Armémuseum

The current museum building, one wing of which houses the archives, was designed in 1762 by Carl Johan Cronstedt as a storage and workshop for artillery equipment. Construction took place between 1763 and 1770.

In 1879 the Artillery Museum was opened here. A few years later, two more floors were added to the fabric building, giving it its current appearance. The Artillery and Engineering College taught officers here.

In 1932, the Artillery Museum was closed for renovation and reopened in 1943 under the new name Armémuseum. In 1963, the museum gained access to the entire building.

Since 1935, the building has been a national monument. The museum building is owned by the Swedish state and managed by the National Property Board.

The Army Museum's archives contain a large collection of materials related to military history.

The image collection contains around 150,000 photographs of military activities. Many of them are environmental images, buildings, portraits and group photos, as well as images of objects from the Army Museum's collections. There is also a large collection of drawings and sketches. The image collection also includes posters, copperplate engravings and lithographs.

The archive also contains collections of correspondence, diaries, memoirs and transcripts of documents from the time of the Great Power to the present day. The oldest document in the archive is dated 1571.The Army Museum's archives contain a few collections related to the Holocaust. These include digital copies of photographs that Bertil Fröderberg took with his own camera during his assignment as a chauffeur during the White Bus rescue operation. There are also Fröderberg's notebooks, correspondence and other archival material relating to his travels with the Swedish Red Cross detachments in Germany and Poland from 1945 to 1947.

The archive also holds digital copies of Raoul Wallenberg's personal calendar from his time in Budapest. The calendar was archived in Moscow and remained there for over 40 years before being returned in the late 1980s to Raoul's half-sister Nina Lagergren. The original is privately owned but is on loan from the Armémuseum and is on display in the museum's exhibition.