#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)!

#48 Nordic Museum

The Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museet) is free every Wednesday evening from 5pm until closing at 8pm. So naturally I decided it was time for a visit. It seems living in Stockholm has its benefits!

The most surprising thing about Nordiska is perhaps that it's not as Nordic as you might expect. . .it was agreed by my international group of friends that we had expected much older exhibits and something more to do with Vikings and the such. However, it is pretty big and they have some interesting items on display.

The outside

The main hall

This large statue is the first thing you see as you enter

Part of the special Jewellery exhibit

Fashion exhibit

Christmas scene

Underwear made from HUMAN hair!!

Sami things made from reindeer (I think)

A woman being tortured...the only thing not signposted in English!

Unlike most places, you can rent audio guides for free here, which is nice. Almost everything is signposted in English, and I think there are guided tours in English too.

Some of the exhibits included jewellery, clothing, table settings, small items, toys and Sami items. There are also some strange exhibits, including one to do with hair which included a fake salon setting and clothes made from human hair, as well as information about different types of personal grooming through the ages.

Finally, there was a little ornament in the "small things" section that I would like to highlight:

A frog on a toilet. . .inspirational