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Nordic Museum

Nordic Museum

Also known as Nordiska museet

Year

1907

Type

museum

What stands on Lejonslätten today is not a finished national palace but the one realized wing of Isak Gustaf Clason's far larger castle plan. Artur Hazelius opened the Scandinavian-Ethnographic Collection on 24 October 1873 and founded…

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Nordic Museum

Timeline

  1. 1889-1907

    Original construction

    Isak Gustaf Clason, Magnus Isæus

  2. 1889

    Initial design development

    Reworked Wilhelm Manchot's competition-winning design for the museum starting in the late 1880s, before his death in 1890. The project was then taken over by Isak Gustaf Clason.

    Magnus Isæus

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