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The best things to do in Stockholm: artpage 2

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The best things to do in Stockholm: art, page 2

Number 21
Attraction

Bagarmossen subway station

See Gert Marcus’s screen-printed glass plates in the underground station that replaced Bagarmossen’s former surface-level stop.

Bagarmossen

Number 22
Attraction

Bagarmossens tunnelbana

See Gert Marcus’s coloured glass panels along the walls of the underground station.

Bagarmossen

Number 23
Attraction

Ditte Lauridsen galleri

To see a gallery whose focus combines Scandinavian references with a Latin American twist.

Nybrogatan 45

Number 24
Attraction

Hallonbergen subway station

See childhood drawings turned into fantastical station artwork by Elis Eriksson and Gösta Wallmark.

Sundbyberg

Number 25
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Hallonbergens tunnelbana

Go to see station walls filled with monsters and contraptions drawn from childhood imagery.

Sundbyberg

Number 26
Attraction

Hötorgets tunnelbana

Go to see Gun Gordillo’s neon loops alongside the station’s retained 1950s tiles, signs, benches and bins.

Hötorget

Number 27
Attraction

Mörby Centrum subway station

The walls appear to change color as you move from one end of the platform to the other.

Danderyd

Number 28
Attraction

Östermalmstorg subway station

Go to see Siri Derkert’s sketches and portraits of people involved in environmental and women’s rights work on the station walls.

Östermalmstorg

Number 29
Attraction

Prinsessan Estelles Skulpturpark

Go to see contemporary sculpture on Kungliga Djurgården, including Cristina Iglesias’s 2026 work, *Aurora Borealis Star Dome*.

Kungliga Djurgården

Number 30
Attraction

Solna Centrum subway station

Go to see the forest paintings and the political scenes added by artists Karl-Olov Björk and Anders Åberg.

Solna

Number 31
Attraction

Solna Strand subway station

See how Takashi Naraha’s cubes mirror the open sky while a black cube outside the entrance relates to the dark cave below ground.

Solna

Number 32
Attraction

T-Centralen subway station

Go to see Per Olof Ultvedt’s blue-line platform art while passing through Stockholm’s subway hub.

T-Centralen

Number 34
Attraction

Tensta subway station

Go to see the platform artwork and its words celebrating people from different cultures.

Spånga

Number 35
Attraction

Tenstas tunnelbana

Go to see a metro station’s platform art, including works dedicated to solidarity and brotherhood.

Spånga

Number 36
Attraction

Thorildsplan subway station

Go to see Lars Arrhenius’s 8-bit-inspired tile artwork at a surface-level subway station.

Thorildsplan

Number 37
Activity

Coulisse

To see work by emerging artists, including exhibitions that often address environmental, gender or queer themes.

Gävlegatan 10B

Number 38
Attraction

Citybanan – Odenplan

See “Life Line”, a 400-metre LED artwork inspired by the artist’s son’s heartbeats.

Odenplan

Number 39
Attraction

Hornsgatspuckeln

Go to see the raised remnant of old Hornsgatan and its art galleries and historically important buildings.

Hornsgatan 24-50

Number 40
Attraction

Kulturkvarter Snösätra

Go to see murals by Swedish and international artists in an open-air setting.

Högdalen

How this list is made

Ranked by the Herald score: recognition (guides, heritage, visitor numbers, the tourism boards), interest from abroad (English Wikipedia), what Sweden Herald readers rate and read, how recently the facts were checked, and the editors. Nothing a place pays changes its place in the list.

Updated 3 November 2026

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