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Stockholm’s Best: Museums

Stockholm has more than 100 museums, Hallwylska museet
with remarkable collections covering Thanks to a method-
ical countess and her
every conceivable subject and interest. impeccable taste, this
The “Top Ten” shown here are of particular lavishly decorated
note. Kungliga Slottet (the Royal Palace), palace from the late
for instance, is effectively four museums 19th century has
become a magnificent
in one, while the most spectacular is the museum with a wide-
museum housing the Vasa warship, ranging collection of
salvaged from the depths of Stockholm’s objects displayed in
harbour after 333 years and now an an original setting.
international attraction.

Vasastaden

City

Blasieholmen
Medeltidsmuseet
Parts of the city wall from the 1530s can
be seen in this underground Medieval
museum, which focuses on the capital’s
origins. The wall’s reconstruction shows Skepps holmen
medieval building techniques. Gamla Stan

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Södermalm

The Royal Palace
In addition to its own
attractions, the Royal
Palace houses four
specialist museums:
Nationalmuseum the Treasury, featuring
The Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts, Sweden’s largest the State Regalia; the
art museum, has fine collections of 17th- and Royal Armoury;
18th-century Swedish paintings and handicrafts, Gustav III’s Museum of
17th-century Dutch and 18th-century French art. Antiquities; and the
Rubens’s Bacchanalia on Andros dates from the 1630s. Tre Kronor Museum.

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