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Östasiatiska museet

Object description

The Swedish archaeologist Johan "Kina-Gunnar" Andersson found painted ceramics from Chinas agricultural Stone Age in China in the 1920s. These collections formed the basis for the museum, which was instituted by the Swedish Parliament in 1926. The museum grew rapidly and eventually held a wealth of informative material about Asian cultures. These collections were merged in 1959 with the National Museum of Fine Arts collections of Far Eastern and Indian arts and crafts. The new museum opened in 1963 in Tyghuset, an old naval building on Skeppsholmen. The long yellow building, which dates from the late 1600s, was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. It has been a ropewalk, a poorhouse and a stable, as well as a lions den, and now: Meeting place Asia!

Since 1999 the museum has been part of the National Museums of World Culture together with the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. The four museums present and bring to life the worlds cultures and offer a perspective on our world. (www.ostasiatiska.se, 2010-10-07)

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Display name

Östasiatiska museet

Libris-id

136188

SMVK-EM - samma som

1441756

Alternative Name

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

Function

Museum

Address

Skeppsholmen, Box 16381, 103 27 Stockholm

Description

Source - http

www.ostasiatiska.se

; libris.kb.se

; collections.smvk.se

Place - Activity

Stockholm

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