Millesgården
A sculptor's island home where the terraced grounds are the gallery.
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Carl Milles lived and worked here from 1908 until 1931, then in 1936 the entire estate was turned into a foundation and gifted to the Swedish people. Three distinct parts make up the site: the artists' former home, a sculpture park across terraced grounds, and an art hall designed by Johan Celsing that opened in October 1999.
What to look for
- Lilla Ateljén, the sculpture workshop at the entrance of the middle terrace
- The Woodland Chapel, added in the late 1940s — the burial site of Carl and Olga Milles
- The Millesgården Art Hall by architect Johan Celsing, on the lower terrace, inaugurated 1999
Millesgården is on the island of Lidingö — factor in travel time from central Stockholm.
Millesgården 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.
- Avicii ArenaA 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.
- 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.