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Moderna Muséet
Modern Art Museum • Exercisplan 2 • Tues 10am-8pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm • 100kr; 140kr with Arkitekturmuséet •
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modernamuseet
.se • Kungsträdgården T-bana
On Skeppsholmen itself, Stockholm's
Moderna Muséet
is one of the better modern art
collections in Europe, with a comprehensive selection of work by some of the twentieth
century's leading artists divided into three periods: 1900-39, 1940-69 and 1970 to the
present day. Take a look at Dali's monumental
Enigma of William Tell
, showing the
artist at his most conventionally unconventional, and Matisse's striking
Apollo
. Look
out also for Picasso's
Guitar Player
and
Spring
, plus a whole host of Warhol,
Lichtenstein, Kandinsky, Miró, Magritte and Rauschenberg.
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Arkitekturmuséet
Architecture Museum • Exercisplan 4 • Tues 10am-8pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm • 60kr; 140kr with Moderna Muséet •
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arkitekturmuseet
.se • Kungsträdgården T-bana
Next door to the
Moderna Muséet
is the
Arkitekturmuséet
, serving up a taste of
Swedish architecture through the ages in one of the most inspired buildings in the city
- there are lots of glass walls and bright, airy exhibition space. The permanent
exhibition, Architecture in Sweden - Function, Design and Aesthetic through the
Ages, outlines some of the core themes of pan-Swedish architectural styles, and is
housed alongside a number of temporary displays on construction styles.
Östasiatiska Muséet
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities • Skeppsholmen 41 • Tues 11am-8pm, Wed-Sun 11am-5pm • 60kr •
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ostasiatiska.se •
Kungsträdgården T-bana
A steep climb up the northern tip of Skeppsholmen brings you to the
Östasiatiska
Muséet
. A visit here is half a day well spent: you'll be rewarded by an array of objects
displaying incredible craftsmanship, including many from China, the favourite hunting
ground of Swedish archeologists. The two main exhibitions, “The Middle Kingdom”
and “China before China”, tackle 5000 years of imperial Chinese history through a
series of engaging artefacts, including just about anything you care to mention in
porcelain. There are fifth-century Chinese tomb figurines, intricate ceramics from the
seventh century onwards and fine Chinese paintings on paper and silk. Alongside
these, take a look at the astounding assembly of sixth-century Buddhas, Indian
watercolours, gleaming bronze Krishna figures and a magnificent set of samurai
armour, a gift from the Japanese crown prince in the 1920s.
The city centre: Norrmalm
Immediately to the north of Gamla Stan is the commercial heart of modern
Stockholm,
Norrmalm
, a compact area full of shops and offices, restaurants, bars and
cinemas, always bustling with people and street life - unfortunately, it also has a high
count of ugly modern buildings.
Gustav Adolfs torg
Down on the waterfront, beside Norrbron, is
Gustav Adolfs torg
, more a traffic island
than a square these days. A statue of King Gustav II Adolf marks the centre of the
square, between the Opera and the Foreign Ministry opposite. Look out, too, for
fishermen pulling salmon out of
Strömmen
, the fast-flowing stretch of water that winds
its way through the centre of the city. Since the seventeenth century, Stockholmers have
had the right to fish this outlet from Lake Mälaren to the Baltic; landing a catch here
