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Historiska Museet (The Museum of History) is a fascinating museum dedicated to Swedish history. Located inwards the Östermalm neighborhood, it's simply a brusk x infinitesimal walk from other tourist attractions on Djurgården (like the Vasa Museum). I visited the museum today to run across their novel exhibition focusing on the by 1,000 years of Swedish history... from the halt of the Viking era to today. It was real good presented every bit you lot walk through rooms dedicated to each century, learning nearly people both famous together with unknown. H5N1 real hands-on exhibition! Besides this novel exhibtion, the Museum of History has several neat permanent exhibitons. Two of my favorites are the Gold Room together with the Viking exhibition. The Gold Room contains treasures establish throughout Sweden dating from the Iron Age to the Viking Age. Over 100 lbs of aureate together with 400 lbs of silver. Treasures such every bit reliquaries, torques together with collars tin endu...

Medeltidsmuseet (Medieval Museum) late opened in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than after existence unopen for a few years for renovation. The changes are actually impressive! The museum is built roughly a department of the master defensive wall of the metropolis in addition to concentrates on Stockholm's history inwards the Middle-Ages. See through models how Stockholm grew in addition to how people lived in addition to worked inwards the city. Very interactive exhibitions... holograms, storyboards, relics in addition to a mock set-up of a metropolis street. Great for kids! During this summertime they bring an exhibition of Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm, celebrating his 800th birthday. They bring fifty-fifty reconstructed how he in all likelihood looked after a recent earthworks of his grave. And nigh importantly... No entrance fee! Opening hours this summer: 12 to 5pm, opened upward afterward on Wednesdays to 7pm. Closed Mondays! Very centrally located , though easily ov...

(EDIT: Strömma does non offering this tour anymore... but y'all tin give the axe yet take in the town on your own. Info at terminate of this article) I had the pleasance today to attempt out ii novel twenty-four hours trips that Strömma are offering Summer 2013. They are Sigtuna town as well as Skokloster Castle. The tours both run out on the same boat from inwards front end of City Hall ( Stadshusbron ), y'all but guide if y ou desire to larn off showtime at Sigtuna or maintain on to Skokloster. The cost is the same... 290 SEK for a round-trip ticket. Sigtuna is located but north-west of Stockholm on the agency to Uppsala. It was an of import trading oculus as well as is considered the showtime metropolis inwards Sweden. Sigtuna had its golden historic catamenia betwixt the slow 900's as well as the mid 1200's when Stockholm rose to prominence. The metropolis layout looks today much similar it did dorsum inwards its heyday amongst the top dog street ( Stora gatan ) y...

The tour to Sk o kloster Castle goes on the same boat equally the 1 to Sigtuna (see final entry below). After stopping at Sigtuna the boat continues on for 1 hr to a greater extent than to the castle. The terms is the same... 290 SEK for a circular trip tour. Skokloster Castle is 1 of many castles together with palaces scattered thoughout the Mälar Valley together with mayhap the most good preserved baroque castles inward the world together with a monument to Sweden's Age of Power. Completed inward 1676, the castle was built past times Carl Gustav Wrangel together with afterward came into the posession of the influential Brahe family. Wrangel was quite the collector together with the armoury is filled amongst an amazing display of weaponry together with fifty-fifty exotic objects fro m about the world. The baroque interior pattern is spectacular... difficult to know where to residue your eyes amongst all of the magnificent furniture, tapestries together with paintings. You a...

How onetime is Stockholm? No 1 knows the exact appointment of the city's founding exactly the urban gist is at to the lowest degree 760 years old. The starting fourth dimension time the urban gist is mentioned inwards historical records is 1252 A.D. inwards letters written past times Birger Jarl together with King Valdemar . Birger Jarl is traditionally considered to last the founder of Stockholm. There are many legends regarding why together with how Stockholm came into existence... exactly the obvious argue is her strategic place on the edge betwixt Lake Mälaren together with the Baltic Sea. Tip: There is a adept exhibition on Birger Jarl at the Museum of Medieval Stockholm going on until Jan 10th, 2011.