazelius (1833/1901), Sweden
has taken the first place
among nations, in
preserving objects illustrating the
development of its own
people and in this
connection also of neighbouring
peoples.

In 1872, Hazelius
commenced his work of
collecting, and as early as 1873
he could open the first
section of his museum to the public, although at that time he could not even
himself foresee the magnitude which this museum was going to assume.
The museum was then called the Scandinavian Ethnographical Collection

Artur Hazelius.

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