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The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, ... Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm (in Swedish). ... "Artistic urban design and cultural myths: The garden ...
Stockholm Old Town. Apart from being a large city with an active cultural life, Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, houses many national cultural institutions.There are two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Stockholm County area: the Royal Palace Drottningholm (within Ekerö Municipality) and the Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery).
Stortorget is the name of the scenic large square in the centre of Gamla Stan, which is surrounded by old merchants' houses including the Stockholm Stock Exchange Building. The square was the site of the Stockholm Bloodbath, where Swedish noblemen were massacred by the Danish King Christian II in November, 1520.
The main hall. The museum building. The Nordic Museum (Swedish: Nordiska museet) 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 (in Swedish history, it is said to begin in 1520) to the contemporary period.
The Culture of Sweden is similar to but distinct from the cultures of neighboring countries and is characterised by its art, music, dance, literature, traditions, religious practices and more. Sweden's modern history has a well-established tradition of science, technology and cultural creativity.
Stockholm City Museum, a museum of 500 years of Sweden's history; Swedish History Museum magnificent medieval art and The History of Sweden exhibition which offers encounters; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden's largest museum about new species and fossils of their predecessors in evolution. Toy Museum Stockholm a museum of toys and ...
Skansen (Swedish: [ˈskǎnːsɛn]; "the Sconce") 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.
Timeline of Stockholm history. Prehistory and origin of Stockholm; Stockholm during the Middle Ages (1250–1523) Stockholm Bloodbath (1520) Stockholm during the early Vasa era (1523–1611) Stockholm during the Swedish Empire (1611–1718) Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Stockholm during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772)