A charming museum of contemporary art. We spent an entire morning walking through the galleries and…read moresaw some wonderful works. There are lovely grounds and outdoor sculptures as well. The museum has some sort of huge tubes outside and kids were zooming down the tubs having a fabulous time. We are a really delicious lunch in the museum cafe and I recommend it. I had a wonderful vegetarian lunch that was delicious and my husband had a salad with some really good smoked salmon. A lovely place to look at art and have lunch.

The Moderna Museet is Stockholm's museum for modern and contemporary art, located on the island of…read moreSkeppsholmen. The museum has an impressive permanent collection (pieces by Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Matisse, etc.). When we visited last week, I was really blown away by an exhibit made up of works from their permanent collection: "Pink Sails: Swedish Modernism in the Moderna Museet Collection." I wasn't familiar with too many Swedish artists, so it was a pleasure to explore this exhibit and experience art that was new to me! The museum is open late (until 8pm on Tuesdays and Fridays), which was great for us - it let us tag on a visit to the museum at the end of a full day of touristing around Gamla Stan. The museum is gorgeous, very modern, with a great gift shop, cafe, and restaurant. A really beautiful museum and well worth visiting if you're interested in modern and contemporary art.

We visited the National Museum one an afternoon in summer. It has something for everyone, included…read morea couple Picasso's as well as contemporary Swedish art. They also have a big section dedicated to Swedish design which was super cool too. We also had a bite in their cafe. The basement floor also has many bathroom stalls so you don't have to wait. We visited quite a few museums in our trip and this was definitely one of the best ones.

I love art museums and the Nationalmuseum is the largest art museum in Sweden. It is the state…read moremuseum and has exhibits with paintings, sculptures and design objects. It is one of Europe's oldest museums, dating back to 1792 (though this building did not house the collections until 1866). Tickets to the permanent collections are free. When I visited, the temporary exhibit was not something that appealed so I did not purchase a ticket for that one. Most of the paintings are Swedish artists I have never heard of but here and there were some names that I did recognize. Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne. There is a large Asian exhibit, a display of jewelry (brooches, bracelets and rings), pocketwatches, and much more. Expect two hours at minimum, a half day if you truly want to see everything. [Review 18727 overall - 61 in Sweden - 2250 of 2022.]

Love photography, love this museum. Visited couple back and still think about it once in awhile…read more Located on the waterfront (great view of the city), and the building it self is just a great architectural itself. The museum has several levels and well layout and organized. Staff are everywhere and friendly. On top level, there is a restaurant overlook the city. The view is just amazingly breathtaking, service is great. Foods and drinks are also good too. On street level, before you leave the museum, a small but plenty of variety of shops for shopping. There are several exhibitions throughout the year and they're all fantastic. Love this museum.

So much depends on what's on exhibit and how much you enjoy it. Setting that aside, this museum was…read morefully installed on our visit, so we saw three major exhibits. Their staging of exhibitions and curation are world-class. Their cafe and restaurant on their top floor is spectacular, and can satisfy a range of wants from dining to a coffee. Their prices for admission are fair. Plan for 1.5-2 hours for your visit, excluding time in the cafe or dining, and getting to and from the museum. We'd go back. TIP wine and other drinks are available beginning around 18 at the galleries entrance TIP account for walking to and from Slussen (600-750 m), which is the nearest transit

Stunning collection of art, furniture, weapons and baroque style rooms in a great location. There's…read moreeven a beautiful courtyard area where you can grab a cocktail after if you come in the evening like we did! Check this out - I enjoyed this museum more than the royal palace as there are English cards in each room with wonderful explanations of how the rooms were used and a glimpse into the family's life. Also it is free! So stay 10 min or hours.

