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Urban Outfitters
That the exterior of trendy concept store Urban Outfitters has a certain star quality is no coincidence. The building used to house the Röda Kvarn (Moulin Rouge), a gorgeous vintage picture palace. While the projectors have gone, the heritage features remain, from the decadent chandeliers to the beautiful hardwood details. Where film buffs once sat, House of Holland T-shirts sit beside Dita Von Teese art books and Bad Boyfriend Voodoo Dolls. Fitting rooms line the grand old stage behind a kitschy mock-chateau facade, and the upstairs foyers now premiere the work of new Stockholm artists. A case of clever conservation or consumerist degradation? You be the judge.
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Tensta Konsthall
Giving outer-suburban Tensta some serious artistic cred, glocal art gallery Tensta Konsthall features a Day of the Triffids –style foyer by design divas Front and a must-see/hear design shop stocked with fresh new talent. Oh, and then there’s the art – four to six major annual exhibitions marrying mixed media with themes like local identity, culture clash and sexuality. Easy to miss, the gallery sits on the bottom level of the Tensta Centrum shopping centre, right beside the Tensta Tunnelbana station. Enter via the car park.
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Färgfabriken
Contemporary art fiends drool over Färgfabriken. The place that once made lawn-mowers now makes headlines with its leading exhibitions – indeed, the New York Art Forum named this hub for contemporary art and architecture one of the world’s best galleries. Check listings or the website for opening hours and upcoming shows and seminars (filmmaker David Lynch once exhibited here) and don’t miss the chance to rub shoulders at an opening party.
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National Museum
Sweden’s largest art museum heaves with paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative arts and graphics, from the Middle Ages through to the present. While there’s no lack of continental bigwigs here, from Cézanne to Watteau, come for the Scandi stuff, which includes works by CG Pilo, Anders Zorn and Carl Larsson, whose commissioned staircase fresco, Midwinter Sacrifice, was originally rejected by the museum. Style buffs shouldn’t miss the Design 19002000 exhibition.
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Kulturhuset
Culture House is the city’s communal lounge room, packed with theatres (including Stockholms Stadsteater), free art galleries, a comic-book library, a chess-playing corner and even a crafts lounge where brooding teens can hang out, drink coffee and express themselves with art supplies and sewing machines. You’ll find design shops and internet access in the basement and a brilliant cafe/restaurant on the 5th floor with monumental modernist views and a sunny summer terrace.
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Riksdagshuset
It mightn’t sound like the most exciting way to spend an hour, but tours of Sweden’s parliament building are actually fascinating, taking in artworks by Otte Sköld and Axel Törneman, as well as Elisabet Hasselberg Olsson’s Memory of a Landscape, a 54-sq-metre, 100kg tapestry woven in 200 shades of grey. The rather dreamy Swedish system of consensus-building, as presented by clued-up guides, has been known to elicit chuckles of disbelief.
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Stadsbiblioteket
Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in 1924, the Stockholm Public Library is one of Sweden’s architectural masterpieces. A classic example of Nordic neoclassicism, its pièce de résistance is the breathtakingly beautiful cylindrical lending hall with its Technicolor panorama of books. Add artwork by Ivar Johnson in the vestibule and Nils Dardel in the children’s library and you have yourself an unmissable Scandi treat.
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Hagaparken
Just north of Vasastaden awaits the regal refuge of Hagaparken, a sprawling 18th-century English-style park sprinkled with royal icons like Haga Slottet palace, eavesdropping Ekotemplet and Slottsruinen, a Versailles-inspired palace left incomplete after the assassination of King Gustav III in 1792.
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Natalia Goldin Gallery
A paint flick away is Natalia Goldin Gallery, a pioneering art space best known for spotlighting hot new talent like photographer Martina Hoogland Ivanow and installation artist Sven Nilsson.
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