Gamla Uppsala museum is a

historical museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...

Gamla Uppsala Gamla Uppsala (, ''Old Uppsala'') is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political c ...

, in the northern part of

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. The museum is oriented towards the

Vendel era In Scandinavian prehistory, sometimes specifically Swedish prehistory, the Vendel Period, or Vendel Age (; ) appears between the Migration Period and the Viking Age. The name is taken from the rich boat inhumation cemetery at Vendel parish c ...

and

Viking Age The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their ...

history of Gamla Uppsala. Gamla Uppsala was a major religious and cultural centre in Sweden during these eras as well as

medieval Sweden In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and t ...

between approximately the 5th and the 13th centuries, housing the famous pagan

Temple at Uppsala A temple (from the Latin ) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. By convention, the specially built places of worship of some religions are commonly called "temples" in Engli ...

and several large

burial mounds A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. ...

. The museum building was designed by architect Carl Nyrén (1917– 2011). The museum opened in 2000 and is run by the

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(

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:''Riksantikvarieämbetet'').

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Gamla Uppsala museum 04.JPG, Entrance Gamla Uppsala museum 02.JPG, Exhibition hall upstairs Gamla Uppsala museum 03.JPG, Exhibition hall downstairs Gamla Uppsala museum 06.JPG, View of Gamla Uppsala mounds

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Official website (''In Swedish'')

English website
History museums in Sweden Archaeological museums in Sweden Viking Age museums Museums in Uppsala County 2000 establishments in Sweden Museums established in 2000 Uppsala Municipality 21st-century establishments in Uppsala County {{Sweden-museum-stub

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