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The History of the Building
Photo: Max Plunger
The building from 1691 known as the Town Hall of the Southern District. Copper engraving by Willem Swidde from Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna.
The Stockholm City Museum looks out onto Ryssgården (The Russian Yard), which was named after the Russian merchants who sold leather and fur goods here in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and completed, after a fire, by his son in 1685.
The large edifice known as the Town Hall of the Southern District has always been in the ownership of the city, and in its time has accomodated everything from law courts, to schools, to prison cells, to an eating place, to an anatomical theatre, and space for foreign churches.
The Stockholm City museum came into being in the 1930s, and its object is to document and display the history of Stockholm and its inhabitants. The museum is the city’s cultural history authority as far as city planning proposals, rebuilding of houses, demolitions and other changes in the city’s landscape are concerned. A major part of this type of work is taken up with recording important buildings and carrying out archeological excavations.
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