2012.10.03 - Day 13 (Stockholm, Sweden)

On Wednesday, I made sure to take full advantage of my Stockholm Card and went to no less than 7 museums as I familiarized myself with Stockholm’s subway system.  The more memorable one was the Royal Palace where you get to see the Royal apartments and the Swedish crown jewels. I also walked around the old town of Stockholm called Gamla Stan. For my own sanity, I’m listing out the museums I went to:

• Kungliga Slottet (Royal Apartments, Tre Kronor, Treasury) – The Royal Palace
• NobelMuseet  - the Nobel Museum which is part of the same building as the Swedish Academy which decides who gets the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Medeltidsmuseum  - a Medieval museum showing artifacts and history from medieval Stockholm
• Storykyrkan - old church next to the Royal Palace…the crown princess of Sweden got married here a couple years ago. As a random side note, Sweden and it’s progressiveness passed a law so that the oldest child becomes the next king or queen…NOT the oldest son like those Brits J)
• Nordiska Museet  - Nordic Museum celebrating all things Nordic culture
• Spiritmuseum - Museum dedicated to Absolut Vodka which originated in Sweden
• Historika Museet - Historical Museum that has some cool Viking stuff as well and some ancient Scandinavian artifacts

Unfortunately, I couldn't take pictures in most of them, so I only have pictures of the outside of some.

Square in the city center (Gamla Stan) 

The winding streets of Gamla Stan

More street views of Gamla Stan

Me in Gamla Stan

The Royal Palace

Changing of the guard at the Royal Palace

Changing of the guard

Storkrykan - oldest church in Gamla Stan

Inside Storkyrkan

Nobel Museum and Swedish Academy

Swedish Parliament Building - couldn't go in there, but liked the architecture

Outside the Medieval museum

Nordic Museum

Inside the Nordic Museum - Statue of Gustavus Adolphus, regarded as the founder of the Swedish Empire

The great hall of the Nordic Museum

Inside the Spirit Museum. You can smell all the flavors of Absolut Vodka (I personally wanted to taste them all :-)

A Viking Runestone in the Historical Museum which main purpose was "to mark territory, to explain inheritance, to boast about constructions, to bring glory to dead kinsmen and to tell of important events"

Stockholm at night