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 Swedish Museum of National Antiquities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska museet) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden that is responsible for Swedish cultural history and art from the Stone Age to the 16th century.
The museum is known for its so called Gold Room where a lot of gold objects is kept as part of the exhibition.
It's also the place to go if your interested in the Vikings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_Museum_of_National_Antiquities   (119 words)

  
 NordArk / Upphovsmän - Museer
The Museum of National Antiquities is responsible for archaeology in Sweden.
Swedish central museums (which include museums with special responsibility) are state authorities, and the county museums are also supported by various constellations of the state, municipalities, county councils and foundations.
According to Nationalencyclopedin, a museum is a "public or private institution containing a systematically obtained collection of objects, pictures, records, etc. within a particular subject field".
www.hgo.se /nordark/museums2.htm   (790 words)

  
 government agencies in sweden
Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, or Statens historiska museer.
Swedish National Museums of World Culture, or Statens museer för världskultur.
Swedish National Museum of Cultural History, or Nordiska museet.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Government_Agencies_in_Sweden.html   (3704 words)

  
 Textiles and Weaving Links
The Textile Chamber of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities
moas.atlantia.sca.org /topics/text.htm   (384 words)

  
 National Antiquities AntiquesIX.com
Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet): Visit TripAdvisor, your source for the web's best unbiased reviews and articles about Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Travel guide to Museum of National Antiquities in Sweden with information on sightseeing, tours, travel, transport, trains, parking, opening times, cost, admission, telephone, address and photos...
The offices and discovered antiquities were moved to the new building, after which...
antiquesix.com /antiques/national-antiquities.html   (694 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums in the USA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA. The Muscarelle Museum of Art on the campus of the College of William and Mary is a public institution accredited by the American Association of Museums.
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT. Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center serves as a major resource for scholars and the general public on Native American histories and cultures, and is one of the most innovative and comprehensive centers of its kind in the United States.
Colorado University Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO. The CU Museum is located on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder.
www.museum.state.il.us /vlmp/usa.html   (14153 words)

  
 Snow White and The Madness of Truth
Snow White and The Madness of Truth (Swedish: Snövit och sanningens vansinne) is a work of art by Israeli-born Swedish composer/musician Dror Feiler (music) and his Swedish wife artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler (visuals), in the Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska muséet) in Stockholm, Sweden.
To the Swedish media, he said it was done in the heat of the moment, but to Israeli media he said the attack was planned before he even had seen the artwork.
Several days later, on January 20, Dror Feiler appeared in Nyhetsmorgon on Swedish TV4 (Zvi Mazel was invited but declined to participate) and explained that the white boat symbolized truth and he said that if you believe you have the 100% truth, you will float in a pool of blood.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Snow-White-and-The-Madness-of-Truth.htm   (936 words)

  
 Learn more about List of museums in the online encyclopedia.
The list of museums is a link page for any museum anywhere.
Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, Illinois
See also: Museum, Science museum, Art gallery, List of transport museums
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_museums.html   (194 words)

  
 MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
Koutsoupis told Craxton the figurine was commissioned by an antiquities dealer called Zoumboulaki, who sent him photographs of a figure of a harp player from the national museum in Athens.
Another trend exemplified by the antiquities furor is what Beijing-based arts writer Bruce Doar calls "a mood for cultural restitution that's going on everywhere." With a growing number of nations pressing for the return of antiquities held in the West, the boundaries of political correctness are shifting in their favor.
The three paintings were not insured by the National Museum, which has more than 15,000 paintings and sculptures, because like many other state museums and galleries it cannot afford the extremely high premiums.
www.museum-security.org /01/001.html   (4495 words)

  
 CABINET BACKS SWEDISH ENVOY
According to The New York Times, Mazel was among several hundred guests invited to the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm on Friday for an exhibit linked to a coming international conference on genocide sponsored by Sweden.
At the museum, however, the Ambassador was confronted with "Snow White and the Madness of Truth," an exhibit created by expatriate Israeli artist Dror Feiler and his Swedish wife, depicting a serene photo of a smiling female suicide bomber floating on a blood red pool of water.
In the eyes museum director, Kristian Berg, the exhibit is not offensive.
www.icej.org /cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2004/01/19/505493494   (641 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Israel diplomat vandalizes Sweden exhibit
The demand came a day after Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, vandalized the exhibit at the Museum of National Antiquities by throwing a spotlight at it.
Israel demanded Saturday that a Swedish art museum take down an exhibit depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber, claiming it violates the terms of an upcoming conference on preventing genocide.
Museum director Kristian Berg said the ambassador's attack "struck a discordant note" with the theme of the upcoming conference.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/01/17/israel_diplomat_vandalizes_sweden_exhibit?mode=PF   (541 words)

