With more than 70 museums in Stockholm, you'll have no trouble finding something that interests you. Walk through traditional Swedish homes and buildings at the open-air museum of Skansen, or at the Vasamuseet gaze up at the massive 17th-century Vasa warship, salvaged after 300 years on the sea floor. The Historiska Museet has an impressive exhibit on the Vikings, while the Moderna Museet displays the likes of Picasso, Pollock and Warhol.
The Nordiska Museet, Sweden's national museum of cultural history, was the brainchild of Artur Hazelius, who also created Skansen....
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When it opened in 1958, Moderna Museet soon gained a reputation as one of the world's most ground-breaking contemporary art venues....
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Also known as the Hallwyl Museum
Enter the opulent world of Count and Countess Walther and Wilhelmina von Hallwyl in one of Stockholm's most eccentric and engaging museums....
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The story of Sweden at war, rather than its military infrastructure, is the museum's dominant theme, which may seem odd since Sweden has avoided conflict for the last 200 years....
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Sweden's largest art museum
Built in 1866 in the style of a northern Italian renaissance palace, the beautiful Nationalmuseum displays artwork from the Middle Ages to the present....
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