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amining the ^[[w]]ork of Hildebrand and Montilius in the National Museum. The lower story of this vast building is given up to the history of Sweden during 4000 years. A very small case near the entrance, containing less than a hundred specimens representing palaeolithic Sweden. The neolithic period widens out into an immense exposition of the most beautiful and finely wrought objects of flint. The bronze age is carefully studied out and illustrated by material that has excited the admiration of the world. There is an enormous quantity of gold objects mixed with the bronze. In order to secure all the precious metal found by men in excavating, the government takes the object at its bullion value, with an honorarian. This saves all precious objects from the melting pot. You pass along to the iron age, to the middle age, then to modern Swedish history, closing with the coins, medals, decorations, and monuments of the reigning family. There does not seem to be a break in the 4000 years. 

The ethnographic collection^[[s]] are not separately installed, having formed a part of the natural history collections. Especially interesting are two ancient log coffins^[[,]] showing the mortuary customs of the ancient [[underlined]] dances [[/underlined]] ^[[?]] as soon as you enter the old Nordesk Museum you are at once