Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Tekniska Museet
Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

File:Tekniska museet 2008.jpg The National Museum of Technology (main entrance)
Established	1923
Location	Tekniska museet, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Type	Technology museum
Visitors	300,468 (2013)
Director	Ann Folin
Public transit access	Bus No. 69 to Museiparken
Website	www.tekniskamuseet.se

The Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology (Swedish: Tekniska museet) is a Swedish museum in Stockholm. It is Sweden’s largest museum of technology, and has a national charter to be responsible for preserving the Swedish cultural heritage related to technological and industrial history. Its galleries comprise around 10,000 square meters, and the museum attracts annually about 350, 000 visitors. The collections consist of more than 50,000 objects and artifacts, 600 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 620,000 images and just over 50,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for generations to come.

History

The National Museum of Science and Technology was founded in 1924 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (formerly the Federation of Swedish Industries), the Swedish Inventors' Association and the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (formerly Svenska Teknologföreningen – roughly, the Swedish Association of Technologists). Its present building is designed in the functionalistic style by architect Ragnar Hjorth, and was opened in 1936. The museum became a foundation in 1947; and has been operated with government funding since 1964.

Pictures

• Tekniska museet 2008a.jpg

  The National Museum of Science and Technology.

• Tekniska museet 2008b.jpg

  The Machine Hall

• Tekniska museet 1952.jpg

  Philips demonstration of television, November 1952.

• Tekniska museet sk0tm.jpg

  Museum's amateur radio station.

External links

• Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology website.