The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, located in , Sweden, is a museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson as founding director.
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  • Email: info@ostasiatiska.se
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Also known as: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities”, “Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm”, “OEstasiatiska museet”, and “Östasiatiska Museet
  • Address: Tyghusplan 4
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet.

Museum
is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula in central . The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the National Portrait Gallery collection at , the Gustavsberg porcelain museum, several castle collections and the Swedish Institute in Paris. is situated 230 metres northwest of The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

Museum
Photo: Kalle1, Public domain.
is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened Malmö in . is situated 180 metres southeast of The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

Museum
The is a maritime museum in , . Located on the island of , the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. is situated 560 metres east of The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blasieholmen and Stockholm.

Locality
is a peninsula in central , Sweden. It is located east of . Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to , during the 17th century.

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

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

Latitude
59.32739° or 59° 19′ 39″ north
Longitude
18.08167° or 18° 4′ 54″ east
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Inception
1926
Open location code
9FFW83GJ+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1476007025
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
10280357
Wiki­data ID
Q298289
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: Հեռավոր Արևելքի հնությունների թանգարան
  • Belarusian: Музей Усходняй Азіі
  • Chinese: 东亚博物馆
  • Chinese: 东亚古物博物馆
  • Chinese: 东方博物馆
  • Chinese: 東方博物館
  • Chinese: 远东博物馆
  • Dutch: Ostasiatiska Museet
  • Dutch: Östasiatiska museet
  • Dutch: Östasiatiska Museet
  • Egyptian Arabic: متحف آثار الشرق الاقصى
  • Esperanto: Sveda Orientazia Muzeo
  • Finnish: Itä-Aasian museo
  • French: musée des antiquités d’Extrême-Orient
  • French: Musée des antiquités de l’Extrême-Orient
  • French: Musée des Antiquités orientales de Stockholm
  • French: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
  • French: Östasiatiska Museet
  • Galician: Museo de Antigüidades do Leste Asiático
  • Galician: Östasiatiska museet
  • Galician: Östasiatiska Museet
  • German: Museum für Fernöstliche Antiquitäten
  • German: Östasiatiska museet
  • German: Östasiatiska Museet
  • Hungarian: Kelet-ázsiai Múzeum
  • Indonesian: Museum Östasiatiska
  • Indonesian: Östasiatiska museet
  • Japanese: ストックホルム東洋博物館
  • Japanese: ストックホルム東洋美術館
  • Japanese: 東洋博物館 (ストックホルム)
  • Japanese: 東洋博物館
  • Korean: 동아시아 박물관
  • Korean: 동아시아박물관
  • Latvian: Austrumāzijas mākslas muzejs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Östasiatiska museet
  • Norwegian: Östasiatiska museet
  • Polish: Östasiatiska museet
  • Polish: Östasiatiska Museet
  • Russian: Музей Восточной Азии
  • Russian: Музей стран Восточной Азии
  • Spanish: Museo de Antigüedades del Extremo Oriente
  • Spanish: Museo de Arte Asiático
  • Swedish: Flottans Tyghus
  • Swedish: Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm
  • Swedish: Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm
  • Swedish: Östasiatiska museet
  • Swedish: Östasiatiska Museet
  • Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์โบราณวัตถุเอเชียตะวันออก
  • Turkish: Stockholm Uzak Doğu Eserleri Müzesi

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