Tyghuset (
Swedish
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: "The Arsenal") is a building on the islet
Skeppsholmen
Skeppsholmen is one of the islands of Stockholm. It is connected with Blasieholmen and Kastellholmen by bridges. It is accessible by foot from Kungsträdgården, past the Grand Hôtel and Nationalmuseum, by bus number 65, or by boat from Slusse ...
in central
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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, today housing the
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (), located in Stockholm, Sweden, is a museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) as founding director. The museum is located on Skepp ...
.
History
Built in 1663 as one of the first major structures the
Swedish Navy
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constructed on the island, the length of the building still reflects its original use as a
rope walk
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(''repslagarbana''), a building where strands were stretched out to be twined into
rope
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s (the length of the building thus being of strategic importance). It took ten years to build but only four years before it was devastated in a fire, and, because the Navy was relocated to
Karlskrona
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in 1680, it was never used for the original purpose again. During the fatale year 1697 the building was used to accommodate beggars and homeless, only to be ravaged by the fire at the Palace
Tre Kronor within a few days. King
Charles XII
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two years later ordered his architect
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (23 May 1654 – 10 April 1728) was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator.
The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the midd ...
to redesign the wrecked building into stables for his
Drabant Corps, which was mostly used on the battlefields. However the stables remained mostly unused and Tessin had to redesign the building into an arsenal in the 1720s. In summer 1731, parts of the building were used for a short period to house the lions and tigers of King
Frederick I Frederick I or Friedrich I may refer to:
* Frederick of Utrecht or Frederick I (815/16–834/38), Bishop of Utrecht.
* Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (942–978)
* Frederick I, Duke of Swabia (1050–1105)
* Frederick I ...
, after which the building was called ''Fredriks lejonkula'' ("Fredericks lion lair") for many years. A storey was added in 1855 and another in 1916 over the northern part used by the East-Asian Museum since 1963.
Notes
# Though the word '
arsenal
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' (e.g.
armoury
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) exists in Swedish, it is often translated to ''tyghus'', a word which Swedes often misinterpret literally as "cloth-house" or "textile-house".
References
See also
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History of Skeppsholmen
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*
History of Stockholm
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Origins
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External links
East-Asian Museum
Buildings and structures in Stockholm
1663 establishments in Sweden
17th-century establishments in Stockholm
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