The museum is housed in a historical building in central Stockholm and faces Berzelii Park. The…read morehouse used to belong to the Count and Countess von Hallwyl, but was donated to the state in 1920s. The museum takes you back in time to late 19th century and strikes its visitors with opulence and glitter of the rich aristocratic family. Impressive collection of paintings, furniture, China, and weaponry is displayed in rooms of grand nature decorated in various styles. An window into a private life of aristocracy! It's free to attend, but you would have to pay 70 SEK for a guided tour. Tour will also get you an access into certain rooms closed for general public.

This place was highly recommended in the Eick Steves Scandanavia guide. He was right - thoroughly…read moreenjoyed this museum where a 17th century warship is the star attraction. Took a free 25 minute tour - very useful for explaining the history behind the ship and its unfortunate sinking - the Titanic of Sweden. The ship itself is breathtaking! Lovingly restored and hopefully they can keep it around for posterity. There's a nice film to watch that provides additional background. Great multi floor exhibits and viewing platforms for the Vasa. Highly recommend!!!

What an amazing experience. I was so looking forward to visiting Vasa prior to getting to Stockholm…read moreand it didn't disappoint. What an amazing place to visit. An almost 400 yr old boat 95% intact. The museum itself is keep climate controlled to maintain the temp and humidity. The workers couldn't have been more accommodating. There's an 18 movie you can watch ahead of time that gives you some history of the Vasa. The museum is very clean and loaded with artifacts. A truly great experience.

We went here on a group tour and toured two rooms: The Blue Room, where all of the Nobel Prizes…read moreare awarded (except for the Peace Prize, which is awarded in Olso, Norway) and the Golden Room, where the Nobel Prize reception takes place. Construction took twelve years, from 1911 to 1923. Nearly eight million dark red bricks were used. The Blue Room was supposed to be covered with blue marble, but the designer liked the bricks so much, the marble brick facade was never installed. The staircase to the organ and the balconies are made from a beautiful green marble from Sweden. The floor is a light grey limestone, and the columns are made from a red and green marble from Sweden The Golden Room has walls that are covered with more than 18 million pieces of gold and glass mosaic, created by the artist Einar Forseth. The mosaics contain approximately 18 kilograms (40 lbs) of 23.5-carat gold leaf. As of today, that's 2.25 million US dollars worth of gold. The mosaics represent the history of Sweden, as well as Swedish values. It's hard to describe what this banquet room for the Nobel Prize winners look like, so I recommend viewing the photos I've attached, or better yet, go to the City Hall's website and view this movie: https://stadshuset.stockholm/stadshuset-play/stadshusets-salar-en-digital-visning-av-stadshuset/. It's in Swedish, but you'll get the idea. A visit to a City Hall sounds boring, and many times it is. However, this is WELL worth a visit, when you are in Stockholm. I promise you will be impressed.

Designed by Ragnar Östberg, Stokcholms Stadshus (Stockholm City Hall) is a STUNNER. We reserved a…read moretour of the interior and purchased tickets that allow us to climb up to the top of the tower for the views. But the architecture of city hall? Incredible. Completed in 1923, it seems so much older. And each space in City Hall is so different, with different architectural styles, inspirations, and decor. This is the kind of building you buy books about. A 45-minute tour just isn't long enough! If they had a two hour tour, I'd have taken it. They release the tickets either the week of or the week before, but they still fill out. The tour groups are large, which limits the spaces you can see, but I'm still so glad we were able to get tickets for a tour of this amazing building! You learn about the building, the architect, the building's connection to the Nobel Prize...! And it's just incredibly stunning, too. One of the highlights of our time in Stockholm.

Hate to say this but this should be the 1st to visit before the one in Oslo or if you visited Oslo,…read moreyou can skip this one. Comparing to Oslo, this is just not that impressive at all. It's still good but just packed with tourist and not much to learn from. Yes you have to pay for it but this one is WAY smaller and less informative. Nice to visit if you got a lot of free time from my personal opinion.

