Park, Movie theater in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
Park was a movie theater on Sturegatan 18 with a single screen and 711 seats housed in a streamlined modern building from 1941. The hall was designed for comfortable film viewing, with its layout focused on providing a good experience for audiences.
Architect Björn Hedvall designed the venue, which opened on November 21, 1941, starting with 923 seats. Over the following decades, it remained largely unchanged and kept its original single-screen character.
The neon sign running vertically up the Sturegatan facade, ending in the name at roof height, was nominated for the Lysande skylt award in 2016; the jury called Park a pearl and nearly unique as a single-screen cinema with 707 seats. Since autumn 2025 the hall has been closed for conversion into a gym.
The venue was located at a central address in Östermalm and was easily accessible for visitors in the area. The building maintained its basic structure over its operational years, with seating refreshed late in the 1990s to improve comfort.
At its 1941 opening, Park's neon signage was said to be Europe's largest, with 300 metres of neon tubing; a vertical light strip runs up the facade to the cinema's name at roof height. The sign was nominated for the Lysande skylt award in 2016.
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