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THE NORTH MUSEUM AND SKANSEN.
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written, the general catalogue of the Museum counts 85,000 numbers, many
of which embrace several — sometimes as many as a hundred — objects.
Besides these, there is the library and the archives, and large collections of
engravings, portraits (of these alone over 25,000), coins, counters, postage
stamps, etc., which collections are not recorded in the general catalogue.
The property of the museum is as yet deposited in separate and
temporary quarters, but a fine structure is already to a considerable part
erected, and will doubtless in a short time be fully completed. Although
it enjoys a State subvention, the North Museum is an independent
institution with its own Board of Directors, and, next to the
indefatigable energy of its founder, it owes its existence chiefly to the patriotic
generosity of private persons.
From the Skansen Open-air Museum in Stockholm.
The museum contains objects from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland,
Germany; from Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Russian Lappland, and from Finland,
the Baltic provinces, and Greenland, which was inhabited by Scandinavians as
early as a thousand years ago. Foremost among the different sections of the
museum, should be mentioned the Scandinavian Ethnographical Section. In
connection with this group, we may mention the Archeological Section, which
contains fossil objects not only from Scandinavia but also from Lappland, Green
land, and some even from Finland.
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