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Wednesday 3 April 2013

#51 Tekniska Museet

Tekniska Museet (aka the Museum of Science and Technology) is another museum free on Wednesday evenings from 5pm (the other being the Nordic Museum).  If you are in Stockholm and like fun things, this place should be high on your list for things to do! 

It's a great place to bring children, and teenagers will enjoy it too. There are lots of interactive things, including a games room for younger children, and also another room aimed for teenagers and adults that includes testing your strength, rowing machines, lift your own weight, dance off, tight rope walking etc. There is also a realistic recreation of a mine which makes you feel a little like you're lining up for a roller-coaster in Disneyland. There are things here with buttons to make things light up or explode, there are places to smell things, there is a room of mirrors, there is a fake little TV studio, and there is a great game called "brainball" that puts two people against each other with a special headband one staring at a ball trying to make it come closer. Really interesting and great fun!! I'm not sure if we learned much about science or technology during our visit, but we all had a really fun time here.



 This lights up!
 The mine!


 TV studio
Brain ball!


The museum is conveniently located on the bus 69 route not far from the city centre in a little group of museums, the most notable being the Maritime Museum (Sjohistoriska) and the Sports Museum (RiksidrotsMuseet) which are always free, but only open until 5pm (so if you plan your Wednesday carefully, you could visit these two museums first and then at 5pm go to Tekniska)!

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