Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Cost and Hours:
100 kr, Tue-Sun 12:00-17:00, Thu until 20:00, closed
Mon, bus #69—not #69K—from downtown, tel. 08/662-5884,
www.thielska-
▲Biking the Garden Island
—In all of Stockholm, Djurgården is the natural
place to enjoy a bike ride. There's a good and reasonably priced bike-rental
and a world of park-like paths and lanes with harbor vistas to enjoy. Ask for
a free map and route tips when you rent your bike. Figure about an hour to
pedal around Djurgården's waterfront perimeter; it's mostly flat, though the
stretches that take you up and over the middle of the island can be temporar-
ily steep. A garden café at the eastern tip of the island offers a scenic break
midway through your pedal. For a longer ride, you can cross the canal to the
Ladugårdsgärdet peninsula (“Gärdet” for short), a swanky, wooded residen-
tial district just to the north.
▲Millesgården
—The villa and garden of Carl Milles is a veritable forest of
statues by Sweden's greatest sculptor. Millesgården is dramatically situated
on a bluff overlooking the harbor in Stockholm's upper-class suburb of Lid-
ingö. While the art is engaging and enjoyable, even the curators have little to
say about it from an interpretation point of view—so your visit is basically
without guidance. But in Milles' house, which dates from the 1920s, you can
see his north-lit studio and get a sense of his creative genius.
