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MUSEUMS.
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Next to the Record Office the Archives of the »Kammarkollegium»
(cf. page 194) — »Kammararkivet» — possess the most important public
collection of manuscripts in the country. They derive their origin from
the time of Gustavus I (1523/60), and contain documents and accounts
in regard to the taxation, revenues, and other matters of exchequer of
inestimable importance to the knowledge of the history of the interior
administration and culture of Sweden.
The other central Government offices have their own archives, from
which considerable collections of old documents are from time to time
handed over to the Record Office. The Archives of the Central Bureau
of Statistics embrace (from 1860) nominative extracts on the population
for each tenth year from the Church Registers, and annual lists (also
nominative) of births, deaths, and marriages as well as of immigrants
and emigrants. The Military Archives consist of hand-drawn and printed
maps, marching-routes, plans for fortifications, sieges, and battles, besides
documents regarding the military and naval administration. Both the
Royal National Library in Stockholm and the two University Libraries
of Uppsala and Lund have considerable collections of manuscripts, which
is also the case with several State college libraries.
For the preservation of the archives of the inferior courts and the
local State administration, three Provincial Record Offices have been
founded of låte years in Uppsala, Vadstena, and Lund, to which various
authorities in the provinces shall deliver all documents bearing dates
previous to 1801.
Museums.
A) Art Museums. The most important art museum of Sweden,
the National Museum in Stockholm, may be said to have been originated
by the art-loving King Gustavus III (1771/92). The museum consists
of three principal sections: a) works of sculpture, and paintings; b)
drawings and engravings; c) objects of art-sloyd.
The collection of paintings contained 1,592 numbers in 1900. The
sculpture collection at the same time contained 910 numbers; the
collection of plaster-casts, 487 numbers; that of antiquities, 1,669; the
Egyptological collection, 948; the collection of drawings, 24,210; the collection of
engravings, 90,340; and the art-sloyd collection (of ceramic objects,
furniture, and products of art-industry) embraced at the same time 10,890
numbers. The total number of visitors amounted in 1900 to 131,814.
Among the museums in the provinces, the Art Section of the
Gothenburg Museum is the most important, and its collection of modern
Swedish paintings is one of the best in Scandinavia. The museum has
over 310 paintings in oil and pastel, and 165 pieces of sculpture. Its
section for art-industrial and ethnographical objects embraces over 2,700
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