Kastellet
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Ready-made walk · Stockholm

Art on the Water: Blasieholmen and Skeppsholmen

3 stops · ~1 hr 25 min · 1.5 km

Art & Museums

A short walk from Nationalmuseum, Sweden's leading museum of art and design, across the bridge to Skeppsholmen and Moderna Museet, scene of a daring Picasso theft in 1993. Finish at Kastellet, the little brick citadel on Kastellholmen with views over the harbour.

The stops, in walking order

  1. Kastellet
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    Stop 1: Kastellet

    ~3 min here

    The round brick tower before you is Kastellet, a small citadel on Kastellholmen in central Stockholm.

  2. Moderna Museet
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    Stop 2: Moderna Museet

    ~3 min here

    Moderna Museet is the modern and contemporary art museum you see on Skeppsholmen, in a building designed by Rafael Moneo.

  3. Nationalmuseum
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    Stop 3: Nationalmuseum

    ~1 hr here

    This is Nationalmuseum, Sweden’s leading museum for art and design, housed on Blasieholmen in a building created especially for the museum.

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