Nordic Museum

Revel in the cultural history of Sweden charted in this magnificent museum on Djurgarden island. Sweden's largest cultural history museum, the Nordic Museum, takes you through the history of Swedish culture from its establishment in 1520, after the Danish invasion, to the more recent times.

This museum was founded in 1873 by Artur Hazelius. Inside you'll find an exhibition of a wide variety of relevant artefacts, from textiles to simple furniture and jewellery. The building we see today actually was never completed, since it was initially planned to be much larger in size. Hazelius was still working on the Skansen and the Nordic when he dies in 1901, and Isak Gustaf Clason in 1907. The collection of the museum contains simple, every day objects, which reflect on how the rural culture developed over centuries. The Sami, the only indigenous people of Sweden, have an exhibition to themselves in the museum.