Scenkonstmuseet | |
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  Location within Stockholm | |
Former name | Music and Theater Museum |
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| Established | 2010 |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Website | scenkonstmuseet |
59°20′01″N18°04′42″E / 59.33351°N 18.07820°E /59.33351; 18.07820
TheSwedish Museum of Performing Arts (Swedish:Scenkonstmuseet), from 2010 to 2014 known as theMusic and Theater Museum, is amuseum inStockholm,Sweden. The museum is dedicated todance,music andtheatre.
The museum presents a storyline rather than following a chronological order. There is a collection of 60,000 objects, including stage designs, hand written song texts and premiere[clarification needed] pieces.[1] There are at least 6,000musical instruments[2] as well as puppets, marionettes and costumes.[3] Since its reopening in 2017 the museum has a broad emphasis on interactive activities: for example there is agestrument, an aggregation between gesture and instrument – visitors can make music by moving their bodies."[1]
The museum was founded in 2010 as the Music and Theater Museum. It closed on 30 March 2014 then reopened on 11 February 2017 with the new name Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (in English, Swedish: Scenkonstmuseet).
The museum originated in a merger of theMusic Museum, Theater Museum and Puppet Museum:
| Musikhistoriska museet (1901–1981) Musikmuseet (1981–2010) | Drottningholms teatermuseum (1921–1998) Sveriges Teatermuseum (1998–2009) | Marionettmuseet (1973–2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Musik- och teatermuseet (2010–2014) Scenkonstmuseet Museum of Performing Arts (2017-today) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
