The Gold Room
Welcome to our Gold Room exhibition.
People have always been fascinated by gold.
They use it to make valuable jewellery and objects.
At the entrance to the Gold Room there is a rune carving from 1040.
It shows what can happen if you are too greedy for gold.
The Gold Room contains a total of 52 kg of gold and more than 200 kg of silver.
You can see gold collars from the Migration period and
silver pendants from the Viking period.
There are reliquaries, containers for holy remains,
decorated with gemstones from the Middle Ages
and other amazing objects.
Goldsmiths today are impressed by the skills of goldsmiths a long time ago.
In Sweden we have had laws to protect very old objects since the 17th century.
The law protects finds made from gold, silver or copper alloys.
If they are more than 100 years old they are bought by the state.
This is why so many gold and silver objects have been preserved in Sweden.
- Updated: 8 December 2009
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