Statens historiska museum

Not a holder of a Cypriot collection of its own as far as the sources show: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition finds were stored in Stockholm from 1931 and housed in the basement of the new Historiska museet building 1944-1982, and only a very small selection was shown in its permanent gallery; the collection is now the core of the Medelhavsmuseet (2012)

Recke 2012

1. 1931
   The Cyprus collections (about 12,000 objects and 5,000 boxes of sherds) reached Stockholm; the National Heritage Board stored them in the unheated 18th-century Oxenstiernska Malmgården, not in the Historiska museet

   StockholmRecke 2012

2. 1934
   G. Olson, named in the SCE I preface as 'Mr. G. Olson, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm', did conservation work on metal objects of the expedition, 'successfully saving many apparently hopeless cases'

   StockholmG. OlsonGjerstad et al. 1934, p. XX

3. 1935–1936
   A government commission examined what to do with the Cyprus collections; the general view was that they must go to more suitable storage

   StockholmRecke 2012

4. 1940
   The National Heritage Board agreed to move the collections to the adjacent former artillery building; the Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska museet) had by then been created with a new building next to the old artillery buildings

   StockholmRecke 2012

5. 1941
   Westholm's exhibition 'Före Fidias' of pre-classical art, mainly from the Cyprus collections and the Statens Historiska Museum, published as no. 3 in the exhibition series of the Riksantikvarieämbetet and the Statens Historiska Museum

   StockholmAlfred WestholmRecke 2012

6. 1944
   The Cyprus collections were moved to the basement of the new Museum of National Antiquities building, where they remained until 1982; only a very small selection was exhibited in the permanent antiquities gallery

   StockholmRecke 2012

7. 1982
   The Cyprus collections left the Historiska museet basement for the Medelhavsmuseet's new premises at Gustav Adolfs Torg (an agreement with the National Property Board was made in 1982; the first exhibition opened 16 September 1982)

   StockholmRecke 2012

• Pierides vases (97 numbers)

  MM SHM 17946:1-97via Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden1926Winbladh 1994, pp. 20-21

• Middle Cypriote vases and 60 boxes of sherds from Kalopsidha

  MM 1956:328from Kalopsidhavia Einar Nilson Gjerstad1926Winbladh 1994, pp. 20-21