Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm
The Swedish Army Museum is situated at Östermalm in central Stockholm.
About the Swedish Army Museum
The Swedish Army Museum, or Armémuseum in Swedish, exhibits Swedens military history from the Vikings to the present.
The displays include weapons, trophies and other objects related to the Swedish Army, and also focus on the recreation of realistic and representative scenes of the great battles and its soldiers.
The flags and trophies of defeated armies are put on display in a special department of the Swedish Army Museum.
The building it self was constructed in 1867 as an artillery arsenal, but was already in 1877 to be converted into an Artillery Museum. Since 1932 the Armémuseum in Stockholm represents the whole Swedish Army.
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Videos from Armémuseum
Swedish troops returning from Afganistan are recieved by the Minister of Defence at The Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm, December 2009.
The Swedish Army Museum Armémuseum |
Museum detailsAddressRiddargatan 13. See map below. Contact detailsTel: (+46) (0)8 51956300 |
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Swedish Soldier, of the Second World War, with a fur lined waterproof coat.
During WW2 Sweden remained neutral, and managed to prevent itself from
becoming involved with the larger conflicts at the time. Sweden maintained
a modern and effective armed force to protect it’s independence. The Swedish
soldiers were generally well equipped and well provided for. Clothing and
other supplies sometimes had to be imported from other countries, and there
were difficulties in maintaining a well resourced Military Force. This
figure is dressed in some basic clothing items of the Swedish Army, and, I have been assured that to wear only an undershirt beneath an arctic quality coat would be most unusual and not recommended.
Swedish Soldier, of the Second World War, with a fur lined waterproof coat.
During WW2 Sweden remained neutral, and managed to prevent itself from
becoming involved with the larger conflicts at the time. Sweden maintained
a modern and effective armed force to protect it’s independence. The Swedish
soldiers were generally well equipped and well provided for. Clothing and
other supplies sometimes had to be imported from other countries, and there
were difficulties in maintaining a well resourced Military Force. This
figure is dressed in some basic clothing items of the Swedish Army, and, I have been assured that to wear only an undershirt beneath an arctic quality coat would be most unusual and not recommended.
I am interested in Swedish Uniforms of the 30 Year War in particluar the Hakkapeliitta. Do you have any record in the Museaum of the colour of their jackets?
I am interested to know more about the Swedish ‘regementsstycke’ as represented in a MS by Mollerheim dated 1706. Who was Mollerheim? This information I got from the book Guns, Sails and Empires by Cipolla.
Interested in the Swedish forces during the Seven Years War. Particularly the regimental flags of that period, of the infantry and the cavalry.