Collections

The Röhsska Museum has an extensive collection of about 50 000 artefacts, spanning craft, design and fashion. The collection is divided into various smaller collections, inter alia furniture, metal, industrial design, textile, costume, sketches, prints and illustrations, glass, ceramics, book bindings and the East Asian collection. The museum also holds other kinds of collections with specific items, like the Japanese woodblock print collection or the Falk Simon donation which holds an impressive collection of gold and silver artefacts. Here is an introduction to some of our collections.

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Textile tomb findings

Most of the textile tomb findings in the Röhsska collection consist of items acquired by the museum in the early 1900s. These findings are mostly cut out ornaments that are believed to have been part of tunics. Pictures of stylized animals, flowers, fish and birds, many with circles and medallions, are common motifs. Some of the textiles belongs to the group of Coptic textiles. The word Copt or "Coptic" was created by the Arab conquerors when they took over Egypt and found a Christian minority in the country, which they then called Copts.
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