Garbo’s grave at Skogskyrkogården
Greta Garbo: ‘I want to be alone’
To visit the Greta Garbo Museum, you’ll need to travel to Högsby, her mother’s birthplace. However, there are also plenty of traces of Garbo to be found in Stockholm. She used to work as a salesgirl at PUB and played her first film role in a commercial for this department store. She also once stood on the stage of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Garbo is buried in the Skogskyrkogården cemetery, now listed as a World Heritage Site.
August Strindberg's desk
August Strindberg’s Red Room
August Strindberg was not the most famous, but definitely the most illustrious of all Swedish writers. Visit the Strindberg Museum, where his apartment has been preserved for 100 years. The Red Room, formerly a meeting place for intellectuals and the location of Strindberg’s most famous novel, is also still intact and can be found in the Berns design hotel. His plays are performed in the tiny Intima Teater, which he personally established.
The Golden Hall in the city hall
The explosive Stockholm of Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Museum is small but delightful, and surprisingly modern. In the Golden Hall in Stockholm’s city hall, which can be visited during a guided tour, the Nobel Banquet takes place each year and the menu at the Stadshuskällaren restaurant contains all Nobel menus from 1901 to today. Vinterviken, where Nobel started a nitro-glycerine factory and produced dynamite, is now a park. Nobel’s grave can be visited at the Norra Begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery).
