The National Museums of World Culture
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities
The museum, located in Stockholm, houses Sweden's most important archaeological collections of ancient and historical relics from the Mediterranean countries. The collections contains 40 000 objects and almost all of these are available through Carlotta. In addition to these, you can search among 20 000 photographs. As a consequence of the fact that objects and photographs from the beginning were two separate databases with different purposes, the registers for objects are in English while the register for photographs is in Swedish.
The database currently contains...
- Objects, Egypt
- 17 270.
- Objects, Cyprus
- 16 418.
- Objects, Greece and Rome
- 5 202.
- Objects, Islam
- 2 936.
- Objects, Luristan
- 520.
- Objects, West Asia
- 1 043.
- Photographs
- 25 440.
- Exhibitions
- 117.
- Digital pictures
- 93 562.
- Most popular object
- Artist's sketch; Ostracon ; Ostracon, irregularly shaped, sketch on one side in red, green and black. It shows a lyre-playing woman, facing...
- Most popular picture
- interiör; utställning ; Medelhavsmuseet, interiör från nyförvärvsutställningen hösten 1995.
- Most recent object registration
- detalj; mönster; föremålsbild ; Detaljbild av föremål från Världskulturmuseet, utställt i Magiska mönster.
- Most recent picture registration
- detalj; mönster; föremålsbild ; Detaljbild av föremål från Världskulturmuseet, utställt i Magiska mönster.
- Most recently depicted object
- Situla; Vessel ; Cult and temple paraphernalia. A bronze situlae with remains of traditional decoration. Both suspension holes are missing.
- Most recently digitalized picture
- detalj; mönster; föremålsbild ; Detaljbild av föremål från Världskulturmuseet, utställt i Magiska mönster.
- Most recently digitalized name
- Journalist; Politician ; Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, the Minister for Culture from 2006.
Object of the Month
Qebehsenuef ; The head from a figure of Son of Horus (Qebehsenuef). The head is hollow. A dummy visceral package placed in a canopic jar? Plain but charming.
Object of the week
Cheekpiece ; Cast. Two cheekpieces cast in form of reclining wild boars with snout, triangular triple ringed eye, ovoid ear, elongated narrow front and hind legs bent along bottom, and tail bent inwards in low relief with incised striations. Central hole for reins has moulding, ...
About Carlotta
Carlotta is an information system being developed for museums and their museum collections. The basic idea of Carlotta is to provide a flexible system that can be used and adapted to all kinds of museum collections.
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