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Royal Armoury (33511458430)
Royal Armoury may refer to: * Livrustkammaren ("The Royal Armoury"), a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm * Royal Armouries, the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour * Royal Armouries Museum, in Leeds {{disambig ...
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Livrustkammaren
The Royal Armoury ( sv, Livrustkammaren) is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity. A drinking horn made from a horn of the last aurochs bull and taken by the Swedish army as war booty from Jaktorów, Poland, during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660) is part of the collection of the museum. Gallery File:Hunting horn of Sigismund III of Poland.jpg, An ornamented horn of the last aurochs bull, which belonged to King Sigismund III of Poland File:Kröningsmantel av purpurfärgad sammet - Livrustkammaren - 91426.tif, Queen Kristina's coronation robe File:Sofia Magdalenas brudklänning, robe de cour, 1766.jpg, Wedding dress of queen Sophia Magdalena, 1766. File:Rum A - Livrustkammaren - 87956.tif, Gustav III's m ...
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Royal Armouries
The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's national collection of arms and armour. Originally an important part of England's military organization, it became the United Kingdom's oldest museum, originally housed in the Tower of London from the 15th century, and one of the oldest museums in the world. It is also one of the oldest and largest collections of arms and armour in the world, comprising the UK's National Collection of Arms and Armour, National Artillery Collection, and National Firearms Collection. Its historic base is in the Tower of London, but today the collection is split across three sites: the Tower, the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, and Fort Nelson near Portsmouth From 2004 to 2015, a limited selection of items was also on display in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, in cooperation with the Frazier History Museum. History The Royal Armouries is one of the ancient institutions of the Tower of London and was originally engaged in the manufactu ...
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