Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Archaeological museum in Norrmalm, Sweden.
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities displays objects spanning more than 7,000 years of history from Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Near East. The collection includes pottery, sculptures, jewelry, and other artifacts that document life in these ancient societies.
The museum was established in 1954 and later moved to Gustav Horns Palats, opening to the public in 1982. It has grown into an important center for studying and preserving the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean region.
The collections show how people in the Mediterranean and Near East lived through everyday objects made of clay, stone, and metal that reveal their daily practices. You can see items that demonstrate how these cultures connected and influenced one another across regions and time.
The museum occupies Gustav Horns palats at Fredsgatan 2, by Gustav Adolfs Torg; the entrance is the rounded arch in the rusticated grey stone base, and the gilt bust of bank founder Johan Henrik Palme sits in a facade niche above. Inside, the former bank hall rises ten metres under a flat glass roof, with arcades and upper galleries around it. The Cyprus gallery, sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and designed by White Architects, opened in January 2009.
The Cypriot holdings come from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's excavations in 1927–1931 under Einar Gjerstad, and form the most important collection of Cypriot excavation finds outside Cyprus. A gallery of Cypriot antiquities sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and designed by White Architects opened in January 2009.
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