Hallwyl Museum ( sv, Hallwylska museet) is a Swedish national
museum
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housed in the historical Hallwyl House in central
Stockholm
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located on 4,
Hamngatan
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facing
Berzelii Park
Berzelii Park is a small park in central Stockholm, Sweden. The park is the location of the China Theater (''Chinateatern''), and the Berns Salonger Restaurant and Theater.
History
Planning and construction
Berzelii Park was named after th ...
. The house once belonged to the Count and Countess von Hallwyl, but was donated to the Swedish state in 1920 to eventually become a museum. In 1938, the museum was officially opened.
History
Hallwyl House ( sv, Hallwylska palatset) was built 1893–1898 to the design of
Isak Gustaf Clason for Count and his wife,
Wilhelmina. It was created to accommodate the office of the count and the extensive art collection of the countess.
Wilhelmina and Walther von Hallwyl also lived there during the winter. While the exterior of the building and the court is historical in style — borrowing architectural elements from medieval prototypes and
Renaissance
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Venice — it was utterly modern on its completion — including electricity, central heating, telephones, and bathrooms. The elevator was a later addition.
The countess collected her artworks during her worldwide journeys in order to found a museum, and, consequently, the palace was donated to the Swedish State in 1920, a decade before her death. The museum, including many of the rooms where they used to live, opened in 1938 to the public.
Hallwyl Museum, in association with
Skokloster Castle
Skokloster Castle ( sv, Skoklosters slott) is a Swedish Baroque castle built between 1654 and 1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, located on a peninsula of Lake Mälaren between Stockholm and Uppsala. It became a state museum in the 1970s and displays co ...
and the
Royal Armoury, is part of a government agency known as the Royal Armoury and Skokloster Castle with the Hallwyl Museum Foundation, or Livrustkammaren och Skoklosters slott med Stiftelsen Hallwylska museet (LSH) in Swedish.
Collections
Hallwyl House was donated to the Swedish state on the condition that it would remain unchanged. Today, the house has been preserved as it was when Countess von Hallwyl donated the house. The museum features preserved rooms from the late
Victorian period
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in Sweden giving a glimpse into the lifestyles of the nobility in Stockholm at the time.
The Hallwyl Collection, which is housed there, encompasses some 50,000 objects.
dining room
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Gallery
See also
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List of museums in Stockholm
The following is a list of museums in and around Stockholm.
Art
*Artipelag
*Millesgården
*Milliken Gallery
*Moderna Museet
*Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
*National Gallery
* Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum
*Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design ...
References
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External links
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Virtual tour of the Hallwyl Museumprovided by
Google Arts & Culture
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It utilizes high-resolution image technol ...
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Palaces in Stockholm
Museums in Stockholm
Art museums and galleries in Stockholm
Historic house museums in Sweden
1938 establishments in Sweden
Museums established in 1938