3 . N O R D I S K A
M U S E E T
DJURGÅRDSVÄGEN 6-16
Had it not been for Artur Hazelius , the Nordic
Museum would not have existed . The museum
was his own idea and creation .
During a trip in Dalarna in the summer of 1872
he seemed to see that much of the older folk
culture was giving way to the industrial society
of the modern age . The impressions of the trip
convinced him that it was high time to start
collecting objects and memories that could
tell future generations about past times . He
went to work already during the trip and
bought , among other things , the item that
would become number 1 in the museum ' s
collection , a wool skirt from Stora Tuna .
A year later , in October 1873 , he opened the
Scandinavian - ethnographic collection at
Drottninggatan 71 . The collection grew rapidly
and in 1888 the first spade roof was taken to
the museum building at Djurgården .
The inauguration of the new museum building
at Djurgården took place in June 1907 . The
museum had then been made into a
foundation and the name was changed to the
Nordic Museum .
Today , the Nordic Museum is Sweden ' s largest
cultural history museum . The collection
contains about 1 . 5 million objects . The
museum also has a rich cultural history archive
with , among other things , a photographic
collection with about 6 million images . The
museum ' s library comprises approximately
3 , 800 shelves .