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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST 9 Blasieholmstorg
Map 4 C1.  Kungsträdgården.
Practical Information @ 2, 55, 62, 65, 76.
Exercisplan.
Map 5 E3. Two of the city’s oldest palaces
Tel 08-520 235 00. are located in this square,
Open 10am–6pm Wed & Thu; flanked by two bronze horses.
11am–6pm Sat & Sun; The palace at No. 8 was built in
10am–8pm Tue & Fri. Closed the mid-17th century by Field
Mon, 1 Jan, Easter, midsummer Marshal Gustav Horn. It was
eve, 24–25 & 31 Dec 8 Eng: rebuilt 100 years later, when it Monument to the victims of the Holocaust
summer. 7 0 9 - =
∑ modernamuseet.se acquired the character of an during World War II
18th-century French palace.
Transport Foreign ambassadors and depth of 15 m (50 ft). It is
@ 65. 4 Djurgårds färja. ministers started to lodge here built in what the architect,
 Kungsträd gården.
when they visited the capital, so F W Scholander, called “ancient
it became known Eastern style”.
as the Ministers’ Alongside this synagogue,
Gallery Guide Palace. Later it which can be visited on
The large room on the entrance became a base for guided tours during
level is used for temporary overseas admin- the summer, is the
exhibitions. Three rooms on the istration and soon congregation’s
same level have alternat ing earned its present assembly room and
collections from three eras: name of Utrikes- library. Outside is a
1900–45, 1946–70 and 1971– ministerhotellet monument erected in
present. The middle level has an (Foreign Ministry Bronze horse on 1998 to the memory
auditorium, a cinema and an Hotel). Parts of the Blasieholmstorg of 8,000 victims of the
exhibition gallery. The lowest building are now used Holocaust whose
level (not shown) has an entrance. as offices by the Musical Academy relations had been rescued
and the Swedish Institute. and taken to Sweden during
Bååtska Palatset stands World War II.
Key nearby at No. 6. Its restored There is also an Orthodox
exterior dates from 1669 and synagogue in the city centre,
Museum’s own collections
was designed by Tessin the reached through the Jewish
Temporary exhibitions Elder. In 1876–7 it was partly Centre (Judiska Centret) on
Non-exhibition space rebuilt by F W Scholander for Nybrogatan at No. 19.
the Freemasons, who still have
their lodge here.
Another interesting complex q Berns
of buildings can be found on Berzeli Park, Nackströmgatan 8.
the square at No. 10. The façade, Map 3 D4. Tel 08-566 322 00. 
which faces on to Nybrokajen, Kungsträdgården, Östermalmstorg.
along the water’s edge, is an @ 2, 55, 62, 65, 76. 7 ∑ berns.se
attractive example of the See also Where to Stay p159.
Neo-Renaissance style of
the 1870s and 1880s. This has been one of Stock-
holm’s most legendary
restaurants and entertainment
0 Synagogan venues since 1863. Both salons,
with their stately galleries,
Wahrendorffsgatan 3. Map 4 C1. Tel
08-587 858 00.  Kungsträdgården. magnificent crystal chandeliers
@ 7, 55, 62, 65, 76. u 8am Mon, and elegant mirrors, were
Thu, Fri; 5:30pm Sat; Hebrew, partly restored to their original
Swedish. 8 15 Jun–4 Sep daily, and splendour by the British
on request. 7 ∑ jfst.se designer Sir Terence Conran
to mark the new millennium.
It took most of the 1860s to Berns is one of Stockholm’s
build the Conservative Jewish biggest restaurants, with
. The Child’s Brain (1914) community’s syna gogue on seating for 400 diners.
The surrealist Giorgio de Chirico what was once the seabed. The gallery level, with its
gave his work the title The Ghost, When it was inaug urated in beautifully decorated dining
but Louis Aragon renamed it in a 1870, the synagogue was rooms, was made famous by
pamphlet about the artist’s 1927 standing on 1,300 piles, which August Strindberg’s novel
retrospective exhibition. had been driven down to a The Red Room (1879).

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