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Museum of Northern Antiquities
museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Also known as: Museum for de nordiske Oldsager
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The Museum of Northern Antiquities was opened in Copenhagen in 1819 (it was there that its first director, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, developed the three-part system of classifying prehistory into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages). This museum was merged with three others (of ethnography, antiquities, and…
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