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48(5 iv. education and mental culture.
Interior of a Boom, Halland (Skansen).
Section of the Upper Classes1, which comprises a series of Swedish furnished
apartments of varying dates, and a large quantity of objects illustrating the
mode of life of the higher classes during different periods. This department
offers at the same time a splendid opportunity for studying different styles of
art, and their development in Sweden. The Guild Section2 of the Museum is
very important as providing means of comparison with other lands. There is
also a ceramic section containing mostly Swedish, some Danish faiences and
Scandinavian earthenware, a collection of glass, one of uniforms and weapons,,
a naval section, an ecclesiastical section, a section for textile art, one for musical
instruments, one for instruments of punishment, one for the fire-service and
the-police, one for mementos of eminent Swedish men and women, one for objects
of Jewish cult, and so on; and the very rich pharmaceutic collection should not
be forgotten. These various collections, some of which are comparatively small,
have not yet been all exhibited. Most of them, however, are to be accessible,,
when the basement of the south wing can be thrown open to the public.
Not content with having founded the museum above described in outline,.
Hazelius began in 1891 (close to the spot where the new building of
the-Northern Museum was in course of erection) to lay out an Open-air
Museum which forms a kind of annex to the former, but has a distinct
character of its own epoch-making in its line. For the main museum he had
already procured complete interiors of peasant-homes, and these — by
showing the ethnographical objects in their natural every-day surroundings-
1 Högre stånds avdelning. — 2 Skråavdelning.
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