Old National Archives
Gamla Riksarkivet is a building at Arkivgatan 3 on Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. Riksarkivet, the Swedish National Archives, were located in the building until 1968.Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Building
- Description: building in Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Also known as: “Gamla Riksarkivet”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Riddarholmen.
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.
Riddarholmen
Islet
Photo: Benoît Derrier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Riddarholmen is a small islet in central Stockholm, Sweden. The island forms part of Gamla Stan, the old town, and houses a number of private palaces dating back to the 17th century.
Riddarholm Church
Church
Photo: Nordelch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riddarholmen Church is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs. Riddarholm Church is situated 110 metres south of Old National Archives.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.
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.
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.
Old National Archives
Latitude
59.32564° or 59° 19′ 32″ northLongitude
18.06394° or 18° 3′ 50″ eastInception
1890Levels
4Open location code
9FFW83G7+7HOpenStreetMap ID
way 23841396OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q10502472
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Swedish—“Old National Archives” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Vanha valtionarkisto”
- French: “Gamla Riksarkivet”
- Slovenian: “Gamla Riksarkivet”
- Spanish: “Gamla Riksarkivet”
- Swedish: “Gamla riksarkivet”
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Highlights include Stenbockska Palatset and Levins villa.
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