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.
The collection of book art
Röhsska Museum has a unique collection of book art that is of an international standard. It contains bindings from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Important elements are Italian Renaissance volumes, two Grolier bindings and a book bag from ca. 1300. The collection of book art also includes the Weigelska collection of printed books and a handwritten collection of mediaeval manuscripts and illuminated sheets. There is also a collection of endpapers and bookplates. The museum collects, although restrictively, both new and supplementary material for its collection of book art.
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- Illuminated handwritten manuscript
- France, 1300 - 1399
- RKM 160-1913
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- Book purse
- England, 1300 - 1499
- RKM 519-1915
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- Handwritten manuscript
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Francesco d'Antonio del Cherico
- Italy, ca 1450
- RKM 20-1963
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- Bookbindings
- S. Bonaventura: Perustralis in Libri IV
- ca 1500
- RKM 3-1952
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- Bookbindings
- Biblia latina
- Italy, 1500 - 1599
- RKM 141-1910
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- Book
- Wernerska skissboken
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Johan Werner d.ä.
- Sweden, 1600 - 1699
- RKM 10-2015
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- Bookbindings
- The new testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- England, ca 1640 - 1650
- RKM 2-1951
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- Bookbindings
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Samuel Mearne
- London, 1643 - 1683
- RKM 444-1915
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- Bookbindings
- Selma Lagerlöf: Herr Arnes penningar
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Alf Wallander
- Stockholm, 1887 - 1905
- RKM 69-1983
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- Bookbindings
- Le Morte d'Arthur
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J. M. Dent & Co
- England, 1890-tal
- RKM 14-1955
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- Bookbindings
- Le Morte d'Arthur
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J. M. Dent & Co
- England, 1890-tal
- RKM 14:a-1955
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- Bookbindings
- Le Morte d'Arthur
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J. M. Dent & Co
- England, 1890-tal
- RKM 14:b-1955