Top Things to Do in Stockholm, Sweden, from a Cruise Ship - Created by BoostVacations.com Staff

From wreck to state of the art! The warship Vasa sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm 1628 and was salvaged in 1961. It's the only preserved 17th century ship in the world. Exhibitions, guided tours, film, research. Free for children.

The Vasa Museum ( Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

Djurgården ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjʉː(r)ɡɔɳ, ˈjʉːrˈɡoːɖɛn]) or, more officially, Kungliga Djurgården ( Swedish: "The (Royal) Game Park") is an island in central Stockholm. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open air museum Skansen, the small residential area Djurgårdsstaden, yacht harbours, and extensive stretches of forest and meadows.

Stockholm is the seat of the Government of Sweden and most government agencies, including the highest courts in the Judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The Government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Minister's residence is adjacent at the Sager House.

Stockholm City Hall ( Swedish: Stockholms stadshus or Stadshuset locally) is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm.

Millesgården is an art museum and sculpture garden, located on the island of Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on the grounds of the home of sculptor Carl Milles and his wife, artist Olga Milles, who are both buried there.

Kungliga Operan ( The Royal Swedish Opera, lit. "The Royal Opera") is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet. The building is located in the center of Sweden's capital Stockholm in the borough of , on the eastern side of Gustav Adolfs torg across from the former Arvfurstens Palats , now Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

An open-air museums and living history museums are a category of museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. European open-air museums are variously known as skansen, museums of buildings and folk museums. A recent form is the Ecomuseum, which originated in France.

Fotografiska is housed at Stadsgården, in a former industrial Art Nouveau style[citation needed ] building dating from 1906. Designed by Ferdinand Boberg, the building was used as a customs house, and is listed as a building of cultural interest. The original brick facade of building is intact, while the interiors have been renovated to house the museum.

A view down the Strömma Canal showing the lifting bridge and restaurant

Welcome to a house of fantasy play - Junibacken on Djurgården in Stockholm Experience a day of magic in our fantasy house on Djurgården in Stockholm. A house that bubbles with stories, laughter, familiar figures - and mischief.

Junibacken is a children's museum, founded by Staffan Götestam, Fredrik Urström and Peder Wallenberg. It is situated on the island of Djurgården in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden. The museum was officially opened by the Swedish Royal Family on June 8, 1996. The museum is Stockholm's 5th most-visited tourist attraction.

Junibacken ett lekfullt museum med barnboken i centrum. Barnaktiviteter som barnteater, sagotåg och barnkalas. Besök Junibacken i Stockholm.

The two former boroughs made up the eastern and western half of the island of Södermalm. The Maria-Gamla Stan also included the island districts of Gamla Stan, Långholmen, Reimersholme, Riddarholmen and Årsta holmar; Katarina-Sofia included the district Södra Hammarbyhamnen south of Södermalm. All these districts are now parts of the new Södermalm borough.

The Swedish History Museum (known in Swedish as Historiska museet or, more formally, Statens historiska museum) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic onwards. It is one of the largest museums in Sweden and holds more than 10 million artefacts.