Hallwyl Museum, Art museum in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
The Hallwyl Museum is a five-story palace built from Gävle sandstone in Stockholm's Östermalm district, designed by architect Isak Gustaf Clason in the 1890s. The rooms display a private art collection including paintings, tapestries, furniture, silverware, and porcelain arranged as they were in the original home.
The palace became home to Countess Wilhelmina and Count Walther von Hallwyl from 1898 onward, serving as the setting for their extensive collection. In 1930, Countess Wilhelmina donated the building and its contents to the Swedish state, opening it to the public as a museum.
Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl personally shaped this collection over decades, choosing each piece with deliberate care. Walking through the rooms, visitors experience how she arranged her treasures within her own home, creating spaces that reflect her taste and passions.
The museum is easily accessible by public transportation in central Östermalm. Plan to spend several hours exploring the collection across all five floors at a comfortable pace.
When finished, the palace was equipped with cutting-edge modern systems including electricity, an elevator, central heating, bathrooms, and telephone lines. These late 19th-century innovations remain visible and functional within the historic rooms today.
Location: Stockholm
Inception: 1898
Founders: Walther von Hallwyl, Wilhelmina von Hallwyl
Architects: Isak Gustaf Clason
Official opening: 1938
Made from material: Gävle sandstone
Part of: National Historical Museums of Sweden
Address: Hamngatan 4
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-19:00
Phone: +4684023099
Website: http://hallwylskamuseet.se/en
GPS coordinates: 59.33296,18.07452
Latest update: December 6, 2025 16:01
Stockholm has over 70 museums and cultural institutions spread between its medieval city center and its islands accessible within a few minutes by tram. The city has preserved its original buildings while developing modern exhibition spaces that cover a thousand years of Scandinavian history. Visitors can spend a day walking from the cobbled streets of Gamla Stan, lined with 17th-century merchant houses, to the contemporary galleries of Fotografiska housed in former port warehouses. The permanent collections cover diverse fields. The Vasa Museum displays a 69-meter (226 feet) warship recovered intact after three centuries underwater. The Royal Palace opens its state apartments and treasury to the public. Djurgården Island features several major sites, including Skansen open-air museum with 150 historic buildings from across Sweden, the Modern Art Museum with works by Dalí and Picasso, and ABBA The Museum dedicated to the band that sold 400 million records. The Nobel Museum chronicles the history of the Nobel Prize since 1901 with objects belonging to over 900 laureates.
Sweden stretches from southern sand beaches to forests and tundra in the north. The country preserves records from several millennia: prehistoric rock carvings, Viking burial sites, medieval fortresses, and 18th century ironworks. The coastline includes limestone cliffs, archipelago islands, and wooden piers at small fishing villages. This collection takes you to historical places like Gammelstad Church Town, where hundreds of red wooden huts surround a medieval pilgrimage center, or the Stone Ship Monument at Kåseberga, where raised stones form the outline of a Viking ship. It also includes national parks such as Skuleskogen with its spruce forests and steep coasts, ironworks like Engelsberg where charcoal blast furnaces still stand, and museums like the Hallwyl collection in Stockholm. Visitors find island fortresses, peatlands, long-distance trails through arctic regions, and villages that show Swedish life from earlier centuries.
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