Royal Armoury
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The Royal Armoury () is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.
Key facts
- Museum.name
- The Royal Armoury
- Museum.native_name
- Livrustkammaren
- Museum.logo
- 150px
- Museum.image
- Livrustkammaren 2011a.jpg
- Museum.caption
- Entrance to the museum
- Museum.mapframe
- yes
- Museum.mapframe caption
- Interactive fullscreen map
- Museum.mapframe zoom
- 14
- Museum.mapframe marker
- museum
- Museum.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Museum.established
- 1628
- Museum.location
- Slottsbacken, Stockholm, Sweden
- Museum.website
- livrustkammaren.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cultural property
- Part of
- Stockholm Palace
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Stockholm
- Main subject
- military history
- Official website
- livrustkammaren.se/sv
- Image
- Livrustkammaren 2011b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Livrustkammaren
- inception
- 1628-01-01
- located in/on physical feature
- Stockholm Palace
- Commons Institution page
- Livrustkammaren
- hashtag
- livrustkammaren
- date of official opening
- 1628-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- fee
- 0
- native label
- Livrustkammaren
- social media followers
- 4808
- terms of service URL
- livrustkammaren.se/en/node/1739
- architect
- Sven Ivar Lind
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The Royal Armoury () is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.
A drinking horn made from a horn of the last aurochs bull and taken by the Swedish army as war booty from Jaktorów, Poland, during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660) is part of the collection of the museum.
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