Arkitektur Museet (Museum of Architecture)

Frommer's Review

This museum is only for aficionados -- it's simply not of interest to the ordinary visitor. Founded in 1962 in a building designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, the museum illustrates the art of architecture combined with social planning. It displays copies of rooms, buildings, places, and cities from different eras, covering 1,000 years of Swedish architecture. The history of the buildings is presented in chronological sections. The collection consists of some two million sketches, drawings, and documents, plus a half-million photographs and about 1,000 architectural models. The library alone has some 25,000 volumes, most donated by Swedish architects. It's dedicated to the memory of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, known for his humanitarian efforts in Hungary in 1944 and 1945. Less well known is that Wallenberg was a trained architect; his few existing drawings, mainly from his student days in the United States, are in the museum's archives.

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