ABBA The Museum will become the home of ABBA’s collected works, set to be showcased in a contemporary, musical and interactive exhibition that allows the audience to get close to their favourite band. ABBA The Museum is a part of the new Swedish Music Hall of Fame, and the tickets will be valid throughout the building. In addition to the two permanent exhibitions ‘the History of Swedish Popular Music’ and ‘Hall of Fame’, Swedish Music Hall of Fame will also host temporary, mostly contemporary music exhibitions. The 5,000 sq. meter building, located at Djurgårdsvägen 68, Stockholm, includes 2,000 sq. meters of exhibition space, of which a considerable amount is dedicated to ABBA The Museum. The museum is counting on 200.000-250.000 of Swedish and international visitors during 2013.

ABBA remains Sweden’s most successful band of all time, with sales of 378 million albums around the world. ABBA The Museum will span the band’s career all the way from the start in 1970, via the breakthrough with ’Waterloo’ in 1974, the grand world tours and finally, the split in 1983. Since then, ABBA has lived on through a wide range of musical projects run by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, whose musical ’Mamma Mia!’ revived the public’s interest in ABBA’s music yet again. An interest that never seems to fade – earlier this year, ’ABBA Gold’ was officially named the best-selling CD ever in England.

The great search for all things related to abba’s music, lyrics,stage costumes, musicals and films has gone on for quite some time. and swedish Music hall of Fame provides the perfect framework for it, says original abba member björn Ulvaeus.

The ABBA museum forms part of the new Swedish Music Hall of Fame, a 2,000-square-meter exhibition space that features a mix of permanent and temporary exhibitions from 1920 to the present. Two other permanent collections, “The Story of Swedish Popular Music” and the Hall of Fame itself will open at the same time.

In addition to the exhibitions, the building will house Melody, a 50-room boutique hotel, and an American steakhouse-inspired restaurant.

Aquaria Vattenmuseum, is a conservation-themed aquarium complete with steamy tropical jungle, sharks and electric-blue surgeon fish.

At Aquaria, you can explore the tropical rain forest, the seven seas and the Nordic lakes plus learn how it feels to be right in the midst of a thunderstorm in the rain forest.

Get close to sharks or follow free swimming sea trout as they leap from the Baltic Sea right into the museum. Relax in the coffee shop and enjoy its stunning sea views.

Biologiska museet is a museum exhibits a collection of stuffed European birds and mammals in dioramas.

Situated in the beautiful surroundings of Djurgården in central Stockholm gives you the oportunity to study a comprehensive collection of Scandinavian birds and mammals in their natural habitat.

A unique feature of these exhibitions is that no artificial light is used.

The stuffed animals can be seen in a variety of landscapes representing different typical Swedish landscapes. Decoration by the famous nature-painter Bruno Liljefors.

Opened in 2006, Bonniers Konsthall is a venue for Swedish and international contemporary art.

The Bonniers Konsthall art gallery is a leading institution for Swedish and international contemporary art. Sweden’s most cutting-edge art gallery, designed by Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, offers a variety of exciting exhibitions of the latest art. The gallery also contains an art gallery shop and café and restaurant “Spetsen”.

Through exhibitions, seminars, and publications, it aims to support the emergence and promotion of encounters with new art.

Bonniers Konsthall works with artists who are at the beginning of their careers, while also giving more established artists an opportunity to create new works. With its main emphasis on exhibitions, commissions produced in-house, and collaborations with Swedish and international art institutions, the venue shows a varied program of extensive solo exhibitions, thematic group exhibitions, and smaller art events.

Färgfabriken is an art venue and a “laboratory of the contemporary” with a multidisciplinary approach to art, making it possible to challenge traditional perceptions of art, society and architecture. It is based in a factory building dating from 1889 in Liljeholmen.

Fotografiska is one of the world’s largest meeting places for contemporary photography.

Opened in 2010, this musuem presents an large exhibitions and about 20 smaller exhibitions annually, where you can see works of Annie Leibovitz or Gus van Sant, between others.

In addition to the large exhibition, Fotografiska also houses a book and souvenir shop, a restaurant, a photo gallery. In the bar on the top floor you will find one of Stockholm’s very best vantage points.

Here you can also find an academy, bistro, cafe, bar, conference rooms, museum shop, gallery, and event spaces.

Hallwyl Museum (Swedish: Hallwylska museet) is a Swedish national museum housed in a historical building.

Built in 1893–1898 to the design of Isak Gustaf Clason for Count Walther von Hallwyl and his wife, Wilhelmina. It was created to accommodate the office of the count and the extensive art collection of the countess.

The countess's catalog totaled 78 volumes, so you can imagine the amount of decorative art on display. Open to the public since 1938, the collection includes classic paintings, rare tapestries, silver, armor, weapons, antique musical instruments, glassware, even umbrellas and buttons (but only the finest ones). One of the three daughters became a sculptor and studied with the great Carl Milles. On the tour, you'll learn historical tidbits; for example, this house had a modern bathroom even before the royal palace got one. Ask about summer evening concerts presented in the central courtyard.

The museum is open to the public, and the Hallwyl Collection which is housed there encompasses some 50,000 objects.

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities or Östasiatiska Museet, is a public museum has a wide-ranging collections and exhibits of Asian archeology, classical arts, and culture, and a large Asia research library open to the public.

