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The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (Swedish: Scenkonstmuseet), from 2010 to 2014 known as the Music and Theater Museum, is a museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The museum is dedicated to dance, music and theatre.
Collection and activities
The museum chose a storyline in stead of a chronological following order. There is a collection of 60,000 objects, varying between stage designs, hand written song texts and premiere pieces.[1] There are at least 6,000 musical instruments[2] and furthermore puppets, marionets, costumes and more.[3] Since the reopening in 2017 there is a broad emphasis on interactive activities. For instance there is a gestrument, an aggregation between gesture and instrument. With it, visitors can make music by moving their bodies."[1]
History
The museum was founded in 2010 as the Music and Theater Museum. It closed on 30 March 2014 en reopened in 11 February 2017 with the name Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (in English, Swedish: Scenkonstmuseet).
It came forth from a merger of the Music Museum, Theater Museum and Puppet Museum. The historyline is as follows:
| Musikhistoriska museet (1901–1973) Musikmuseet (1973–2010) | Drottningholms teatermuseum (1921–1998) Sveriges Teatermuseum (1998–2009) | Marionettmuseet
(1973–2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Musik- och teatermuseet (2010–2014) Scenkonstmuseet Museum of Performing Arts (2017-today) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ a b TIN, Theater In Nederland, Het nieuwe Zweedse Podiumkunstmuseum geopend in Stockholm Template:Nl
- ^ MIMO, Scenkonstmuseet Stockholm - Sweden Template:Nl
- ^ DK Eyewitness, Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, pag. 74, ISBN 978-0241279458
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