Avicii Arena
A 110-metre sphere that serves as the Sun in the world's largest scale model of the solar system — and you can walk right up to it.
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The building is the point. At 110 metres across and 85 metres tall, it was the second largest spherical structure on Earth until the Las Vegas Sphere overtook it in 2023. Opened in 1989, it was renamed in 2021 to honour Swedish DJ Avicii, who died in 2018. To mark the occasion, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra recorded his song "For a Better Day" with a fourteen-year-old singer.
What to look for
- The sheer exterior scale — 110 metres in diameter, held up by a MERO space structure beneath the steel, concrete and glass shell
- The Globen metro station sign, still carrying the arena's original Swedish name despite two official renamings
- The Sweden Solar System plaque marking the building's role as the Sun in a scale model that stretches across the entire country
Take the metro directly to Globen station (Johanneshov district) — the stop kept its original name even after the arena was renamed twice.
Avicii Arena is one of 34 sights worth the detour in Stockholm, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Stockholm pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Stockholm
- Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThis is the body that picks up the phone to tell physicists and chemists they've won the Nobel Prize.
- Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery)A 1920 cemetery built on old pine-covered gravel quarries that went on to reshape how the world designs burial grounds.
- Stockholm PalaceThe same ground has held a royal residence since the 1250s — the current palace took nearly six decades to finish, outlived its architect, and the Rococo interiors are largely unchanged.
- Vasa MuseumA 64-gun warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 — and is still almost entirely intact.
- Skansen150 actual Swedish buildings, shipped piece by piece to one hill — a whole country preserved before industry erased it.
- NationalmuseumSweden's royal art collection, wrested from a bankrupt queen and given to the public — now in a fully restored 1866 palace on the water.