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2 Stockholms of Larsson’s best-selling
Stadsmuseum Millennium books (The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Ryssgården. Map 4 B5. Tel 08-508 316 series), which are set in
00.  Slussen. @ 2, 3, 43, 53, 55, 76. Södermalm. The tours are
Closed for renovation until Sep 2018. 2 hours long and start at
8 ^ 7 = - ∑ stadsmuseet. Bellmansgatan 1, home
stockholm.se
of character Mikael
Hemmed in between the traffic Blomkvist. Tours in English
roundabouts of Slussen and the take place on Saturdays
steep hill up to Mosebacke Torg at 11:30am even during Almgrens Sidenväveri (silk mill), now a museum with
is Stockholms Stadsmuseum the renovation period. working 19th-century looms
(City Museum). It is housed in a Tickets must be bought
late 17th-century building online in advance. when it carried 1.8 million
originally designed by Tessin people between Slussen
the Elder as Södra Stadshuset and Mosebacke Torg.
(Southern City Hall). After a fire, 3 Katarinahissen The lift is now closed to the
it was completed by Tessin the Stadsgården. Map 4 C5.  Slussen. public; however, there is a mod-
Younger in 1685. It has been @ 2, 3, 43, 53, 55, 76. Closed to the ern lift to reach the restaurant
used for various pur poses over public. 0 J and the veranda at the top of the
the centuries, including law building, from where amazing
courts and dungeons, schools Katarinahissen is the oldest of views can still be enjoyed.
and city-hall cellars, theatres Stockholm’s “high-rise” attractions.
and churches. It became the The 38-m (125-ft) high lift was 4 Almgrens Siden­
city museum in the 1930s. opened to the public in March
The museum, which is closed 1883 and is still a prominent väveri & Museum
for renovation until autumn silhouette on the Söder skyline. Repslagargatan 15a. Map 9 D2.
2017, documents the history of The first Swedish neon sign was Tel 08-642 56 16. Open 10am–4pm
Stockholm. During the erected here in Mon–Fri, 11am–3pm Sat (25 Jun–
renovation period it 1909 – a legendary 6 Aug: 11am–3pm Mon–Fri). 8 1pm
is organising daily advertisement for Mon, Wed & Sat. & = ∑ kasiden.se
city walks (most in Stomatol tooth-
Swedish). The city’s paste. Since the Karl August Almgren was the
main stages of 1930s, the sign has founder of Almgren’s silk-
devel opment are Stomatol neon sign been placed on a weaving mill, now a museum,
described in a on Katarinahissen nearby rooftop. in 1833. While on a study tour
permanent exhi- The original lift was to Lyon and Tours in France
bition, and there are also regular driven by steam, but it switched in 1825, Almgren learned
temporary exhibitions. to electricity in 1915. In the about the punch-card
The library has a large 1930s it was replaced by a new system, which was one
archive of pictures and a lift, when the Cooperative of the secrets of France’s
documentary room. There Association (KF) built its large dominance of the silk business.
are also children’s acti vities, office complex at Slussen. In its Armed with this information,
concerts and lectures. first year the lift was used by he returned to Sweden with
The museum’s Stieg Larsson more than a million passengers, designs for modern looms
Millennium Tour visits the world but its record year was 1945, and opened his own mill. It
soon became a leader in the
market, which in the 1700s
had seen the establishment
of more than 30 silk-weaving
mills in Stockholm.
The Almgren family
continued the business until
1974, when the mill finally
closed. Everything was left
intact, and the mill took on a
new role in 1991 as a living
museum. In the weaving room
there is a museum shop selling
textiles. The area where the old
steam-driven machinery stood
is now used as a banqueting
room with well-preserved
Katarinahissen with Stockholms Stadsmuseum in the background 19th-century decorations.

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