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northern museum and skansen.
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of engravings, portraits (these alone are over 25 000), coins, counters,
postage stamps, etc., which collections are not recorded in the general
catalogue. The galleries of the museum have been since the summer of 1907
largely accessible to the public in the new buildings on Lejonslätten; at
present there are over 100 exhibition rooms. Since 1909 the collections
of the Royal Armoury have been placed in the buildings of the Northern
Museum. Although it enjoys a State subvention, the Northern 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.
Artur Hazelius.
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 undoubtedly mentioned the Scandinavian Ethnographical
Section. In connection with this group, we may mention the Archeological
Section, which contains treasure-trove not only from Scandinavia, but also from
Lappland, Greenland, and some even from Finland.
Next to the collection of peasant-objects ranks, for amplitude and value, the
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