Exhibitions

Through three floors, we take you from Empire dreams to suburban punk rockers via skid row poetry, beer houses and of course “folkhemmet” — the Swedish prosperity concept. In addition, you can visit temporary exhibitions.

Photo: Mattias Ek.

The Stockholm exhibition

Join us on a breathtaking journey from a small place on the outskirts of northern Europe to an urban, Scandinavian metropolis.

On Ryssgården, which we also can see outside the museum’s window, a Russian merchant displays his wares. He has the right to do so here, although under stringent control. And should war break out, he may instead find himself in a Swedish jail. Photo: Mattias Ek.

King’s City and Capital City

Welcome to a a small town, 500 years ago, on the outskirts of northern Europe.

Photo: Mattias Ek.

The Pihlqvist Family Home

At the top of our building lives a family with a really smart tiled wood-burning oven.

Now showing and coming temporary exhibitions

Joakim Thåström, member of the punk rock band Ebba Grön. Photo: Hatte Stiwenius.

STHLMS PÄRLOR!

Meet the liberating punk rock movement in Stockholm through Hatte Stiwenius’ photographs from ...

Photo: Simon Johansson.

Upcoming: A Familiar Place

Photographer Simon Johansson captures everyday moments in a Stockholm in transition.

Stockholm’s first female press photographer Alma Haag is sitting on a roof in Klarakvarteren with a colleague at DN. Unknown photographer, year 1908—1909.

Upcoming: New Stockholm 1900

Meet the city’s inhabitants during the transition around the turn of the 20th century.

“Punktjej” (Punk Girl). Embroidery by Maivor Ström.

Punk Embroidery

Punk meets embroidery. Or perhaps it’s the other way around.

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