One of the most incredible art you'll find in Stockholm is actually on it's subway. The Swedes get to experience beautiful art on their daily commutes. Now that's a luxury I can get behind
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One of the most incredible art you'll find in Stockholm is actually on it's subway. The Swedes get to experience beautiful art on their daily commutes. Now that's a luxury I can get behind
T Centralen
The art is spread around many stations, sometimes called the longest art exhibition in the world. This one here is the T Centralen station, as the name suggest is the central station in Stockholm connecting to all the different areas of the city
Stockholm Central Station
The central station platform is quite impressive too.
Tekniska Högskolan
But if you head to Tekniska Högskolan, you can feel like you are in some Star Trek alien planet. There is a marking below this space apparatus to ensure smooth teleportation between planets.
Tekniska Högskolan
The cryptic instructions on how to bend space and time has been written very clearly on the side of the station
Tekniska Högskolan
You can also take the slower rainbow escalator if teleportation is not your thing.
Stadion Station
Stadion station was my favorite one. It looks so good that when I was there, a photoshoot was going on with a model posing presumingly for raincoats I guess?
Stadion Station
There are also pointy rainbow arrows directing you incase you feel dizzy by all this remarkable artwork.
Stadion Station
Also some colorful flowers to keep you refreshed while waiting for the train. For a comprehensive guide to all the subway artwork checkout this guide
Stockholm
When you emerge out of the subway, a beautiful city awaits you.
Stockholm
The streets are clean and fancy looking.
Brantingmonumentet
The Branting Monument shows prominent socialist Hjalmar Branting leading a group of workers. He lead a successful anti-war movement against Norway for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize. He went on to become Sweden's prime minister twice.
Riksdagshuset
A brisk walk from the monument, you can see the Parliament building. It is right after the arch you saw earlier. This is where one of the world's biggest socialist polices are debated and agreed upon
Drottninggatan & Strömgatan
Despite all the care-taking socialism, Swedish society is not very sympathetic towards bronze fox statues. They have to resort to begging on the streets. This statue by British sculptor Laura Ford is called the 'Rag and Bones'
Vasa Museum
Island of Djurgården in Stockholm is filled with museums, you might as well be called the island of museums. One of the museums on the island hosts a fully intact 17th century warship called the Vasa. The Vasa museum is the most visited museum in all of Scandinavia
Vasa Museum
And you can see why. This massive warship and it's detailed wood work is definitely worth checking out.
Vasa Museum
In it's glory days, this is how it looked. Terrorizing the high seas with it's 64 guns and 300 soldiers
Stortorget, Gamla Stan
Stockholm also has some iconic old buildings which you can checkout in the old town, Gamla Stan.
Random street
Lot of the old buildings have some interesting looking features to them. Like these black windows popping out for the walls
Random street
And age is not a factor in Stockholm. Even if you are 50+, head over to the disco and dance to some smashing hits!