Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
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Experience Stockholm Municipality in Sweden in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in Stockholm MunicipalitySight 1: Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected by the allies.
Sight 2: Museum of Ethnography
The Museum of Ethnography, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish science museum. It houses a collection of about 220,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples from around the world, including from China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa. The museum is situated in Museiparken at Gärdet in Stockholm. Since 1999, it is a part of Swedish National Museums of World Culture and is also hosting the Sven Hedin Foundation. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00AM – 5:00 PM, and Wednesdays 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM and is closed on Mondays.
Sight 3: Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology
The National Museum of Science and Technology is a museum in Stockholm. It is Sweden’s largest museum of technology, and has a national charter to be responsible for preserving the Swedish cultural heritage related to technological and industrial history. Its galleries comprise around 10,000 square meters, and the museum attracts annually about 350,000 visitors. The collections consist of more than 55,000 objects and artifacts, 1 200 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 800,000 images and about 40,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for generations to come.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Science and Technology (Sweden) (EN), Website
Sight 4: The Police Museum
The Police Museum (Polismuseet) is a policing museum in Stockholm, Sweden, run by and telling the history of the Swedish Police. It has existed in its present form since 2007.
Sight 5: National Sports Museum of Sweden
The Swedish Sports Museum is a museum located in the Museum Park at Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 26 in Gärdet in Stockholm. The National Sports Museum was opened in its current premises on 16 June 2007. From 2007 to 2020, the museum was called the National Sports Museum.
Sight 6: Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum in Stockholm, Sweden is a museum for naval history, merchant shipping and shipbuilding. Located in the Gärdet section of the inner-city district Östermalm, the museum offers a panoramic view of the bay Djurgårdsbrunnsviken. The building was designed by architect Ragnar Östberg and built in 1933–36.
Sight 7: FN-monumentet
The UN Monument is a memorial dedicated to the Swedes who have died in UN service, located on the shore of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, near the Maritime Museum, at Gärdet in Stockholm. The monument was inaugurated in 1995. On 29 May, Veterans' Day is celebrated annually in connection with the UN monument and the nearby veterans' memorial Restare, which was erected in 2013.
Sight 8: Restare
Restare is a memorial at Gärdet in Stockholm for Swedish civilian and military veterans, created by sculptor Monika Larsen Dennis. The memorial stands just southeast of Villa Källhagen.
Sight 9: Minnesstenen Norges tack
The Memorial Stone Norway's Thanks is a memorial in the form of a large stone that is located on Djurgården in Stockholm. The memorial stone was presented on 14 June 1983 by Norway's King Olav V to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf as an official thank you from Norway to Sweden for Sweden and the Swedish population helping Norway during World War II when it was occupied by Nazi Germany during the years 1940–1945. Part of the help was to equip and train a Norwegian army on Swedish soil during the years 1943 to 1945. The army was under the guise of police troops and included 15,000 soldiers.
Sight 10: Kruthusplan
Kruthusplan is a small place in the district of Östermalm in Diplomatstaden, Stockholm. Kruthusplan leads from Laboratoriegatan at the height of the Church of England south towards Nobelgatan and divides the Diplomat City's residential area into two blocks, "Ambassadoren" and "Diplomaten".
Sight 11: The English Church
St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church, often referred to locally as the English Church, is an Anglican church in Stockholm, Sweden. It was built in the 1860s for the British congregation in the city and was originally located on Rörstrandsgatan in the Norrmalm district before being moved, stone by stone, to the Diplomatstaden area of Östermalm in 1913.
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