Stockholm, explained
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
The Nordiska Museet (Nordic Museum) is Sweden’s largest museum of cultural history, holding roughly 1.5 million objects that document how people in Sweden — and more broadly the Nordic region — have lived, dressed, worked and furnished their homes from the 1520s to the present day. It occupies a purpose-built, castle-like structure on the island … Read more
Skansen is an open-air museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, opened in 1891, where more than 150 historic buildings — farmhouses, town houses, a church, workshops, a manor — have been physically moved from their original sites across Sweden and reassembled on one hill. An open-air museum, as a category, is a museum … Read more
The Vasa Museum holds the warship Vasa itself — an almost completely intact 17th-century vessel that sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628, sat on the seabed for 333 years, and was raised in 1961. The museum, on the island of Djurgården, was built around the ship and displays it alongside thousands … Read more
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