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

The Nordic Museum ( Swedish: Nordiska museet) 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 age (which for purposes of Swedish history is said to begin in 1520) until the contemporary period.

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.

Från vrak till världsklass! Skeppet Vasa kantrade och sjönk i Stockholm 1628 och är idag världens enda bevarade 1600-talsskepp. Gratis för barn. Utställningar, familjeaktiviteter, visningar, film, forskning.

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.

The Stockholm City Museum ( Swedish: Stockholms stadsmuseum ) is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. The building was completed in 1685. In the 1930s the museum moved in and opened to the public in 1942.

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.

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

Fotografiska i Stockholm är inget museum, utan en mötesplats, om och för fotografi. Upplev intressanta utställningar, ha konferens eller gå en fotokurs. Välkommen!

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.

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.

Named after its location, the church was built 1823-1849 to replace a minor wooden church on Blasieholmen destroyed in the devastating fire of 1822. Inaugurated by King Charles XIV John and still officially carrying his name, it was designed by the architect Fredrik Blom as a neoclassical octahedral temple inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, borrowing the coffered ceiling while substituting the oculus for the temple-shaped lantern light.

Positioned strategically at the Baltic Sea entrance to Stockholm, it has traditionally been the location of several military buildings. Today the military presence is low and several museums can be found there instead, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the main modern art museum of Stockholm, the architectural museum, in the same building, and Östasiatiska Muséet (East-Asian museum).

Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde ( Swedish: "Cape of Waldemar"), the scenic former home of the Swedish Prince Eugen, is a museum located on Djurgården in central Stockholm. The name is derived from a historical name of the island Djurgården, Valmundsö (see History of Djurgården.)

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 Maritime Museum ( Swedish: Sjöhistoriska museet) is a museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located in the Gärdet section of the inner-city district Östermalm, the museum offers a panoramic view of the bay Djurgårdsbrunnsviken. The building was built to the design of the architect Ragnar Östberg between 1933 and 1936.

The Drottningholm Palace ( Swedish: Drottningholms slott) is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. It is located in Drottningholm. Built on the island Lovön (in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County), it is one of Sweden's Royal Palaces. It was originally built in the late 16th century.