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Stockholm County Museum ( sv, Stockholms läns museum) is the regional
Stockholms läns museum website
* ("Building restoration") * ("Discover the county") {{Authority control Museums in Stockholm History museums in Sweden Virtual museums
Stockholm County Museum ( sv, Stockholms läns museum) is the regional museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
of Stockholm County
Stockholm County ( sv, Stockholms län, link=no ) is a county or '' län'' (in Swedish) on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm ...
, Sweden.
The museum's head office is currently located at Flemingsberg
Flemingsberg is a southern suburb of Stockholm, Sweden that is located in Huddinge Municipality in the south-western part of the contiguous Stockholm urban area.
It is located approximately 15 minutes by Stockholm commuter rail from central Sto ...
in Huddinge Municipality
Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (), which is a part of Stockholm urban area.
The municipality is, with its approximately 110,000 inhabitants, ...
. Previously, the museum was located at Sickla.
The museum serves the inhabitants in the county, especially those living in districts without a local museum. It documents both pre-historical and historical structures in the county and promotes people to visit historical locations by arranging "cultural paths" binding these sites together. To invite people to learn about the history of the county, the museum has put a large amount of texts and historical images on-line.Stockholm County Museum, English summary
It also offers information on how to preserve old buildings and promotes the use of traditional materials when restoring historical structures.Stockholm County Museum - ''Byggwebben''
The museum attempts to put focus on the modern history of Stockholm, including its suburbs
The area covered by the museum encompasses large parts of the Mälaren Valley
The Mälaren Valley ( sv, Mälardalen), occasionally referred to as Stockholm-Mälaren Region (''Stockholm-mälarregionen''), is the easternmost part of Svealand, the catchment area of Lake Mälaren and the surrounding municipalities. The term is ...
and the Stockholm Archipelago, an area with more than 700 runestone
A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but most of the runestones da ...
s, and many royal mansions, palaces, as well as many well-preserved homesteads and farmyards giving the landscape its characteristic.Stockholm County Museum, ''Besök länet''
See also
*History of Stockholm
The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as Gamla stan, the Stockholm Old Town. Stockholm's ''raison d'être'' always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the larges ...
* Stockholm City Museum
The Stockholm City Museum ( sv, Stadsmuseet i Stockholm) is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. The building was completed in 1685. In the 1 ...
References
External links
*Stockholms läns museum website
* ("Building restoration") * ("Discover the county") {{Authority control Museums in Stockholm History museums in Sweden Virtual museums