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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST 9 Blasieholmstorg
Map 3 C1.  Kungsträdgården.
Practical Information @ 2, 55, 65, 76.
Exercisplan. Map 4 E3.
Tel 08-520 235 00. Two of the city’s oldest palaces
∑ modernamuseet.se are located in this square,
Open 10am–8pm Tue & Fri, flanked by two bronze horses.
10am–6pm Wed–Sun. The palace at No. 8 was built in
Closed 1 Jan, 24–25, 31 Dec the mid-17th century by Field
and some holidays. & combined
ticket with Swedish Architecture Marshal Gustaf Horn. It was
and Design Centre. 8 9 - rebuilt 100 years later, when it
0 = 7 ^ acquired the character of an Monument to the victims of the Holocaust
18th-century French palace. during World War II
Transport Foreign ambassadors and
@ 65. 4 Djurgårdsfärja. ministers lodged here when had been driven down to a
 Kungsträdgården.
they visited the capital, so it depth of 15 m (50 ft). It is
became known as the Ministers’ built in what the architect,
Palace. Later it became a base F W Scholander, called
for overseas administration and “ancient Eastern style”. The
Gallery Guide soon earned its present name synagogue can be visited
The large room on the entrance of Utrikesministerhotellet on guided tours during the
level is used for temporary (Foreign Ministry Hotel). Parts of summer. Alongside is the
exhibitions. Three rooms on the the building congregation’s assembly
same level have an alternating are now used room and library. Outside
selection of collections from the as offices by is a monument erected in
eras 1900–45, 1946–70 and the Musical 1998 in memory of
1971 to the present day. The Academy and the 8,000 victims of the
middle level has an auditorium, Swedish Institute. Holocaust whose
cinema and study gallery. Bååtska Palatset relations had been
Another entrance is at the stands nearby at rescued and taken
lowest level. No. 6. Its exterior to Sweden during
dates from 1669 Bronze horse on World War II.
and was designed Blasieholmstorg There is also an
Key by Tessin the Elder. Orthodox synagogue
In 1876–7 it was partly rebuilt in Södermalm. Its entrance is
Museum’s own collections
by F W Scholander for the just around the corner from
Temporary exhibitions
Freemasons, who still have Ragvaldsgatan 14C.
Non-exhibition space their lodge here.
Another interesting
complex of buildings can q Berns
be found on the square at Berzelii Park. Map 2 D4. Tel 08-566
No. 10. The façade which 322 00.  Kungsträdgården,
faces on to Nybrokajen, Östermalmstorg. @ 2, 55, 65, 76. 7
along the water’s edge, is an Where to Stay p284.
attractive example of the
Neo-Renaissance style of the This has been one of Stockholm’s
1870s and 1880s. most legendary restaurants and
entertainment venues since
1863. Both salons, with their
0 Synagogan stately galleries, magnificent
crystal chandeliers and elegant
Wahrendoffsgatan 3B. Map 3 C1.
Tel 08-587 858 24.  Kungsträd- mirrors, were restored to their
gården. @ 2, 55, 65, 76. original splendour by the British
u all year 9.15am Sat; Sep–May: designer and restaurateur
5:30pm Fri; Hebrew and partly English. Terence Conran to mark the
8 summer and by appointment. 7 new millennium.
Berns is one of Stockholm’s
It took most of the 1860s to biggest restaurants with seating
. The Child’s Brain (1914)
The surrealist Giorgio de Chirico build the Conservative Jewish for 400 diners. The gallery level,
gave his work the title The Ghost, community’s synagogue on with its beautifully decorated
but in the irrational spirit of the land reclaimed from the sea. dining rooms, was made
movement Louis Aragon renamed When it was inaugurated in famous by August Strindberg’s
it in a pamphlet about the artist’s 1870, the building was novel The Red Room (1879). The
1927 retrospective. standing on 1,300 piles which building also has a luxury hotel.

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