Museums in Stockholm
With about 50 museums and over 9 million visitors a year, Stockholm offers its visitors a unique cultural experience. On this page we will introduce you to (almost) all the museums, as well as our top 10 picks for the best museums in Stockholm. Many museums are also free of charge. We tell you which ones.
List of all museums in Stockholm
In the following list you will find a list of the most important museums, roughly sorted by category. Many of the museums are free of charge, these are marked with a green smiley. The museums with entrance fee can be visited much cheaper with the Stockholm Pass.
Cultural History
- Armémuseum
- Haga Park Museum
- Hallwylska Museum
- Historical Museum
- Jewish Museum
- Living History Forum
- Royal Armoury
- Stockholm Castle
- Stockholm City Museum
- Maritime History Museum
- Medieval Museum
- Skansen Open Air Museum
- Stockholm Länsmuseum
- VasaMuseum(Vasamuseet)
- Viking Museum Vikingaliv
Art and architecture
- ArkDes (Architecture and Design Centre)
- Photography Museum
- Liljevalchs Art Hall
- Museum of Modern Art
- Coin Cabinet
- National Museum
- Nordic Museum
- Magasin 3 (art gallery)
- Thielska galleriet
- Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde
- Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities
Nature and technology
- Aquaria Vattenmuseum (closed since September 2018)
- Biological Museum
- Botanical Garden
- Butterfly House in Haga Park
- Natural History Museum
- Museum at the Observatory
- Technical Museum
More museums
- Bergrummet Toy Museum (Tidö Collection of Toys & Comics)
- Ethnographic Museum
- Junibacken
- Music Museum
- Nobel Museum
- Mediterranean Museum
- East Asian Museum
- Postal Museum
- Toy museum
- Tramway Museum
- Strindberg Museum
- Dance Museum
- Wine & Schnapps Museum
- Båthall 2
Haga Park Museum is located in one of the copper tents (koppartält) in the beautiful Haga Park. Visitors are shown the history of the park with its buildings and people.
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Vikingaliv
Viking Museum in Stockholm
The new Viking Museum "Vikingaliv" in Stockholm was inaugurated in April 2017. It is located on the island of Djurgården, right next to the Vasa Museum.
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Gustav III:s antique museum
Stockholm Castle Art Museum
Gustav III:s Antique Museum is the oldest art museum in Sweden. It is located in the northeast wing of Stockholm Castle and displays mainly antique sculptures that the Swedish King Gustav III (1746 - 1792) had personally purchased during his trip to ...
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Vasa Museum
The most visited museum in Scandinavia
The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet), located on the island of Djurgården, exhibits the Vasa, the world's only preserved 17th century ship. The Vasa Museum is one of Stockholm's most outstanding tourist attractions and the most visited museum in ...
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Swedish National Museum
Sweden's largest art museum
The State National Museum in Stockholm is Sweden's largest art and design museum. It mainly displays paintings, sculptures, graphics, miniatures, drawings and handicrafts from the 16th century to the present day. The collection consists of around 700,000 objects and also includes well-known works by world-famous artists such as Rembrandt, Manet and ...
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Skansen
The oldest open-air museum in the world
The "living museum" Skansen is an open-air museum, animal park and popular destination on the island Djurgården in the center of Stockholm. Approximately 150 buildings from all regions of Sweden have been gathered here, in which traditional Swedish customs are shown ...
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Nobel Prize Museum
Museum around Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize Museum (until 2019: Nobelmuseet) is located at Stortorget in the center of Gamla Stan, Stockholm's old town. In addition to the life of Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a wealth of information about the Nobel Prize is on display, as well as about the lives and works ...
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Nordic Museum
Sweden's largest museum of cultural history
Since 1907, the Nordic Museum has been located in a magnificent museum building on the Djurgården peninsula, not far from the Vasa Museum and Grö...