Museums in Stockholm

The Vasa Museum displays the world's only fully preserved 17th-century warship. The 69-metre Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, was salvaged in 1961, and now stands in a purpose-built hall—one of the most visited museums in Scandinavia.

Skansen is the world's first open-air museum (1891), displaying 150 historical buildings from across Sweden. From Sami camps to urban townhouses, it tells the story of Swedish life across five centuries. A Nordic zoo with moose, bears, and wolves is included.

Moderna Museet is Sweden's national museum of modern and contemporary art, housed in a Rafael Moneo-designed building on Skeppsholmen island. The permanent collection spans Duchamp, Dalí, Rauschenberg, and major Swedish artists.

The Nobel Prize Museum in Gamla Stan celebrates the Nobel Prize and its laureates through creative exhibitions, films, and a unique ceiling installation of 900+ laureate portraits gliding overhead on a cable track.

The ABBA Museum is an interactive tribute to Sweden's most famous pop export, with costumes, gold records, memorabilia, and a recording booth where you can sing with virtual ABBA holograms.

The Nordiska Museet (Nordic Museum) is Sweden's largest cultural history museum, covering 500 years of Swedish daily life—from fashion and folk art to interiors and the Sami people—in a grand Renaissance Revival building.