9 August 2017
Dance Museum. Stockholm has museums for the oddest thing. I thought it was free entrance as stated in the website but it was apparently not updated, and the entrance fee is SEK120. Since no one was manning the counter, I went in unaware that one needs to pay. I only found out when I walked out of the museum and a tourist got stopped at the counter that he needed to pay.
Dansmuseet (the Dance Museum) is a museum for the performing and visual arts located in Stockholm, Sweden. Opened in 1953 in the basement of the Royal Swedish Opera, it originally displayed a large collection of dance-related art that belonged to Rolf de Maré, a leader of the Ballets suédois in Paris from 1920–25. In 1969, a library, named after the Swedish dancer, Carina Ari was endowed by Ari and attached to the museum with Bengt Hägar as its curator. The library contains the most comprehensive archive of literature on dance in Northern Europe. The museum is currently located at Drottninggatan 17. The library, receives no state funds, as it is privately endowed. The majority of its collection are materials from Western Europe which date between 1500 and 1850, a journal collection dating at the turn of the 20th century, and a video library of thousands of films. There is also a large collection of books on Russian dance. Source from Wikipedia.
There was a short play on the different types of dances in the main hall. I recognised 2 movies from the plays - Mary Poppins and Devdas.
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