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Bärnstensmuseum
Trapped in sticky resin 40 million years ago, insects fight, mate and feed in pieces of amber at the Bärnstensmuseum. The museum is near Höllviken’s southern edge, just off the coast road towards Trelleborg.
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Slottsskogsparken
Slottsskogsparken is an enormous park featuring dozens of walking trails and kid magnets Barnens Zoo and Djurgårdarna , an animal park with farm animals, elk, deer and other furry and feathered Swedish creatures.
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Sundsbergs Gård
Sundsbergs Gård, behind the Hotel Selma Lagerlöf, was featured in Lagerlöf’s Gösta Berling’s Saga and now contains a forestry museum, a furniture and textiles collection, an art exhibition, a cafe and a manor house.
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Tobaks & Tändsticksmuseum
Inside the vast open-air park of Skansen are several other museums, including the Tobaks & Tändsticksmuseum, which traces the history and culture of smoking and the manufacture of those iconic Swedish matches.
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Ystads Konstmuseum
Included in the same ticket as Klostret i Ystad is the Ystads Konstmuseum. In the same building as the tourist office, its savvy collection of southern Swedish and Danish art includes work by the great Per Kirkeby.
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Stadsbiblioteket
The main city library is just north of the city centre. Designed by architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and sporting a curvaceous, technicolour reading room, it’s the finest example of Stockholm’s 1920s neoclassicist style.
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Rune Stones
In the grassy, sloping park between Domkyrkan and the main Uppsala University building are nine typical Uppland rune stones. Theres another row of them propped in the grass just outside the entrance to the Domkyrka.
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Södra Stadsberget
The southern hill, Södra Stadsberget (250m), has an extensive plateau that is good for hiking, with trails up to 12km long. Buses 70 and 71, respectively, run to the two hills from platform K (four to five daily) in summer.
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Smögen Fish Auction
Fishing boats unload their catches of prawns, lobsters and fish at the Smögen harbour. You can score some über-fresh shellfish if you get to the small fish auction early enough: the big one happens online these days.
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Gárdi
Near the church is Gárdi, a reindeer yard that you can tour with a Sami guide to learn about reindeer farming and Sami culture. Regular bus 501 runs between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi (Skr29, 30 minutes, several daily).
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Fiskarstan
Beyond Möljen, along Hamngatan, is the grander Fiskarstan (Fishermen’s Town), consisting of partially preserved, elegantly wood-panelled merchants’ yards and winter dwellings of local fishermen, dating back to the early 19th century.
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Joe Hillgården
One of the houses in Gamla Gefle is a museum marking the birthplace of the US labour-union organiser. Hill was wrongly convicted of a murder and executed in Utah in 1915. Some of his folk songs form part of the memorial here.
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Gamla Gefle
A fire in 1869 wiped out most of the colourful old wooden buildings that formed the town’s core. Today the little cluster that survived the fire is preserved in the rickety jumble that is Gamla Gefle, just south of the city centre.
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Sveriges Fängelse Museum
Duck into underground dungeons, check out ye olde instruments of retribution, peer into the windowless punishment cells and enjoy the tableaux of slatterns and miscreants getting merry inside one of Swedens first penitentiaries.
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Halmstads Konstmuseum
Besides the modest permanent collection of works by the Halmstad Group, Halmstads Konstmuseum hosts some impressive temporary exhibitions. Recent ones have included Africa Is a Great Country by acclaimed photographer Jens Assur.
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Bohusläns Museum
Bohusläns Museum , near the bus station, tells the history of the area from the Stone Age onwards, with displays on traditional stone, boat-building and fish-preserving industries. There’s also an art gallery and restaurant.
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Berggrenska Gården
Berggrenska gården is the only remaining early-19th-century commercial courtyard in Gävle. It’s now home to artists’ studios and galleries, which are open to the public (Thursday to Saturday), and a central bakery and coffeeshop.
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Disagården
Follow signs from the grave mounds to Disagården, a 19th-century farming village turned open-air museum consisting of 26 timber buildings and a platform stage that serves as the focal point for Uppsala’s Midsummer celebrations.
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Slussområde
Take a wander southwest to Slussområde, a lovely waterside area of parkland and ancient lock systems. Here you’ll find cafes and the Kanalmuseet , which runs through the history of the canal as well as exhibiting over 50 model ships.
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Oscar Fredriks kyrka
A short walk further west, the Linné district holds fast to its grungy roots, especially along the Långgatan streets. Looking out over the ’hood is the spindly, neo-Gothic Oscar Fredriks kyrka , another 19th-century ecclesial creation.
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