Particularly noteworthy is the collection of wares from the Chinese dynasties of Song, Ming and Qing, as well as the museum’s fresh temporary shows, which cover anything from comic-book manga to the art of Japanese tattoos.

The Jewish Museum features unique objects and
settings with links to the religion, tradition and history of Jews in Sweden.

This museum explores Swedish Jewry since 1774, through Holocaust and Raoul Wallenberg (a Swedish Oscar Schindler of sorts) to Torah silverware, ceremonial Passover items, wince-inducing circumcision knives, and a seven-branched candlestick looted from Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70.

Liljevalchs konsthall or the Liljevalch's Art Gallery functions as an art gallery.

Between February and mid-March, the Vårsalongen Art Show held here is a fun place to shop for high art and kitsch from both new and established Swedish artists.

A must see is the neoclassical architecture by Carl Milles statues on the entrance and top-notch temporary exhibitions of modern art, which range from video, photography and sculpture to painting, drawing and etching.

The Långholmens Fängelsemuseum describes the history of the Swedish penal system.

You can see how must be the life inside the Kronohäktet prison before it was turned into a hotel/hostel.

You can visit a typical cell used between 1845 and 1930, read about Sweden's last executioner, Anders Gustaf Dalman, and see a scale model of the guillotine imported from France and used only once.

Millesgården is an art museum and sculpture garden,

Here was the home and studio of sculptor Carl Milles, whose delicate water sprites and other whimsical sculptures dot the city landscape.

The grounds include a modern gallery for changing exhibitions of contemporary art,Milles’ elaborately Pompeiian house, and an exquisite outdoor sculpture garden, where items from ancient Greece, Rome, medieval times and the Renaissance intermingle with Milles’ own creations.

There’s also a museum shop and a cafe.

The Moderna Museum, located across the bridge from Skeppsholmen, is one of the most interesting museums in the city.

The building itself is highly acclaimed for its clean aesthetic lines, open spaces and brilliant use of natural light.

Moderna Museet's Collection includes works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dal�, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg.

The National Museum of Fine Art have all the great masters from 16th to 20th century. Fantastic paintings and sculptures by Rembrandt, Rubens, Boucher, Renoir, Degas and Gauguin and the Swedish masters Anders Zorn and Carl Larsson.

The Nordiska museet or the Nordic Museum inside has a collection of all things Swedish, from Sami folklore to eclectic exhibitions of Swedish fashion, shoes, interiors and even table settings.

Dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age until the contemporary period.

Founded in the late 19th century this museum owns the largest collection of paintings by August Strindberg.

Stockholm Transport Museum shows the development of public transport from horse-drawn tramcars to the today´s metro system.

Here you can see the oldest electrical motor vehicle in the world and more than sixty other vehicles.

In the museum there is also a café, a library, an archive and another museum called Leksaksmuseet ("Toy Museum"), which shows vehicles and the development of the public transport at Stockholm from the 19th century until present.

The Stockholms slott or the Royal Palace of Stockholm is the official residence of His Majesty the King of Sweden, with over 600 rooms.

The Palace is open to the public and offers no less than five museums.

The offices of the King, the other members of the Swedish Royal Family, and the offices of the Royal Court of Sweden are located here.

The palace is used for representative purposes by the King whilst performing his duties as the head of state.


The Palace was largely built during the eighteenth century in the Italian Baroque style, on the spot where the “Tre Kronor” castle burned down in 1697.

You can also see Gustav III’s Museum of Antiquities, the Tre Kronor Museum and the Treasury, the Armory, with royal costumes and armor, as well as coronation carriages and magnificent coaches from the Royal Stable.

dedicated to the writer August Strindberg, the Strindberg Museum (Swedish: Strindbergsmuseet) is a museum consists of Strindberg's flat and library, as well as an area for temporary exhibitions.

Wallpapers and other decorations have been reconstructed in accordance with how the flat looked at the time the writer lived there, but furniture and other details are original.

The Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet) offers a comprehensive series of exhibitions for the period spanning from the Stone Age to the Medieval period.

From prehistoric artifacts to Viking displays and beyond, the Museum of National Antiquities offers an insight into ten thousand years of history.

One of the most striking exhibits at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities is its “Gold Room’, a heavily fortified underground chamber housing around 52kg of gold ranging from Viking relics to pieces from the Middle Ages.

The museum offers audio guides in English, Swedish, French, German and Spanish, although these are on a first come first serve basis. These are not adapted for children, but the history trails in the Viking section are perfect for kids to follow.

The Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology (Swedish: Tekniska museet) is a Swedish museum in Stockholm.

It is Sweden’s largest museum of technology, and has a national charter to be responsible for preserving the Swedish cultural heritage related to technological and industrial history. Its galleries comprise around 10,000 square meters, and the museum attracts annually about 170,000 visitors. The collections consist of more than 50,000 objects and artefacts, 600 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 620,000 images and just over 50,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for generations to come.

The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum.

Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

Opened in 1990 and, The 69 meter-long warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in the middle of Stockholm in 1628, and was salvaged 333 years later in 1961. For nearly half a century the ship has been slowly, deliberately and painstakingly restored to a state approaching its original glory. The three masts on the roof outside the specially built museum show the height of the ship's original masts.

Today the Vasa Museum is the most visited museum in Scandinavia, with over one million visitors a year. There are nine different exhibitions around the ship to tell about life on board the ship. The film about the Vasa is shown in 16 different languages. In addition there is a well-stocked shop and a pleasant restaurant. Tours of the museum take place every day.