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Sweden's museums reach from a 17th-century warship raised from the harbour to the world's first open-air museum, Viking gold and the colourful world of Pippi Longstocking.
Stockholm is built on fourteen islands, and its museums sit on the water. On Djurgården you find the Vasa, a warship that sank in front of the whole city on its first voyage and came back up almost complete, and Skansen, where old farms and town houses from all over Sweden were rebuilt among elks and bears. Nearby are the Nordic Museum, ABBA The Museum and Junibacken, where Astrid Lindgren's stories come alive for children. Across the water stand the Nationalmuseum, Moderna Museet and the Nobel Prize Museum in the Old Town. Uppsala has Viking burial mounds, the cathedral and the gardens of Carl Linnaeus; Gothenburg has design, science and the sea; on Gotland the medieval walls of Visby still close the town. In between, every museum café keeps the Swedish habit of fika: coffee, a cinnamon bun and time to talk. This museumtickets.com guide takes you from the rock carvings to Swedish design, county by county.
From rock carvings to flat-pack design, follow Sweden through its museums.
At Tanum on the west coast, people carved ships, warriors, animals and lovers into the rock 3,000 years ago. Thousands of them can still be seen, a picture book from before writing.
À voir à: Vitlycke Museum →Swedish Vikings sailed east along the rivers of Russia to Constantinople. At Birka they traded silver, silk and furs; the Gold Room shows what they brought home.
À voir à: Swedish History MuseumGustav Vasa leaves the Kalmar Union and becomes king of an independent Sweden. His family builds castles and a strong state, and the royal armour and coronation clothes are still kept.
À voir à: Royal ArmourySweden rules much of the Baltic. To show its power the king orders the biggest warship yet – the Vasa – but it is too heavy at the top and sinks after only 1,300 metres.
À voir à: Vasa MuseumIn Uppsala, Carl Linnaeus gives plants and animals the two-part Latin names scientists still use. His house and garden are kept as he knew them.
À voir à: Linnaeus MuseumAs people move to cities and to America, Artur Hazelius collects the clothes, tools and houses of country life, and opens the Nordic Museum and Skansen.
À voir à: Skansen →Light furniture, glass from Småland and a furniture shop founded in a small village in 1943 – IKEA – take Swedish design into homes all over the world.
À voir à: IKEA Museum →A queen who left her throne, a Nobel writer, an abstract pioneer and the mother of Pippi.
Queen at six, she gathered scholars and paintings in Stockholm, then gave up her crown, became Catholic and moved to Rome, where she is buried in St Peter's.
À voir à: Nationalmuseum →Painter and textile artist who designed the bright, homely interior of the family house in Sundborn – a style that still shapes Swedish homes.
À voir à: Carl Larsson-gården →In 1909 she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her Nils Holgersson flies over Sweden on a goose; her home Mårbacka is in Värmland.
À voir à: Mårbacka →She painted large abstract works before Kandinsky, but asked that they stay hidden for 20 years after her death. Today the world comes to see them.
À voir à: Moderna Museet →Creator of Pippi Longstocking, Emil and the Brothers Lionheart, and a voice for children's rights and animal welfare.
À voir à: Junibacken →Names that come back in Swedish museums.
Watercolours of family life in a sunny wooden house – the picture of the Swedish home.
À voir à: Nationalmuseum →Painter of light on water and of Dalarna's people; his home and museum are in Mora.
À voir à: Zorn MuseumBold colour and fairy-tale water spirits; his later work points to modern art.
À voir à: Nationalmuseum →Foxes, birds and hares in the Swedish landscape, painted by a hunter who watched them for hours.
À voir à: Thiel GallerySculptor of gods, tritons and dancers; his garden on a cliff at Lidingö is full of them.
À voir à: Millesgården →Fika, herring and the best cinnamon buns you will find.
Swedish meatballs with cream sauce, potatoes and lingonberry jam – a home classic.
The daily coffee break with cinnamon or cardamom buns; museums all have a café for it.
Pickled herring in many flavours, with new potatoes, sour cream and chives – the taste of midsummer.
A cardamom bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream, eaten in late winter.
Green marzipan cake with sponge, jam, custard and cream, first made for three princesses.
Fermented Baltic herring from the north, opened outdoors in late summer – for the brave, with thin bread and potatoes.
Light, dark and a lot of singing.
Bakeries fill with semlor; Fat Tuesday is the big day.
Bonfires and student choirs welcome the spring, especially in Uppsala and Lund.
Flower crowns, dancing around the maypole like little frogs, herring, strawberries and a long light night.
Crayfish parties with paper hats, lanterns and drinking songs.
In the dark of December, a girl with candles in her hair leads a singing procession through schools, churches and museums.
The julbord buffet, straw goats, and – a tradition since the 1960s – the whole country watching Donald Duck on television on Christmas Eve.
Many of Stockholm's best museums are on Djurgården: take the small ferry or the tram and walk between them.
Stockholm and Gothenburg have city passes for museums and transport – useful if you see several museums in a few days.
Sweden is almost cashless; many museums and cafés accept only cards or phones.
Allemansrätten lets everyone walk in nature – combine a museum with the archipelago or the forest.
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