ABSTRACT
It was a great and true idea by Artur Hazelius to create a museum not only for the Swedish people but for the memories of all the Nordic peoples. For the culture that developed on a Scandinavian foundation is in principle one and the same, whether it is called Swedish or Finnish, Norwegian or Danish. They are the branches of a tree spreading out in different directions, but growing from the same stem and forming a coherent entity. 1
