Livrustkammaren

The Royal Armoury
Livrustkammaren
	Entrance to the museum
	Interactive fullscreen map
Established	1628
Location	Slottsbacken, Stockholm, Sweden
Coordinates	59°19′36.01″N 18°4′18.01″E / 59.3266694°N 18.0716694°E
Website	livrustkammaren.se

The Royal Armoury (Swedish: Livrustkammaren) 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.^[1]

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.^[3] According to treaty of Oliwa (1660), all these elements should be returned to Poland but till now, Sweden has returned only approximately 0.1% of them.

Gallery

An ornamented horn of the last aurochs bull, which belonged to King Sigismund III of Poland
Queen Kristina's coronation robe
Wedding dress of queen Sophia Magdalena, 1766.
Gustav III's masquerade dress
Gustav Vasa's helmet, 1540

References

^ ^a ^b "Ett museum blir till" (in Swedish). Livrustkammaren. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
^ "Livrustkammaren". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 March 2012.
^ Emanuelsson, Urban; Petersson, Maria (2009). Europeiska kulturlandskap: hur människan format Europas natur [European farmed landscapes: how man is shaping the land of Europe]. T / Formas, 1650-9846 ; 2009:1 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Formas. p. 161. ISBN 9789154059775. Retrieved 4 December 2014.