Nordiska Museet

Seokjin Ham★★★★★★★★★★4.02 weeks ago

A museum of Nordic cultural history that presents Swedish life, traditions, and everyday culture on a grand scale. Its collections cover clothing, furniture, homes, marriage customs, holidays, childcare, and food culture, offering a broad picture of Swedish society through the centuries. The interior design and decorative arts exhibitions are particularly strong, and the museum also hosts a variety of temporary exhibitions alongside its permanent collection. The building itself is highly impressive, featuring a soaring central hall and a monumental statue of Gustav Vasa, creating a distinctly Nordic atmosphere. ※ Included in the Go City Pass.

Cemal Baki ÜNAL★★★★★★★★★★4.02 weeks ago

The exterior of the museum has a magnificent architecture like a royal palace. Inside, the Scandinavian culture, which has developed for centuries since the 1600s, is described. With all the elements of culture that you can really think of. Religious culture, tools used, even the change of dining tables has been shown for centuries. If you are very interested in Scandinavian culture, it is for you.

Janina Kloß★★★★★★★★★★5.0a month ago

One of the best museums I've ever been to. While you visit the exhibition you travel through time from 1500 to the present. There are several rooms for each century, each with its own theme and decoration, so you have the chance to explore different aspects of each era. I especially liked the audioguide that you can download for free on your smartphone and the short video clips about individual storys from people that lived in the past. Make sure to bring a few hours to really get the most out of your stay.

Kristina Paulus★★★★★★★★★★5.0a month ago

We had an amazing time in this stunning museum! The building in itself is worth coming here, but the exhibition about life in the Nordics is beautifully created and curated. The amount of detail and information blew us away and we spend an easy 3+ hours here. The current exhibition on the ground floor about the Arctic & climate change was definitely a little scary, but also so well researched and so important, too! We would 100% recommend coming here 👌🏻✨

Neeru Das★★★★★★★★★★5.0a month ago

Nordiska Museet (Nordic Museum), is located in Djurgarden in central Stockholm, Sweden. The museum is situated in a central area known for its nature and the wonderful fact that it is located right in front of the Vasa Museum. This museum was originally built in 1873, and was then called the Scandinavian Ethnographic Collection. When Hazelius established the open-air museum Skansen in 1891, it happened to be the 2nd such museum in the world. For the museum, Hazelius got donations of furniture, clothes and toys from all over Sweden and the other Nordic countries. He emphasised the peasant culture, but his successors increasingly started to collect objects reflecting bourgeois and urban lifestyles as well. Though, by himself, he even collected entire buildings and farms. Although the project did not initially get the government funding he had hoped for, Hazelius received widespread support and donations and by 1898, the Society for the promotion of the Nordic Museum had 4,525 members. The Riksdag allocated some money for the museums in 1891 and doubled the amount in 1900, the year before Hazelius died. The present building, was designed by Isak Gustaf Clason, and was only completed in 1907. Originally, it was intended to be a national monument housing the material inheritance of the nation. It was, however, only half-completed for the Stockholm Exposition 1897, and it never was completed to the extent originally planned, which wad to be atleast three times the actual size. It takes its style from Dutch influenced Danish Renaissance architecture rather than any specifically Swedish historical models. The core of the 'cathedralesque' building is taken up by a huge main hall, about 390 ft approx, passing through all the stories up to the roof and is finally dominated by the sculpture of King Gustav Vasa's enormous sculpture, whom, the Swedish had called their 'founder king'. For the construction, brick and granite was used for the walls, while concrete was used for the roof. Though we had the opportunity of seeing the Vasa Museum properly in 2025, Nordiska Museet could be just observed from the outside only. What was most appealing was that it looked to be an extremely peaceful, beige stone coloured construction with the grey and green colour roof.