Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Stockholm, Sweden

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.

Wikipedia: St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church (EN)

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".

Wikipedia: Kruthusplan (SV)

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.

Wikipedia: Minnesstenen Norges tack (SV)

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.

Wikipedia: Restare (SV)

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.

Wikipedia: FN-monumentet (SV)

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.

Wikipedia: Maritime Museum (Stockholm) (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Riksidrottsmuseum (SV), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Police Museum (Stockholm) (EN), Website

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

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.

Wikipedia: Museum of Ethnography, Sweden (EN), Website

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 from 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.

Wikipedia: Folke Bernadotte (EN)

Skansen is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.

Wikipedia: Skansen (EN), Website

The Jenny Lind statue is a statue of singer Jenny Lind at Djurgårdsbrunnsviken on Djurgården in Stockholm. The work was created by sculptor Erik Rafael-Rådberg and unveiled on May 11, 1924.

Wikipedia: Jenny Lind-statyn (SV)

The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period to the contemporary period. The museum was founded in the late 19th century by Artur Hazelius, who also founded the open-air museum Skansen. It was, for a long time, part of the museum, until the institutions were made independent of each other in 1963.

Wikipedia: Nordic Museum (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official website, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. Together with other museums such as the Stockholm Maritime Museum, it belongs to the Swedish National Maritime Museums (SNMM).

Wikipedia: Vasa Museum (EN), Website

Junibacken is a children’s attraction, founded by Staffan Götestam, Fredrik Uhrström and Peder Wallenberg. It is situated on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedia: Junibacken (EN), Website

The Bünsowska house is an exclusive apartment building located at Strandvägen 29–33 in Östermalm in central Stockholm, built in 1886–1888 for the timber patron and millionaire Friedrich Bünsow according to drawings by the architects Isak Gustaf Clason (facades) and Anders Gustaf Forsberg (the plans). The building complex occupies the entire Korporalen block, which is surrounded by Riddargatan to the north, Grev Magnigatan to the west, Torstenssonsgatan to the east and Strandvägen to the south. The property is blue-marked by the City Museum in Stockholm, which is the strongest protection and means "that the buildings are considered to have particularly high cultural-historical values".

Wikipedia: Bünsowska huset (SV), Heritage Website

The Customs House on Blasieholmen is a customs building at Nybrokajen / Hovslagargatan on Blasieholmen in central Stockholm, erected in 1874. The customs business ceased in the 1940s and today the building is used as an office. The Customs House's building was green -marked by the City Museum in Stockholm, which means that the cultural -historical value is considered particularly high from historical, cultural -historical, environmental or artistic point of view.

Wikipedia: Tullhuset, Blasieholmen (SV)

The Museum Park is a park on Blasieholmen in Stockholm. The park is located north of the National Museum building and was given its current name in 1925.

Wikipedia: Museiparken, Stockholm (SV)

Nationalmuseum is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen, in central Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Nationalmuseum (EN), Website, Heritage Website

Royal Swedish Opera is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Gustav II Adolf's statue in Stockholm is an equestrian statue created by Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque and Johan Tobias Sergel, which stands on Gustav Adolf's square in Stockholm. The statue was inaugurated on 17 November 1796, the plinth sculptures were put in place in 1906.

Wikipedia: Gustav II Adolfs staty, Stockholm (SV)

Kumlienska huset is a building in Kvarteret Lejonet at Fredsgatan 3 in Norrmalm in Stockholm. In Stockholm's women's fashion, the house was a well-known address, and between 1818 and until the beginning of the 1960s, the exclusive fabric company John V. Löfgren & Co. The property is green-labelled by the City Museum in Stockholm, which means that it is considered "particularly valuable from a historical, cultural-historical, environmental or artistic point of view". The building is owned and managed by the National Property Board of Sweden.

Wikipedia: Kumlienska huset (kvarteret Lejonet) (SV), Heritage Website

Medelhavsmuseet is a museum in central Stockholm focused around collections of mainly ancient objects from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Since 1999 the museum is one of four composing the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden.

Wikipedia: Medelhavsmuseet (EN), Website

Ulla-Britt (Ulla) Kraitz (born August 19, 1936 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish painter, ceramicist and sculptor.

Wikipedia: Ulla Kraitz (SV)

The Museum of Medieval Stockholm, centrally located north of the Royal Palace, was constructed around old monuments excavated in an extensive archaeological dig in the late 1970s. Part of Stockholm's city wall, dating from the early 16th century, was also found. In order to make the finds accessible to the general public, a planned subterranean garage had to give way to the Museum of Medieval Stockholm, which was inaugurated in 1986. Museum director Margareta Hallerdt created a visionary state-of-the-art museum, designed by artist Kerstin Rydh, that received both national and international acclaim and won the European Museum of the Year Award in 1986.

Wikipedia: Museum of Medieval Stockholm (EN), Website

Strömparterren is a park located in Norrström east of Norrbro on Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm (Sweden). The park was built in 1830.

Wikipedia: Strömparterren (EN)

The Sun Warbler is a sculpture by Carl Milles. The sculpture is in bronze and was unveiled on October 21, 1926 at the far end of Strömparterren in Stockholm in memory of Esaias Tegnér. The statue will depict Tegnér's poem Song to the Sun. On the sculpture's pedestal facing the sea side, there is a medallion in green Kolmård marble showing Esaias Tegnér in profile.

Wikipedia: Solsångaren (SV)