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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.

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.

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.

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.

Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde on Djurgården was the home of Prince Eugen (1865–1947), painter and art collector, and opened as a museum in 1948 after he left it to the state. Ferdinand Boberg designed the mansion, finished in 1905, and the gallery added in 1913; they hold about 7,000 works, mostly Swedish art, and the park by the water has sculptures and an 18th-century oil mill.

Tekniska museet is Sweden's national museum of science and technology, founded in 1924 and housed since 1936 in a functionalist building by Ragnar Hjorth on Norra Djurgården. Its collections trace Swedish technical and industrial history, and hands-on exhibitions such as Megamind sit beside the Wisdome dome theatre.

Millesgården is the former home and studio of the sculptor Carl Milles and the artist Olga Milles on Lidingö, given to the Swedish people as a foundation in 1936. Terraces above the water hold casts of Milles's sculptures, the house shows the couple's rooms and collections, and an art hall designed by Johan Celsing in 1999 holds exhibitions.

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.

Drottningholm Palace stands on the island of Lovön in Lake Mälaren and was built from 1662 to designs by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder for the Dowager Queen Hedvig Eleonora. The royal family lives in the southern wing, while the state rooms, the Baroque garden and the park are open to visitors; the royal domain has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.

Drottningholm Palace Theatre is the court theatre of Drottningholm Palace, completed in 1766 to designs by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz for Queen Lovisa Ulrika. Its auditorium, original stage sets and 18th-century stage machinery survive and are still used for a summer opera season; guided tours lead through the auditorium and the rooms of the theatre building.