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Junibacken is a children’s cultural centre on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, built around the world of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren — creator of Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Karlsson-on-the-Roof. It combines a narrated train ride through scenes from her books, a full-size reconstruction of Pippi’s house, a stage for children’s theatre, and … Read more
What is the Spritmuseum? Spritmuseum — the “Museum of Spirits” — is Stockholm’s museum of alcohol and drinking culture, on the island of Djurgården. It covers how Sweden has made, sold, taxed, rationed and drunk alcohol over the past few centuries, and it houses the Absolut Art Collection, works commissioned by the vodka brand Absolut … Read more
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde is a former private residence on the Djurgården peninsula in Stockholm, built for Prince Eugen (1865–1947), a member of the Swedish royal family and a working landscape painter. On his death he left the entire estate — house, gallery, park and collection — to the Swedish state, with the condition that it … Read more
What is Thielska Galleriet? Thielska Galleriet is an art museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, housed in a private villa built between 1905 and 1907 for the banker Ernest Thiel. It holds his collection of late-19th and early-20th-century Nordic art, including works by Edvard Munch, Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Eugène Jansson and Bruno … Read more
Medeltidsmuseet — the Museum of Medieval Stockholm — is a museum built directly around archaeological remains uncovered beneath the city centre in the late 1970s. It sits underground, beneath the bridge Norrbro, between Gustav Adolfs Torg and the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament building). Rather than removing what was found, the city built the museum in … Read more
The Nobel Prize Museum is a museum in Stockholm’s old town dedicated to the history and the recipients of the Nobel Prize. It occupies the former Stock Exchange Building on Stortorget, the main square of Gamla Stan, and its exhibitions explain how the prizes came about, who has won them, and what winning one actually … Read more
What is the ABBA Museum? ABBA The Museum is a permanent exhibition on Djurgården in Stockholm dedicated to the pop group ABBA, built around original stage costumes, instruments, awards and a reconstruction of the band’s recording studio. It opened in May 2013 and is run as a private museum, not by a national or municipal … Read more
What is Fotografiska? Fotografiska is a privately owned museum of photography in Stockholm, housed in a former customs building on the Södermalm waterfront. It opened in 2010 and runs a programme of rotating photography exhibitions rather than holding a single fixed permanent collection. It is not a national or state museum — it is a … Read more
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s national museum of fine art and design, standing on the Blasieholmen peninsula in central Stockholm. It holds the state’s collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, furniture and decorative arts spanning roughly the 16th century to the early 20th, alongside a modern design collection reaching into the present. Where is Nationalmuseum, and what … Read more
Moderna Museet is Sweden’s national museum of modern and contemporary art, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm. Founded in 1958, it holds a collection built around European modernism — Picasso, Matisse, Dalí — alongside deep Nordic holdings, a major photography archive, and postwar and contemporary work. What kind of museum is Moderna … Read more
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