Tekniska museet
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 57 ″ N , 18 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ E
 Tekniska museet |
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| place | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Art |
Technology museum and scientific collection
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| architect | Ragnar Hjorth |
| opening | 1924 as an association, opening in 1936, foundation formed in 1948 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 314 666 (2017) |
| management |
Peter Skogh
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Tekniska museet , the Technical Museum , is a museum in Stockholm with Sweden 's largest collection of exhibits from the fields of science and technology.
The museum was founded in 1923 by Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA), Sveriges Industriförbund , Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen (SUF) and Svenska Teknologföreningen and has been a foundation since 1948 . The current building in the Gärdet district ( Östermalm district ) in Stockholm was opened in 1936; it was built in the functionalist style according to the plans of the architect Ragnar Hjort. Tekniska museet has an exhibition area of 10,000 m² and has around 55,000 items in its collections. The number of visitors in 2007 was 305,746.
The centerpiece is the large machine hall, where exhibits such as steam engines , automobiles and planes are shown.
There are also:
- a walk-in ore mine ,
- a model railway ,
- some of Christopher Polhem's inventions, who developed a water-powered drive system named after him for draining ore mines, the so-called Polhem's wheel ,
- the original of the boardroom of the inventor and founder of today's media company Ericsson , Lars Magnus Ericsson ,
- between 2006 and 2014 Kreativa kvinnor , a presentation by female inventors of today and yesterday.
There is an amateur radio station in the museum that is looked after by volunteers. In addition, numerous temporary special exhibitions are held.
Web links
- Tekniska museet. Retrieved May 23, 2013 (Swedish).