Stockholm City Museum
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The Stockholm City Museum (Swedish: Stockholms stadsmuseum) is a museum documenting and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. The buildning was completed in 1685. The museum moved in in the 1930s and opened to the public in 1942. The museum is the largest municipal museum in Sweden, and houses collections which include 300,000 items of historical interest; 20,000 works of art and 3 million photographs.
The museum is governed by an administration that is also in charge of the Museum of Medieval Stockholm and Stockholmia Förlag (which publishes books on Stockholm and Stockholm's history).
One of the museum's departments - "Kulturmiljöavdelningen" - is also the City of Stockholm's cultural historical authority in relation to city planning proposals, building conversion, demolitions and other changes to the city's visual appearance.
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[edit] Exhibitions
The museum has one permanent exhibition called "A Journey in Time - Stockholm's 750th anniversary". It was opened in 2002 and tells the story of Stockholm from when the name Stockholm is first mentioned in writing in 1252 and up until 2002, stopping every 50 years.
The main exhibition is called "Döden Dö" ("Surely Die"). It is open between November 4th 2006 and March 18th 2007, and is themed around death in Stockholm.
Apart from the permanent exhibition and the main exhibitions, the museum most often has a few smaller exhibitions open, such as photographic exhibitions.
[edit] Other
The museum has a cafe and a shop, and during the summertime events such as dance evenings are held.
