Nationalmuseum
Sweden's national museum of art and design, in a Renaissance-revival palace on Blasieholmen.
Nationalmuseum is Sweden's museum of art and design, holding some 700,000 works. The collections cover painting, sculpture and drawing from the late Middle Ages to about 1900, together with a large body of applied art and design reaching to the present day. Highlights include Dutch and Flemish golden-age paintings, eighteenth-century French art, and Swedish painters such as Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn and Ernst Josephson, whose works hang alongside furniture, glass, ceramics and textiles.
The building on Blasieholmen was designed by the German architect Friedrich August Stüler in a north Italian Renaissance-revival manner and opened to the public in 1866. Between 2013 and 2018 it was closed for a thorough renovation that reopened blocked windows, restored the decorative painting of the staircase hall and added new climate and lighting systems. The museum reopened on 13 October 2018 with a rehung display that mixes fine art and design chronologically, and it also runs the collections at Gripsholm and other royal castles.
Highlights
- Renaissance-revival building by Friedrich August Stüler, opened 1866
- Around 700,000 works of art and design, including Rembrandt and Watteau
- Swedish painting by Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn and Ernst Josephson
- Reopened in 2018 after a five-year restoration of the historic interiors
