Swedish Army Museum

Swedish Army Museum, or Armémuseum, is a military-history museum at Riddargatan 13 in Östermalm, beside Artillerigården and near Hedvig Eleonora Church and the Royal Stables. It opened in 1879 as the Artillery Museum, occupying an arsenal site used for military purposes since the seventeenth century; the present buildings were erected in the late eighteenth century, and the institution adopted the name Army Museum around 1930. Its galleries trace Sweden’s wars, military society, neutrality, and twentieth-century defence history through uniforms, weapons, life-size figures, battle scenes, soldiers’ living conditions, and captured banners and trophies from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A dedicated room covers Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who helped save thousands of Jews during the final months of the Second World War, while the collection contains more than 105,000 objects. The museum reopened after major refurbishment in 2002 and received Stockholm’s Best Museum award in 2005; current regular hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00, with later closing on Tuesday, while temporary exhibitions and holiday hours should be checked before arrival.