Sweden
Things to do in Stockholm
42 places24 stories3 routes
Sightlore has 42 places to explore in Stockholm, and 24 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Stockholm's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Riddarholm Church
Riddarholmen Church is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs.
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Drottningholm Palace Theatre
The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the few 18th-century theatres in Europe that is still used as a theatre with its original stage machinery.
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Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet (lit. 'the modern museum') is a state museum for modern and contemporary art and design, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958.
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Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace, or the Royal Palace, is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia use Drottningholm Palace as their usual residence).
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Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm City Hall is the seat of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm.
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Gröna Lund
Gröna Lund, or colloquially Grönan, is an amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden.
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ABBA: The Museum
ABBA The Museum is a Swedish interactive exhibition about the pop band ABBA that opened in Stockholm, Sweden in May 2013. ABBA's collected works are showcased in a contemporary, interactive setting at Djurgården, Stockholm.
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Nobel Prize Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
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Skansen
Skansen is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Parliament House of Sweden (Riksdagshuset)
The Parliament House is the seat of the parliament of Sweden, the Riksdag. It is located on nearly half of Helgeandsholmen (island), in the Gamla stan (old town) district of central Stockholm.
Discovery routes in Stockholm
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Stockholm: City Hall, Gamla stan and Skeppsholmen
From Stockholm City Hall to Riddarholmen Church, the Riksdag building, the Royal Palace and the Royal Armoury, then through Gamla stan to the Great Church, the Nobel Prize Museum and the German Church; on to the Royal Opera, Kungsträdgården, the Nationalmuseum, the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Skeppsholmen and Moderna Museet.
Stockholm: the museums of Djurgården
From the Nordic Museum to the Vasa Museum, ABBA The Museum and Gröna Lund, then Skansen, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde and Rosendal Palace.
Drottningholm Palace and its park
From Drottningholm Palace to the Palace Theatre and the Chinese Pavilion at the far end of the park.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace, or the Royal Palace, is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia use Drottningholm Palace as their usual residence).
Gamla stan
Gamla Stan, until 1980 officially Staden mellan broarna ("The Town between the Bridges"), is the old town of Stockholm, Sweden.
Rosendal Palace
Rosendal Palace is a Swedish palace pavilion located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm. It was built between 1823 and 1827 for King Charles XIV John, the first Bernadotte king of Sweden.
Drottningholm Palace
Drottningholm Palace is a royal palace in Drottningholm, on the island of Lovön in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden.
Drottningholm Palace Theatre
The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the few 18th-century theatres in Europe that is still used as a theatre with its original stage machinery.
Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm
The Chinese Pavilion, located in the grounds of the Drottningholm Palace park, is a Chinese-inspired royal pavilion originally built between 1753 and 1769. The pavilion is currently one of Sweden's Royal Palaces and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Skogskyrkogården
Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery located in the Gamla Enskede district south of central Stockholm, Sweden.
Museums
Royal Armoury
The Royal Armoury is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty.
Nobel Prize Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm.
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, located in Stockholm, Sweden, is a museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson as founding director.
Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet (lit. 'the modern museum') is a state museum for modern and contemporary art and design, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958.
Nordic Museum
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 (in Swedish history, it is said to begin in 1520) to the contemporary period.
Vasa Museum
The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
ABBA: The Museum
ABBA The Museum is a Swedish interactive exhibition about the pop band ABBA that opened in Stockholm, Sweden in May 2013. ABBA's collected works are showcased in a contemporary, interactive setting at Djurgården, Stockholm.
Skansen
Skansen is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.
Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde
Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde is a museum located on Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was formerly the home of Prince Eugen (1865-1947), a Swedish prince, painter and art collector.
Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum in Stockholm, Sweden is a museum for naval history, merchant shipping and shipbuilding.
Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet
The Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet is a museum in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the history of money and economic history.
Swedish Museum of Natural History
The Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg.
Swedish Film Institute
The Swedish Film Institute is a statutory body located in Stockholm, Sweden that supports the Swedish film industry.
Swedish Army Museum
The Swedish Army Museum is a museum of military history located in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm.
Swedish History Museum
The Swedish History Museum is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day.
National Museum of Science and Technology
The National Museum of Science and Technology is a museum in Stockholm.
Millesgården
Millesgården is an art museum and sculpture garden, located on the island of Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located in the grounds of the former home of sculptor Carl Milles and his wife, the artist Olga Milles.
Stockholm Observatory
The Stockholm Observatory is an astronomical observatory and institution in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm University.
Places of worship
Riddarholm Church
Riddarholmen Church is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs.
Storkyrkan
Storkyrkan, also called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of Saint Nicholas), is the oldest church in Stockholm.
German Church
The German Church, sometimes called St. Gertrude's Church, is a church in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, belonging to the German Saint Gertrude Parish of the Church of Sweden.
Katarina Church Stockholm
Katarina kyrka (Church of Catherine) is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. The original building was constructed 1656–1695. It has been rebuilt twice after being destroyed by fires, the second time in the 1990s.
Klara Church
The Church of Saint Clare or Klara Church is a church in central Stockholm. A church has been at the site since the 1280s; the current buildings date from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
St. Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm
Saint Eric's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on Södermalm, the southern part of central Stockholm.
Stockholm Mosque
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Mosque, commonly known as the Stockholm Mosque (Stockholms moské) or the Stockholm Grand Mosque (Stockholms stora moské), is the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden.
Monuments
Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm City Hall is the seat of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm.
Parliament House of Sweden (Riksdagshuset)
The Parliament House is the seat of the parliament of Sweden, the Riksdag. It is located on nearly half of Helgeandsholmen (island), in the Gamla stan (old town) district of central Stockholm.
Royal Swedish Opera
The theatre building of the Royal Swedish Opera in central Stockholm.
Kaknästornet
The Kaknäs tower is a telecommunications tower located at Ladugårdsgärdet in Stockholm, Sweden. The tower is a major hub of Swedish television, radio and satellite broadcasts.
Katarina Elevator
The Katarina Elevator or Katarina Lift is a passenger elevator in Stockholm that connects Slussen to the heights of Södermalm. The lift was a shortcut between Katarinavägen, Slussen and Mosebacke torg.
Nature
Kungsträdgården
Kungsträdgården (Swedish for "King's Garden") is a park in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is colloquially known as Kungsan.
Skeppsholmen
Skeppsholmen (Ships' Islet) is one of the islands of Stockholm. It is connected with Blasieholmen and Kastellholmen by bridges.
Djurgården
Djurgården (pronounced or) or, more officially, Kungliga Djurgården (Swedish for 'The [Royal] Animal Park'), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Other
Gröna Lund
Gröna Lund, or colloquially Grönan, is an amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden.
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