National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada)
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- NLC 5/81(AACR 2: National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada))
- Amicus, Aug. 22, 2001(National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada); est. Nov. 1967; name changed 2000 to Canada Science and Technology Museum; from National Museums of Canada authority record: [National Museums of Canada] ceased to exist July 1, 1990, at the same time its functions were absorbed by National Museum of Science and Technology, National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, and Canadian Museum of Nature; part of the National Museum of Science and Technology Corporation; variants: NMST, National Museum, Science & Technology; equivalent: Musée national des sciences et de la technologie (Canada))
The National Museum of Science and Technology (Swedish: Tekniska museet) is a museum in Stockholm. It is Sweden’s largest museum of technology, and has a national charter to be responsible for preserving the Swedish cultural heritage related to technological and industrial history. Its galleries comprise around 10,000 square meters, and the museum attracts annually about 350,000 visitors. The collections consist of more than 55,000 objects and artifacts, 1 200 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 800,000 images and about 40,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for generations to come.
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