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Nordiska museet
A statue of Karl X
Gustav greets visitors
arriving at this
enormous building.
Opened in 1907, it
houses many
different artifacts
illustrating Swedish
life and customs.

Nationalmuseum
This museum is Sweden’s largest art gallery,
and has collections of 18th- and 19th-century
Swedish paintings, applied arts and design,
18th-century French and 17th-century Dutch
art. Rubens’s Bacchanal on Andros dates from
the 1630s. The museum is closed until 2018.

Östermalm Skansen
The world’s first open-air museum, founded in
1891, shows the Sweden of bygone days with
farms and manor houses, urban scenes and
craftspeople at work. Nordic fauna and flora
are also on display.

Djurgården

Skepps-
Gamla Stan holmen

Moderna museet
Paradise (1966) by
Söder- Tinguely/de Saint Phalle Vasamuseet
malm
marks the way to A fatal capsizal in 1628 and a
Moderna museet, which successful salvage operation 333
houses remarkable years later gave Stockholm its most
collections of popular museum. The warship
international and Vasa is 95 per cent intact after
Swedish modern art. painstaking renovation.

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