This Novel Prize Museum was underwhelming compared to the one we visited in Oslo. It was good that…read morethe admission was included in our Go City Pass so we did not need to pay for it on its own. Inside there were about four main rooms to see. The first room contained various scientific devices and some time of donation ceremony was in process. Overhead was a track containing all the photos of previous winners. The second room was the entrance where the tour started and contained overviews of the latest prize winners. The third room contained a small collection of personal effects of Alfred Nobel and the last room was more geared to children. Overall a bit dry on the content and difficult to keep one engaged if one wasn't so interested in some of the projects presented. It's skippable in my opinion.

Grand looking building that's been here a long time. Exhibitions about the earth, oceans, fossils,…read moredinosaurs. It has always been very heavy on the fossils and bones. Your future paleontologists will love it (parents reading the degree warning label 'No jobs available' maybe not so much lol). Free to enter, but tickets required for the IMAX cinema planetarium dome. Vivid pictures and sound effects Makes you feel like you are there roaming the planet together with the T-Rexes, Stegosauruses and Brontosauruses. Of course creationists already believe that we did and probably think that Jurassic Park is based on a true story. Creationists should say Hello to the Easter bunny from me. The museum is good for families. Hot dog stand outside and the on site restaurant is Ok.

I'm not a fan of museums, to be honest, but if I had to pick one, I'd always choose Natural…read moreHistory. Science appeals more to me than art in that sense, and this place isn't any different. The building looks impressive from the outside, but it feels a bit cramped in the inside. It's probably a number of wild kids running around and screaming inside the museum that might all the difference, who knows? *shrugs shoulders* but if you might want to avoid weekend (we had no choice) to enjoy this museum in quiet and peace. The museum itself has free entrance but a ticket is required to go to cosmonova (some sort of planetarium film thing, I suppose) so we stick to the exhibition only. Even that, there are so many to choose from and we wouldn't be done in one day, so we chose to go to the polar region and the Swedish nature. Both exhibitions are very entertaining and educational. I got to know a lot more that I thought I already know about these two regions and when you're in Sweden, you have to check out how big a moose actually is (yes, I have never seen one for real) or that how fluffy and white arctic fox is - especially if you have a fjällräven bag :) (good thing that the fox itself is only just a logo in the bag!) A must go for a science lover like me.

While it can't be compared with MoMa and other world class modern art museums this is a very decent…read morecollection of Scandinavian and international artists. The exhibitions are changing frequently, so be prepared for a surprise when you visit Stockholm again.

I found this museum to be really good. It may have been helped by the fact that when I was there…read morethat there was a phenomenal Max Ernst exhibit that qualifies as one of the top 5 modern exhibits I've ever seen. The museum itself is a little tough to find and can't be reached directly by the tunnelbana (subway/metro). It isn't helped by the fact that they like to make direct you to the museum with very post-modern signs that ENORMOUS arrows but the name of the museum in a tiny, almost illegible font. It's a spacious museum, and a somewhat strangely organized. The special exhibit was on the top floor, but the rest of the museum on the bottom floor. It's tough to explain, you'd have to go see it for yourself to understand. But it's not all that intuitive. But it is well lit which always critical for a modern museum. Another bonus is that it's directly connected to the Arkitekturmuseum which is awesome, since you can get a discounted rate when you buy a ticket for both.

Take the orange line and get off Ropsten, you can take a bus or walk on a small bridge and right…read moreaway turn right and walk up the hill just a little, there will be stairs on the right which will take you to the main road just keep walking to the right , about 2 km the entire trip. It took me more like 3km because I got lost so hence the detail review. 100sek or $15 to enter and when you take that first step inside...you have a "wow" feeling. I had this rush of air enter my lungs and I had to exhale slowly :) It's just so stunning. High up above water are these incredible sculptures, just feels so soreal, you feel small and just at ah. Perfect place to take your time and walk around, enjoy a book or a tea/coffee. Cafe is on the premises.

Outdoor is another world, the real city is within the concept of the Milles couple that decided to…read morecreate a surreal vision in a dynamic city, such as Stockholm. The incredible touch of the operas is a feeling you can have even in a cold winter. Must be seen.