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Sven-Harry's Art Museum opened in 2011 in a brass-clad building by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor beside Vasaparken, founded by the builder Sven-Harry Karlsson. The lower floors hold an exhibition hall; the top floor recreates his 1770s home Ekholmsnäs on Lidingö with works by Carl Fredrik Hill, Helene Schjerfbeck and Anders Zorn, and the roof terrace has sculptures.

Avicii Experience is a museum about the Swedish music producer Tim Bergling, known as Avicii, opened in February 2022 in the Space building at Sergels torg, one floor below street level. Created with his family after his death in 2018, it shows a reconstruction of his childhood room and objects and photos from his life, and covers mental health among young people.

The Nobel Prize Museum occupies the former Stock Exchange Building on Stortorget in Gamla stan, built in the 1770s. Opened in 2001 for the centenary of the prize, it presents Alfred Nobel and the laureates through objects they donated, films and changing exhibitions; the Swedish Academy also has its rooms in the building.

The Royal Armoury, founded in 1628 when Gustav II Adolf ordered his campaign clothes to be kept, is Sweden's oldest museum and lies in the cellar vaults of Stockholm Palace. It shows armour, coronation robes, the king's clothes from the battle of Lützen, his stuffed horse Streiff and royal carriages.

The Swedish Museum of Natural History grew from the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and became a museum in 1819. Its domed brick building in Frescati, designed by Axel Anderberg, was completed in 1916. Exhibitions cover animals, plants, fossils, minerals and human evolution, and the Cosmonova dome cinema, added in 1993, is Sweden's largest planetarium.

The Hallwyl Museum occupies Hallwyl House at Hamngatan 4, a town house finished in 1898 for Count Walther and Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl. The couple left the house and its contents to the Swedish state in 1920 and it opened as a museum in 1938, showing a private home of about 1900 and the countess's 50,000-object collections of paintings, arms, porcelain and silver.

Nationalmuseum is Sweden's museum of art and design, founded in 1792 and housed since 1866 in a building by Friedrich August Stüler on Blasieholmen, facing the Royal Palace across the water. About 5,000 paintings, sculptures and design objects are shown along a chronological route, and the building reopened in 2018 after a five-year renovation.

The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts covers music, theatre, puppetry and dance and has been housed since 1979 in the former Crown Bakery, a 17th-century building on Sibyllegatan next to the Royal Stables and the oldest industrial building in Stockholm. Its collections include more than 6,000 instruments from the early 17th century onward, stage costumes, masks and marionettes.

The Swedish Army Museum occupies the 18th-century arsenal buildings of Artillerigården in Östermalm, a site used by the artillery since the 17th century. Opened in 1879 as the Artillery Museum, it traces Swedish military history from the Middle Ages to modern neutrality through weapons, uniforms, trophies and life-size scenes of soldiers and civilians.

Moderna Museet is Sweden's state museum of modern and contemporary art, opened in 1958 on the island of Skeppsholmen. Its present building by Rafael Moneo opened in 1998. The collection includes works by Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Matisse, Louise Bourgeois and Rauschenberg, and an outdoor sculpture park holds pieces by Calder, Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle.

Fotografiska is a museum of photography that opened in May 2010 in Stora Tullhuset, a brick customs house on Stadsgårdshamnen in Södermalm built in 1906–1910 to designs by Ferdinand Boberg. It has no permanent collection and shows changing exhibitions of photographers, from Annie Leibovitz at the opening to Anton Corbijn and Helen Levitt, with a restaurant on the top floor.

Junibacken on Djurgården is a children's attraction devoted to Swedish children's books, above all those of Astrid Lindgren, opened in 1996. A small train rides through scenes from her stories to a reconstruction of Pippi Longstocking's Villa Villekulla; there is also a square of houses for other authors, a theatre and a children's bookshop.

The Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet is Sweden's national museum of money and economic history, since 2019 in the Swedish History Museum's building on Narvavägen. Its collection of some 650,000 objects includes Viking Age silver hoards, Sweden's first coins and early banknotes, shown alongside interactive stations on how money works.

The Swedish History Museum on Narvavägen covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Stone Age to the present. Founded in 1866, it moved into its present building by Bengt Romare and George Scherman, built in the 1930s; exhibitions include the Viking Age and a Gold Room with prehistoric and medieval gold.

The Vasa Museum on Djurgården houses the warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm harbour on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was raised in 1961. The museum opened in 1990; the almost complete 17th-century ship stands in a hall several storeys high, surrounded by exhibitions on her construction, crew and salvage.

The Nordic Museum on Djurgården covers Swedish cultural history and everyday life from the 16th century to the present. It was founded by Artur Hazelius, who also created Skansen, and its building by Isak Gustaf Clason was completed in 1907. A 126-metre hall with a large seated statue of Gustav Vasa leads to exhibitions on homes, clothing, festivals and the Sami.

Spritmuseum is a museum of Swedish drinking culture that opened in 1967 on Dalagatan as the Wine and Spirits Historical Museum and moved in 2012 to the former naval galley sheds on Djurgårdsstrand. Its permanent exhibition covers Sweden's history of spirits, drinking songs and habits, and a gallery shows works from the Absolut Art Collection, alongside a restaurant.

The Viking Museum, called Vikingaliv until its renaming, opened in 2017 in a former boat hall on Djurgårdsstrand on Djurgården in Stockholm. It shows daily life in the Viking Age through archaeological finds, reconstructed settings and a model of a Sigtuna farmer, and includes Ragnfrid's Saga, an eleven-minute ride through a Viking story.

ABBA The Museum on Djurgården opened in 2013 as a permanent exhibition about the Swedish pop group ABBA. It shows stage costumes, gold records and instruments donated by the band members, and visitors can sing, dance and record their voices at interactive stations along the way.

Skansen on Djurgården was opened in 1891 by Artur Hazelius as an open-air museum of rural Swedish life before industrialisation. Farmsteads, a church and town houses moved here from across Sweden stand along wooded paths, with staff in period dress, craft workshops and a zoo of Nordic animals such as elk, bears and wolves.