The Royal Armoury ( sv, Livrustkammaren) is a
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 th ...
in the
Royal Palace
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Africa
* Abdin Palace, Cairo
* Al-Gawhara Palace, Cairo
* Koubbeh Palace, Cairo
* Tahra Palace, Cairo
* Menelik Palace
* Jubilee Palace
* Guenete Leul Palace
* Imperial Palace- ...
in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
, Sweden. It contains many
artifacts of
Swedish military history and
Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King
Gustavus Adolphus
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when he decided that his clothes from his
campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.
A drinking horn made from a horn of the last
aurochs
The aurochs (''Bos primigenius'') ( or ) is an extinct cattle species, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to in bulls and in cows, it was one of the largest herbivores in the Holocene ...
bull and taken by the
Swedish army
The Swedish Army ( sv, svenska armén) is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces.
History
Svea Life Guards dates back to the year 1521, when the men of Dalarna chose 16 young able men as body guards for the insurgent nobleman Gustav ...
as war booty from
Jaktorów,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, during the
Swedish invasion of Poland
The Deluge ( pl, potop szwedzki, lt, švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce ...
(1655–1660) is part of the collection of the museum.
Gallery
File:Hunting horn of Sigismund III of Poland.jpg, An ornamented horn of the last aurochs bull, which belonged to King Sigismund III of Poland
File:Kröningsmantel av purpurfärgad sammet - Livrustkammaren - 91426.tif, Queen Kristina
Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death a ...
's coronation robe
File:Sofia Magdalenas brudklänning, robe de cour, 1766.jpg, Wedding dress of queen Sophia Magdalena, 1766.
File:Rum A - Livrustkammaren - 87956.tif, Gustav III
Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.
Gustav was a vocal opponent of what ...
's masquerade dress
File:Gustav Vasas hjälm från 1540 cirka - Livrustkammaren - 94005.tif, Gustav Vasa
Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ('' Riksför ...
's helmet, 1540
See also
*
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 Des ...
References
External links
*
Virtual tour of the Livrustkammarenprovided by
Google Arts & Culture
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It utilizes high-resolution image technol ...
*
Museums in Stockholm
Military and war museums in Sweden
1628 establishments in Sweden
Armour collections
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