Photography and filming
Photography for personal use
Photography and video recording for personal use is allowed in the museum's exhibitions. You're also welcome to share your material on social media. However, the use of tripods is not permitted. This decision is based on safety reasons and our aim to ensure that other museum visitors are not disturbed.
Do you have questions about photography or filming? Email your questions to: bilder@shm.se
Photography for productions
For questions regarding filming or photography for productions, such as documentaries, please contact our press service.
Email: press@historiska.se
Phone: +46 (0)8-519 553 04
Photography for researchers and students
For questions about filming or photographing objects that require object handling, for example, if the items are not on display, please contact us.
Email: samlingar@historiska.se
Images of objects
If you’re looking for images of our collections, you can search our database. Most images of objects from the collections are licensed under CC BY, which means they are free to use as long as the photographer and/or the Swedish History Museum is credited when the image is published.
Do you have questions about object images? Don't hesitate to contact us!
Email: bilder@shm.se
Search the Collections
Our collection is digitized, and we are constantly working to enrich the information about our objects and to increase the number of images. You can search among the images and objects already available in our online database. All information is free to use, and most of the media is licensed under open Creative Commons licenses. Some images depict copyright-protected works; through an extended collective license agreement with Bildupphovsrätt in Sweden (BUS), the National Historical Museums have the right to display these images on Search the Collections.
We share the database with the other museums that are part of the National Historical Museums. Therefore, you will find objects from the Economy Museum, the Hallwyl Museum, the Swedish History Museum, the Royal Armoury, Skokloster Castle, the Tumba Paper Mill Museum, and the Swedish Holocaust Museum in the database.