  
 Mazel's Muzzle
On Friday, Mazel was asked to leave the Museum of National Antiquities after throwing a mounted spotlight at the courtyard exhibit in an attempt to damage it.
Museum director Kristian Berg said the ambassador's attack "struck a discordant note" with the theme of the conference.
Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum, Doron Luria, said Sunday that he understood Mazel and that the artwork was an inferior piece of provocation.
www.annoy.com /covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100570   (833 words)

  
 TCMN: Museums Around Sweden
If official Swedish and English designations are not indicated there, translations have been provided in a form intended to be maximally useful for the Virtual Library museum search facility.
One of three national museums with primary responsibility for the art sector.
The national museum with primary responsibility for the ethnography sector.
www.mos.org /tcm/html/resources/museums/museums-swd.html   (534 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau.
Union of the French national museum photographs catalogue: 200,000 images from national and main regional museums.
icom.museum /vlmp/world.html   (1076 words)

  
 GBIF portal: Places to visit
The Museum of National Antiquities in Sweden is responsible for Swedish cultural history and art from the Stone Age to the 16th century and houses a much appreciated Viking exhibition.
She has since been restored and can now be seen with her complete lower rigging at the Vasa Museum - the only museum of its kind in the world.
Designed by one of the world's most distinguished contemporary architects, Rafael Moneo, The museum houses one of Europe's finest collections of modern art.
www.gbif.org /GB11/collectionsvisits   (575 words)

  
 EchoPress.com
The stone was shipped in early October to the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden and will be on display through the end of January..
A Swedish geo-chemist, Runo Lofvendahl, will recreate parts of the testing already completed by geologist Scott Wolter using samples of the stone provided by the Runestone Museum, according to LuAnn Patton, the museum’s executive director.
This spring, the Runestone Museum will be having an exhibit of Viking artifacts from the museum in Sweden as an exchange for the use of the Runestone, Patton noted.
www.echopress.com /article.cfm?Article_Id=21520   (490 words)

  
 FSO: Global Analysis with J. R. Nyquist "Europe vs. America and Israel? " 01/29/2004
The Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, was recently kicked out of Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities after he vandalized a piece of “art” that glamorized Islamic terrorism.
Sweden will not have Arab immigrants bombing its Museum of National Antiquities.
And modern legislation being what it is, with differing rates of taxation, with fluctuating national currencies and subsidies, one is left to search in vain for the Seven Cities of Gold, the Fountain of Youth and free trade.
www.financialsense.com /stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2004/0129.html   (1444 words)

  
 Martin Luther King Vandalized Slavery Exhibit
The Swedish Museum of National Antiquities and its director, Kristian Berg, agree with him, explaining that "violence against art is never defensible."
New York elites flocked to the Brooklyn Museum's 1999 exhibition entitled "Sensation." Displaying works like Chris Ofili's dung-bedecked Madonna, it was more of a Christianity-debasing, feces extravaganza yet few possessed the moral compass to denounce it.
As far as we know, Reverend Martin Luther King never confronted a museum exhibit venerating slave owners and had he done so, we have no way of knowing whether he would have vandalized it.
www.intellectualconservative.com /article3056.html   (908 words)

  
 Stockholm hotels from €44: Museums and sightseeing, Stockholm.
- The Museum of Antiquities of Gustav III
The Stockholm Royal Palace Museum with the Royal Apartments, The Hall of State and the Apartments of the Orders of Chivalry
The card is issued upon check-in for the entire length of stay, the arrival and departure days and all days in between and comes with a free 138-page multi-lingual Guide Book.
www.destination-stockholm.com /sights   (272 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums - Art Galleries
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Museum of the Mind by Dr. Hugo, Antwerp, Belgium.
Images for art history at the Australian National University including National Gallery of Australia information held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
icom.museum /vlmp/galleries.html   (1450 words)

