Travel Reference
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Once in a Millennium: Stieg Larsson's Stockholm
With more than 65 million copies of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy
of novels in circulation—and both Swedish and Hollywood film adapt-
ations thrilling moviegoers worldwide—Stockholm has a new breed of
tourist. Fans of Larsson's punked-out computer hacker heroine Lisbeth
Salander and jaded journalist hero Mikael Blomkvist are stalking the
city'sneighborhoods,particularlySödermalm,justsouthoftheOldTown.
Stockholm's geography is key to Larsson's crime thrillers: Most of the
good guys live and work in the formerly working-class Södermalm, while
many of the villains hail from tony neighborhoods near Parliament and
City Hall, across the water.
If you come looking for Lisbeth or Mikael, the best place to start is the
City of Stockholm Museum
in Södermalm, near the Slussen T-bana stop
(70 kr, Tue-Sun 11:00-17:00, Thu until 20:00, closed Mon, Ryssgården,
tel. 08/5083-1620,
www.stadsmuseum.stockholm.se
)
. The museum hosts
adisplayofLarssonartifacts,includingareconstructionofMikaelBlomk-
vist's office at
Millennium
magazine, and offers Millennium walking tours
in English (120 kr, Wed at 18:00, Sat at 11:30) and a Millennium sights
map (40 kr).
A few blocks from the museum is the site of the fictional
Millennium
offices, above the Greenpeace headquarters at the corner of Götgatan
and Hökens Gata (really it's just apartments). Two real businesses in Sö-
dermalm figure prominently in the trilogy:
Kvarnen
, an old-style pub
where Lisbeth hangs out with an all-girl punk band (Tjärhovsgatan 4, near
the Medborgarplasten T-bana stop; see “Eating in Stockholm,” later); and
the
Mellqvist café
(Hornsgatan 78, near the Hornstull T-bana stop), where
the love-struck Lisbeth sees Mikael kiss his mistress.
Cost and Hours:
220 kr, increases to 320 kr on Sat, towels and robes
available for rent; open Mon-Fri 7:00-21:00, Sat 9:00-21:00, Sun 9:00-18:00,
