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Sveriges Järnvägsmuseet
Inside Gävle’s former engine shed, this excellent museum traces the history of the railway in Sweden through seriously hands-on displays. Besides numerous old locomotives and carriages that you can clamber inside (including the 1859 hunting coach belonging to King Karl XV), there a
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Skissernas Museum
The exhibition rooms here with their visual feast of paintings and sculpture are designed for maximum impact and art immersion. Several sculptures and installations are huge, including the 6m-high Women by the Sea by Ivar Johnsson. Formerly a private collection, it includes works b
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Kosta Boda Art Hotel
As befitting the best hotel in the Glass Kingdom, Kosta Boda Art Hotel showcases inspired glasswork in unusual ways – like a designer glass bar. Each of the 102 rooms also features glasswork and textiles by Kosta Boda artists. Even if you don’t stay the night, drop in for the mouth
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Kolmården
This zoo is Scandinavia’s largest, with some 750 residents from all climates and continents. Features include a safari park and a separate Tropicarium with its motley crew of spiders, sharks, alligators and snakes. The zoo also puts on dolphin shows which may concern some visitors,
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Lappstaden
The first church was built in Arvidsjaur in 1607, and church-attendance laws (urged by zealous priests and enforced by the monarchy) imposed a certain amount of pew time upon the nomadic Sami. To make their church visits manageable they built small, square cottages with pyramid-sha
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Hälsinglands Museum
The Hälsinglands Museum covers local history, culture and art, including a recreated cottage interior with traditional painted furniture and costumes from the region. Highlights are the eerily illuminated medieval church art, including a particularly striking Madonna carved by loca
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Halmstads Beaches
Packed with tanned sun worshippers in the summer, Blue Flag–designated Tylösand, 8km west of town, is Halmstads most popular beach, with a perpetual party vibe courtesy of the surrounding bars and restaurants. Head to the signposted Tjuvahålan smugglers cove to search for pirate tr
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Värmlands Museum
The award-winning and imaginative Värmlands Museum occupies two buildings on Sandgrundsudden (reclaimed land now converted into a pleasant park) near the library. Its multimedia displays cover local history and culture from the Stone Age to current times, including music, the river
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Atoklimpen
Atoklimpen (1006m), a monolithic, bare mountain 35km west of Tärnaby, has been regarded as holy by the Sami for centuries. Evidence dating back to the 15th century of sacrificial sites and encampments with hearths is scattered across the area; a 3km trail leads up to the top. Near
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Dunkers Kulturhus
Just north of the transport terminal, the crisp white Dunkers Kulturhus houses the main tourist office, an interesting town museum and temporary exhibitions (admission includes entry to both), plus a concert hall, an urbane cafe and a design-savvy gift shop. The building’s creator,
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Gamla Linköping & Valla Fritidsområde
Located 2km west of the city, this is one of the biggest living-museum villages in Sweden. It’s a gorgeous combo of cobbled streets, picket-fenced gardens and around 90 19th-century houses. Take bus 12 or 19 (Skr25).Just 300m through the forest is Valla Fritidsområde, a recreation
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Krapperups Slott
One of Sweden’s oldest estates and home to an exquisite garden, the manor has an exterior inlaid with giant white stars representing the coat of arms of the Gyllenstierna family, who lived here for centuries. One-hour tours of the building (Skr100; Easter to late June and mid-Septe
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Eketorp
If you can’t picture how the ring forts looked in their prime, take a trip to Eketorp. The site has been partly reconstructed to show typical fortified villages in medieval times. Children will love the scampering pigs, and the fort is particularly fun when there are re-enactment d
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Universeum
In what is arguably the best museum for kids in Sweden, you find yourself in the midst of a humid rainforest, complete with trickling water, tropical birds and butterflies flitting through the greenery and tiny marmosets. On a level above, roaring dinosaurs maul each other, while n
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Ritamäki Finngård
Known for its characteristic smokehouse, Ritamäki Finngård, 32km west of Torsby and 10km from Lekvattnet, is one of the best-preserved Finnish homesteads in the area. It was probably built in the late 17th century and was inhabited until 1964, making it the last permanently inhabit
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Fredriksdals Friluftsmuseum
One of Sweden’s best open-air museums, based around an 18th-century manor house (not open to the public), the houses and shops you see here once graced the streets of central Helsingborg; they were moved here, brick for brick, in the 1960s. Thankfully, this is no contrived theme pa
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Röda Sten
Occupying a defunct, graffitied power station beside the giant Älvsborgsbron, Röda Stens four floors are home to such temporary exhibitions as edgy Swedish photography and cross-dressing rap videos by Danish-Filipino artist Lillibeth Cuenca Rasmussen that challenge sexuality stereo
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Silvermuseet
Housed in what used to be a nomad school, the tour de force at Arjeplogs Silvermuseet is the vast collection of Sami silver objects – the most extensive of its kind – including belt buckles, ornate spoons and goblets, and collars that would traditionally have been passed down from
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Fortifications
Karlskrona’s star is the extraordinary offshore Kungsholms Fort , built in 1680 to defend the town. Two-hour guided boat tours depart from Fisktorget, the tourist office or the Marinmuseum. Tickets must be prebooked through the tourist office. Another option is the boat operated by
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Karlsgatan 2
This newly refurbished and expanded space in an old industrial block near the train station combines two museums that were each already noteworthy, making it a top destination. On one side is the Västmanland Länsmuseum (county museum), a huge and elaborate space that introduces the
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