  
 Sweden / Home Page
A new museum holds finds from extensive excavations at the site, which is about 18 miles from Stockholm.
Presenting European masters from 1500 to 1900 and Swedish painters and sculptors.
A collection of some 150 authentic houses and buildings dating to the 19th century or earlier.
www.geographia.com /etc/Sweden/Swedena.htm   (215 words)

  
 Artifact: Full Record for Museum of National Antiquities, Sweden
Description: The Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm is an archaeological museum responsible for Swedish cultural history and art from the Stone Age to the 16th century.
Organisations: Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden) (Museum of National Antiquities)
Artifact: Full Record for Museum of National Antiquities, Sweden
www.artifact.ac.uk /displayoai.php?id=2915   (160 words)

  
 Keyword
Israel downgraded its representation at the conference after the Museum of National Antiquities refused to remove a display showing a picture of Islamic Jihad bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed herself and 21 bystanders in an Oct. 4 suicide attack in Haifa, Israel....
The man in charge of the exhibition at the Museum of National Antiquities said he will take down posters showing a Palestinian suicide bomber that were posted in 26 subway stations throughout Stockholm to advertise the exhibit.
STOCKHOLM- A Swedish museum official said Tuesday that he will remove posters for an art exhibition that sparked a diplomatic spat with Israel, but said the display at the root of the controversy will remain.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=zvimazel   (3043 words)

  
 The Cellar - 1/19/2004: Swedish art provokes Israeli ambassador
The Israel's ambassador to Sweden was kicked out of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities after he attacked the above artwork.
I felt that I was standing in front of a horror, I felt that I was standing in front of an exhibit that, while it was in an historic and big museum in the heart of Europe, was glorifying genocide.
The other artist, Feiler's Swedish wife Gunilla Skoeld Feiler, told daily Expressen that the work was "not a glorification of the suicide bomber."
cellar.org /printthread.php?t=4820   (1307 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Swedish Museum of National Antiquities houses the entire 'Mästermyr' find, which includes a 120-150 mm long and 10-15 mm wide iron object, with a small, flattened hook at one end.
According to the researchers at Roskilde museum, this steel was used solely for spokeshaves.
This small tool, termed a 'moulding iron' by the museum, is probably the one we were looking for.
www.alevikingatid.nu /websiteengelska/website/articles.htm   (5111 words)

  
 Friedl Dicker Brandeis - Museum of Tolerance
Stockholm, Sweden - (Swedish Museum of National Antiquities)
The works are compiled from The Getty Museum, Bauhaus Museum, Vienna Museum of Applied Arts, Jewish Museum of Prague, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Beit Terezin; from over twenty private collections, and from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has the largest American collection of Friedl Dicker Brandeis' works and children's drawing from Terezin.
   Born in Vienna and deported to Terezin, she became the art teacher of the children whose drawings appear in the Jewish Museum of Prague.
www.museumoftolerance.com /site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249668   (323 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Find museums
Egypt Centre (formerly the Wellcome Museum of Antiquities), University of Wales, Swansea.
Medelhavsmuseet (Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities), Stockholm.
University of Saskatchewan Museum of Antiquities, Saskatoon.The Museum of Antiquities features a collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculpture in full-scale...
vlmp.museophile.com /cgi/htgrep/file=/vlmp/vlmp-db.html&style=ol?antiquities   (217 words)

  
 Odin - The Vikings
at the University Museum of National Antiquities in Oslo.
Large amounts of Arabian silver coins in Swedish archaeological diggings testify to intensive trading.
A wellknown Swedish archaeologist has written that the Viking ships are the only seaworthy amphibious landing vessels ever to be used by invasion forces.
odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990460   (4020 words)

  
 Stockholm : Attractions Frommers.com
Wander at leisure through the world's oldest open-air museum (which covers about 30 hectares/74 acres of parkland), getting a glimpse of Swedish life in the long-ago countryside.
If the Vasa Ship Museum doesn't pique your interest, perhaps the changing of the guard at the Royal Palace or the Gröna Lunds Tivoli amusement park will.
Regardless of your age, interests, or the time of year, Stockholm is loaded with interesting sights and activities.
www.frommers.com /destinations/stockholm/0066010029.html   (570 words)

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