Ekonomiska museet – Kungliga Myntkabinettet | |
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  Location within Stockholm | |
Former name | Royal Coin Cabinet – The National Museum of Coin, Medal and Monetary History |
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| Established | 1786 |
| Type | Numismatic museum |
| Website | ekonomiskamuseet |
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TheEconomy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet (Swedish:Ekonomiska museet – Kungliga Myntkabinettet) is a museum in centralStockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the history of money andeconomic history in general.
The Economy Museum is an institution with a national responsibility for the conservation and the historical studies of coins, medals, and finance in general. Through expositions, the institution offers insights in the economical history of the world; by lending objects from its collection to researchers and expositions all over the world, it helps develop the knowledge within its scope; and by maintaining a national register of coin hoards, it is of great importance to scholars in Sweden.[1] Over the portal is a piece of art by Elisabeth Ekstrand from 1996 calledVattenporfyrlek ("Water Porphyry Game") made ofporphyry andmarble. The museum includes exhibitions ofcoins,banknotes (the first in the world was issued in 1661 byStockholms Banco),treasure hoards andpiggy banks.[citation needed]
The Economy Museum's collection dates back to around 1572 whenRasmus Ludvigsson began collecting old Swedish coins. Over the next few centuries, the royal collection grew with donations from royals.
In 1786, theRoyal Academy of Letters was established and took ownership of the collection. In 1846, the collection was exhibited publicly for this first time at the Ridderstolp House atSkeppsbron. In 1865, the Royal Coin Cabinet collections was moved into theNational Historical Museum. The collection was exhibited there until it moved to another building inÖstermalm between 1938 and 1948. From 1899 to 1929, numismatistRosa Norström expanded the collections.[2][3]
In 1996, the museum was moved toSlottsbacken in Stockholm'sOld Town. It changed its name from "Royal Coin Cabinet – The National Museum of Coin, Medal and Monetary History" to "Royal Coin Cabinet – National Museum of Economy." In 2017, the museum closed and, in 2019, reopened in the Swedish History Museum's building.[4][5]
In 2013, the museum discovered that it was missing items from its collections. After launching a police investigation and taking inventory, they found that 1,200 objects with a reported value of 25 million SEK were missing.[6] The museum's last audit had been conducted in 1997 when the museum moved to its location in Old Town.[7]
In 2017, a former curator of the museum was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing and selling items from the Royal Coin Cabinet andMuseum of Gothenburg.[6] In 2020, another former employee was acquitted for the possession of stolen coins. The man had sold about 200 coins but prosecutors could not prove that they were stolen from the museum.[8] The ruling was upheld on appeal because the prosecutors could not prove the acts were notstatute barred.[9] 11 items were confiscated during the 2017 indictment and returned to the museum.[10]
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