Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Parliament funded it in 1926 around one archaeologist's discovery of an East Asian prehistory the world didn't know existed.
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Johan Gunnar Andersson dug up unknown prehistoric China in the 1920s, and Sweden built a museum around what he found. Today the collection spans archaeology, classical arts, and contemporary culture from China, Japan, Korea, and India — a breadth that grew far beyond its founding obsession.
What to look for
- The archaeology galleries rooted in Andersson's China discoveries — the original reason the museum exists
- Collections covering all four regions: China, Japan, Korea, and India
- The public research library, which holds the annual Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA)
Located on Skeppsholmen island in the Tyghuset building; part of the Swedish National Museums of World Culture since 1999.
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities is one of 34 sights worth the detour in Stockholm, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Stockholm pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Stockholm
- Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThis is the body that picks up the phone to tell physicists and chemists they've won the Nobel Prize.
- Avicii ArenaA 110-metre sphere that serves as the Sun in the world's largest scale model of the solar system — and you can walk right up to it.
- Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery)A 1920 cemetery built on old pine-covered gravel quarries that went on to reshape how the world designs burial grounds.
- Stockholm PalaceThe same ground has held a royal residence since the 1250s — the current palace took nearly six decades to finish, outlived its architect, and the Rococo interiors are largely unchanged.
- Vasa MuseumA 64-gun warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 — and is still almost entirely intact.
- Skansen150 actual Swedish buildings, shipped piece by piece to one hill — a whole country preserved before industry erased it.