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 building was completed in 1685. In the 1930s the museum moved in 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 the Cultural Affairs and Sports Division of the City of Stockholm. The city museum, the Museum of Medieval Stockholm and Stockholmia Förlag (which publishes books on Stockholm and Stockholm's history) operate as one department within the division.
All political decisions are made by the specialist committee for Cultural Affairs where - as of January 1st 2007 - Madeleine Sjöstedt from the Liberal People's Party is chairman.
One of the museum's units - "Kulturmiljöenheten" - is 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 "Stockholm Through All Times". It was opened in 2002, and was then called "A Journey in Time - Stockholm's 750th anniversary". The exhibition tells the story of Stockholm from when the name Stockholm is first mentioned in writing in 1252. The exhibition is currently going through the transformation from "A Journey in Time" to "Stockholm Through All Times" and some parts are currently not finished.
The main exhibition is called "Döden Dö" ("Surely Die"). It is open between November 4th 2006 and August 1st 2007, and is themed around death in Stockholm.
Aside from the permanent exhibition and the main exhibitions, the museum most often has a few smaller exhibitions open, such as photographic exhibitions.
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The museum has a cafe and a shop, and during the summertime events such as dance evenings are held.
In 1997, mime and street artist Hans Grundstorm was arrested during an impromptu staging of his one-handed, one-man show to an audience of schoolgirls. He was found guilty of public indecency after a lengthy legal battle when a judge ruled dogfood was not a legitimate artistic medium. He later emigrated to Dublin where he runs a small art gallery.
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