Medelhavsmuseet

Medelhavsmuseet

Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm
Established 1954[1]
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Coordinates 59°16′46.24″N 18°4′2.88″E / 59.2795111°N 18.0674667°E / 59.2795111; 18.0674667

Medelhavsmuseet (Mediterranean Museum) is a museum in Stockholm focused around collections of mainly ancient objects from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Its English name is The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. The museum was formed in 1954 when the Egyptian Museum and the Cyprus Collection were combined. The Egyptian Museum had been created in 1928 from artifacts collected in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century while the Cyprus Collection was the result of the excavations of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Cyprus collection in the museum is the largest outside Cyprus and of great scholarly value. A new gallery of Cypriote antiquities sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and designed by White Architects was opened in January 2009. Besides Egypt and Cyprus the museum also holds collections of Greek and Roman antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities from Shah Tepe, Luristan bronzes and Islamic art.

The museum has been located in the Gustav Horn palace, Gustav Adolfs Torg, Fredsgatan 2, Stockholm since 1982.

References

  1. ↑ "Medelhavsmuseet". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 March 2012. (subscription required)
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