Medelhavsmuseet

Medelhavsmuseet is a museum in central Stockholm focused around collections of mainly ancient objects from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Since 1999 the museum is one of four composing the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden.

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Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday—Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
Type: Museum
Description: museum in Stockholm, Sweden
Also known as: “Museum of Mediterranean & Near East Antiquities” and “Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Dance Museum.

Stockholm Central Station

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Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Dance Museum

Museum

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Dansmuseet is a museum for the performing and visual arts located in Stockholm, Sweden. Opened in 1953 in the basement of the Royal Swedish Opera, it originally displayed a large collection of dance-related art that belonged to Rolf de Maré, a leader of the Ballets suédois in Paris from 1920 to 1925. Dance Museum is situated 120 metres west of Medelhavsmuseet.

Nationalmuseum

Museum

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Nationalmuseum is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm. The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the National Portrait Gallery collection at Gripshom, the Gustavsberg porcelain museum, several castle collections and the Swedish Institute in Paris. Nationalmuseum is situated 630 metres east of Medelhavsmuseet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Klara and Gamla stan.

Klara

Neighborhood

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Klara is a part of lower Norrmalm in the central part of Stockholm. It has its name from Klara Church. Today the name, though not often used in daily speech, has become synonymous with the old city that once occupied lower Norrmalm.

Gamla stan

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Gamla stan pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in Stockholm, containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

Stockholm

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Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within Stockholm County. The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Medelhavsmuseet

Categories: archaeological museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

59.32945° or 59° 19′ 46″ north

Longitude

18.0673° or 18° 4′ 2″ east

Elevation

20 metres (66 feet)

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

9FFW83H8+QW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 304609719

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

10174614

Wikidata ID

Q1331646

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Medelhavsmuseet” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Միջերկրածովյան և մերձավորարևելյան հնությունների թանգարան”
Chinese: “地中海博物館”
Czech: “Muzeum středozemních a blízkovýchodních starožitností”
Danish: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Dutch: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Egyptian Arabic: “متحف آثار البحر المتوسط والشرق الادنى”
Finnish: “Välimeren museo”
Finnish: “Välimerimuseo”
French: “Medelhavsmuseet”
French: “musée archéologique des pays méditerranéens et du Proche-Orient”
French: “Musée archéologique des pays méditerranéens et du Proche-Orient”
German: “Archäologisches Museum für die Mittelmeerländer und den Nahen Osten”
German: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Hebrew: “המוזיאון לעתיקות הים התיכון והמזרח הקרוב”
Japanese: “地中海・中近東古美術博物館”
Polish: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Polish: “Muzeum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej i Bliskiego Wschodu”
Russian: “Музей Средиземноморья”
Spanish: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Spanish: “Museo Arqueologico del Mediterraneo y del Medio Oriente”
Spanish: “Museo Arqueológico del Mediterráneo y del Medio Oriente”
Spanish: “Museo del Mediterráneo”
Swedish: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Swedish: “Stockholms medelhavsmuseum”
Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์เมดิเตอร์เรเนียน”
Turkish: “Medelhavsmuseet”
Ukrainian: “Музей Середземномор’я та Близького Сходу, Музей антикваріату Середземномор’я та Близького Сходу”
Ukrainian: “Музей Середземномор’я”

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