Exhibitions

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Across three floors, explore Stockholm’s history. From Sweden’s period as a European power to punk culture in Stockholm’s suburbs via beer halls and of course the Swedish welfare-state ideal known as Folkhemmet. In addition, you can visit temporary exhibitions.

Photo: Mattias Ek.

The Stockholm Exhibition

Follow Stockholm’s transformation from a small town on the outskirts of northern Europe to a modern Scandinavian city.

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 small town 500 years ago, on the outskirts of Northern Europe.

Photo: Mattias Ek.

The Pihlqvist Family Home

At the top of the museum, meet a family living in Stockholm in the early 20th century.

Now showing and coming temporary exhibitions

. The picture shows unusual intimacy, with the woman sitting on the man’s knee, with her arm around his shoulders, and the children all close to each other.
An unknown family with three children. This informal, intimate portrait departs from the carefully staged family photographs of the period. Judging by the clothing, the image was taken in the mid-1860s. Photographer unknown.

City Faces

Modern technology makes 19th-century portraits tell stories.

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