Game of Thrones meets Erik XIV and Elizabeth I - new exhibition at the Royal Armoury - Cision Wire (press release)

What has the Swedish 1500 talsregenten Erik XIV in common with the film’s Elisabeth I and fantasy king Joffrey Baratheon from the TV series Game of Thrones? In the spring exhibition POWER GAMES – a costume drama in the Armory meet historical and fictional characters. It is about power, violence and love, and how today’s popular uses of the past.

Game of Thrones (HBO) is one of the recent years’ most high-profile television shows. The story is set in a fantasy world inspired by clothing, environments, and events from several centuries and geographic locations. The Oscar-winning films Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age is fiction created in and for our time, but based on real events in Queen Elizabeth I of England’s life. Erik XIV life story is surrounded by drama and myths. He was crazy, married his mistress and had brutally murder their enemies. Sometimes reality exceeds fiction.

The costumes worn by the characters in Game of Thrones carries references to the Renaissance as well as contemporary science fiction. Elizabeth’s white Swarovski dress from Elizabeth: The Golden Age has no historical model but is designed to reinforce the image of a confident queen. Movie costumes on display for the first time in Sweden and presented thematically along with historical highlights. Erik XIV’s coronation robe and the robe his rival Erik Sture wore when he was assassinated on the orders of King Erik XIV is some of the few remaining 1500′s of garments in the world .

At the end of the exhibition is a room dedicated to the visitors’ own appetite for discovery. Here you can for example create your own historical “selfie” by trying the costumes and accessories. A number of unique works created by students from the College of Arts explores how textiles and clothing can communicate power and status.

“In the struggle for the throne win or you die”
Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones

Press Preview: March 12 at 9:30 in the Royal Armoury, Castle Hill 3, Stockholm.
registrations to press@lsh.se
Exhibition period : March 14, 2014 till January 4, 2015
Press Officer: Margareta Berglund Hamngren, press @ lsh.se, 08 402 30 15
Set design / design: Leo Thafvelin
Project : Monica Sargren
Exhibit Producers: Sofia Nestor & Malin Grundberg
Illustration: Beata Boucht
Graphic design: Charlotta Andersson

# Power Game

ABOUT Armory
In 1628 decided Gustavus Adolphus to the clothes that he had used in the campaign in Poland should be preserved uthi Rust Cammaren an everlasting memorial . It laid the foundation of the Royal Armoury, the oldest museum. Museum of the Royal history reflects the dramatic events, war and peace, for adults and children. Today, the Royal Armoury located in the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The museum is part of the state authority, the Royal Armoury and Skoklosters castle Foundation Hallwyl