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Swedish Museum of National Antiquities is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden. That is responsible for Swedish cultural history and art from the Stone Age to the 16th century. The main museum building, the design of architects Bengt Romare and George Scherman 1935-1940, reflects an ambivalence between the predominant modern style of the era and the historical context given not only by the context requirements, but also the 19th century barracks and stables south of the museum designed by Fredrik Blom and built 1805-1817.

The museum’s archaeological collection originates from four different regions: the Netherlands, Egypt, the Near East and the world of classical antiquity. In total, the collection consists of more than 80,000 objects. Among these are the majestic statues of the Roman emperors and prehistoric golden jewellery, as well as the impressive Egyptian mummy cases and Etruscan masterpieces in bronze. In the permanent presentations, you can admire almost 6,000 objects from that enormous collection. The other objects are kept in storage depots. Many have retained their original strong colours and gilding. You can also see different relic containers, several of which form part of the unique Linkping Treasure, as well as baptismal fonts in stone and other objects required for the alter and the services: missals, altar crosses, chalices, patens and vessels for the sacramental wine and communion bread.

The Vikings exhibition displays four thousand original objects from the Viking period. It describes daily life a thousand years ago, travel near and far, and tells the stories of men and women, aristocrats, farmers and thralls. A large model of one of Sweden’s first towns, Birka, is also on display. The exhibition also addresses the role the Vikings play in our own period: how nationalism and Nazism made use of the Viking period in propaganda. Madonna from Viklau Church, Sweden. Carved polychrome wood.

The Museum of National Antiquities is open every day of the week, 355 days a year, and admission is free. Visit the Gold Room and see Sweden’s finest treasures. Celebrating the 700 year anniversary of Saint Bridget called for a creative solution. The Museum of National Antiquities, Historiska Museum, in Stockholm, Sweden, chose an audio tour with PICKUP audio guides to help visitors navigate through the collection.

Most temples of antiquity are eventually physically altered, defiled or destroyed. This was not the fate of Abu Simbel because encroaching sands soon buried its lower half. It lay forgotten for millennia. Abu Simbel wasn’t rediscovered and exposed until about 200 years ago.
Before little more of two years BBC carried out research between TV spectators for the 50 places which every must see while is alive. Abu Simbel was one of this places. It is set of two temples near the border of Egypt with Sudan. The larger one is Ra and Amun. The smaller temple is dedicated to the goddess Hathor, the goddess of love and beauty and also to his favorite wife – Nefertary. The facade of greater temple is 33 meters high and 38 meters broad. There is a guarded by four statues, each of which is 20 meters high. They were sculpted directly from the rock. It was constructed for the pharaoh Ramses II in the 13th century BC. Abu Simbel is the most magnificent monuments in the world. During the salvage operation in 1964-1968 the two temples were dismantled and raised around 6o meters up the sandstone cliff where they had been built more 3,000 years before.
The actual interior of the temple is inside the cliff in the form of man-made cave cut out of the living rock. From the room a doorway leads to the vestibule and beyond that is located the innermost shrine with seater statues of the gods – Ra, Ramsess, Ptah.