Cultural Heritage

Baltic Region Heritage Committee

Baltic Region Heritage Committee promotes sustainable management of cultural heritage resources in the Baltic Sea Region. The mandate to create an action plan for the common heritage in the ...

Heritage Laboratory

The Heritage Laboratory of the Swedish National Heritage Board is a central facility for the development and application of heritage science, including conservation science, archaeometry and art ...

Historic Environment Laws

On these pages you will find Historic Environment Act (1988:950) and Historic Environment Ordinance (1988:1188).  The Swedish National Heritage Board had this legal text translated from Swedish ...

Human remains in museum collections

Human remains may have a personal, cultural, symbolic, spiritual or religious significance for many individuals and groups. This is why museums that manage collections of these kinds bear a ...

Research and Development

The Swedish National Heritage Board leads the work of the Cultural Heritage sector in strengthening the knowledge about the content and change of the cultural environment by supporting research ...

Return of cultural objects and human remains

Many different kinds of objects may be considered for return, and for a wide variety of reasons. Returning objects is often a complex process and each case should be examined on the basis of the ...

Kulturkulör - Traditional Swedish Colours

Kulturkulör – Traditional Swedish Colours shows a number of colour scales for linseed oil paint. It is aimed at professional painters and anyone else who wants to paint exterior and interior ...