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PHOTO: MIKAEL WALLERSTEDT
Art cabinet in safe keeping
The Art Cabinet holds about 1000 different pieces.
The Augsburg Art Cabinet, which arrived in Sweden in 1633, is the University’s most highly valued art object. When Uppsala University Museum Gustavianum began its renovation in November 2019, the famous cabinet was dismantled, packed up and placed in safe keeping. The various pieces of the cabinet are being stored in a secret location while the renovation is ongoing. It is expected that the
Augsburg Art Cabinet will be back at Gustavianum in 2022. The cabinet was a gift to King Gustav II Adolf from the free city of Augsburg in Germany. The art cabinet contains some 1,000 artefacts, including a birdcage, a strip of human skin, board games of various kinds and a mummified claw.
U P P S A L A U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E
2020
Art manager Mattias Terras (in the foreground) and curator Anna Hamberg.
