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Exploring Drottningholm

The Palace of Drottningholm is complemented by the Court
Theatre (Slottsteatern), the world’s oldest theatre still in active
use, the Theatre Museum (Teatermuseum) and the elegant
Chinese Pavilion (Kina Slott). The complex is situated on the
shores of Lake Mälaren, surrounded by Baroque and Rococo
gardens, and lush English-style parkland. In summer the
theatre stages opera and ballet; and the church is used for
High Mass and concerts.
Karl XI’s gallery at Drottningholm, featuring
the victory at Lund, 1667
Drottningholm Palace Area
staircase linking the two floors.
The “bureau” opposite the tiled
stove is also a sofa bed. The
Stockholm Oscar Room was refurbished by
Oscar I (1799–1859) and is
adorned by a tapestry dating
from the 1630s. After the
General’s Room, Karl XI’s Gallery
– which commemorates the
victory at Lund (1667) – and the
Sights Golden Salon, comes the
Queen’s Salon. Just as the
1 Palace adjoining State Room had
2 Chinese Pavilion portraits of all the European
0 metres 250 3 Palace Park monarchs, the portraits in the
4 Court Theatre and
0 yards 250 Queen’s Salon were of European
Theatre Museum queens. This floor finishes with
the Upper South Bodyguard
the Swedish army in 1658. Room, an anteroom to the State
The Palace Apartments Queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636– Room and lavishly decorated by
On entering the apartments, 1715) held audiences in the the Carove stucco artists and
the first thing that meets the Ehrenstrahl Salon, named after the ceiling painter Johan Sylvius.
eye is a Baroque corridor with a the artist whose paintings
view that frames part of the dominate the walls. More
gardens, in all their splendour. prominent guests were The Chinese Pavilion
The central part of the palace is received in the State Bedroom. On her 33rd birthday in 1753
dominated by the In Queen Lovisa Ulrika’s Queen Lovisa Ulrika was given a
staircase, crowned by a time this room was Chinese pavilion by her husband,
lantern with ceiling used for sleeping. Her King Adolf Fredrik. It had been
paintings by Meissen porcelain can manu factured in Stockholm
Ehrenstrahl. There are be seen in the Blue and the previous night it was
examples of Baroque Cabinet; the Library has shipped to Drottningholm
stucco work by her collection of more and assem bled a few hundred
Giovanni and Carlo Medallion showing than 2,000 books. metres from the palace. It had
Carove. Marble life and death Behind the Upper to be taken down after 10 years
statues of the nine Northern Guards be cause rot had set in, and was
muses and their pro tector, Room with a ceiling by Johan replaced by the Chinese Pavi lion
Apollo, are placed at the corners Sylvius is a Gustavian drawing
of the balustrades. room, with a bureau by Johan
The Green Salon is reached Niklas Eckstein. In 1777,
from the lower vestibule via the following Gustav III’s
Lower Northern Bodyguard assumption of power, the Blue
Room. This is the beginning of Salon was decorated in the
the main ceremonial suite, Neo-Classical style.
which continues with Karl X’s The Chinese Salon was used
Gallery where paintings as a private bedroom by King
illustrate his major military Adolf Fredrik. It is directly
exploit, the crossing of the ice above the Queen’s State The Chinese Pavilion, an extravaganza
in the Store Bælt (Great Belt) by Bedroom and there is a hidden in red and gold

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