Culture in Stockholm - Museums

Museums

Stockholm is one of the most crowded museum-towns in the world with some 70 museums, visited by over 9 million people per year.

One of the most renowned museums is the Nationalmuseum, with the largest national collection of art: 16,000 paintings and 30,000 objects of art handicraft. The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

The Museum of Modern Art, or Moderna Museet, is Sweden's national museum of modern art. It has works by famous modern artists such as Picasso and Salvador Dalí.

Other notable museums in Stockholm include:

• Skansen - An open air heritage museum and zoo
• Vasa Museum, dedicated to the restored Vasa, a ship that sunk in 1628
• The Nordic Museum with art and design from the Nordic countries
• The Stockholm City Museum
• The Museum of Medieval Stockholm
• The National Museum of Science and Technology
• The National Maritime Museum
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• The Biological Museum, Swedish flora and fauna.
• The Aquaria Water Museum, featuring various aquatic environments.
• The Museum of the History of Wine and Liquor
• Millesgården - The home of sculptor Carl Milles.