Culture Night is here again! Free entrance to most cultural places - museums, theatres, opera, culture schools, churches. It depends if these places open their premises to the public for free. Photography Museum still requires a fee! I have heard great reviews on Photography Museum and I have not gotten the opportunity to step inside, mainly because I don't wish to pay for the fees yet. Culture Night starts from 6pm to midnight. Stockholm was bustling with people that evening!
We went to 3 places. The first place on the agenda was Tessin Palace's Garden. I have never heard of this place before. One has to queue up the day before to collect the ticket to enter into the palace. Without the tickets, one is only limited to the garden. I did not find anything spectacular in the garden except that the garden has lovely tulips.
The Tessin Palace (Swedish: Tessinska palatset) is a baroque town house located in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm. Located next to the Royal Palace, it is facing Slottsbacken, the major approach to the Stockholm Palace, and flanked by two alleys, Finska Kyrkogränd and Bollhusgränd. The mansion was constructed between 1694 and 1700 by architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The building was inherited by Tessin's son Carl Gustaf Tessin who had to sell it in 1750 for financial reasons. The palace later became property of the crown and has been used as residence for the Governor of Stockholm and later Governor of Stockholm County. Source from Wikipedia.
The walk continues to Strindberg Museum. August Strindberg is one of Sweden's famous authors and playwrights. Every student who studied in Sweden knows of him. His plays are continuously produced till today. I watched one of his plays in January this year - Fordringsägare. I read about him in my Swedish course too. The museum is located in his apartment, where he stayed for 4 years till his death, which is on the 4th floor of the house, so you can imagine that it is a small museum but it has an entrance fee of SEK75. I was surprised! The museum was separated into 3 sections - an exhibition on his works, his actual residence where the visitors have to wear shoes' covers before stepping inside, and his library which is located on the highest floor of the house.
This is a collection of the library cards for his books.
A model of August Strindberg's home.
The man himself.
Mr Strindberg passed away on his bed due to stomach cancer.
His writing desk. We were separated by a large glass.
The view from his library.
The walk continues on to the Toy Museum that was recently relocated from Vasteras.
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