Stockholm Concert Hall
Every December this blue hall hands out Nobel Prizes — the rest of the year it belongs to Carl Milles' bronze gods and the Philharmonic.
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Ivar Tengbom's 1926 building serves as Stockholm's cultural nerve center: home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the annual site of both the Nobel Prize and Polar Music Prize ceremonies. The exterior facing Hötorget rewards a look even without a ticket.
What to look for
- Carl Milles' Orfeus-brunnen — a 1936 bronze fountain on the exterior depicting Orpheus, positioned toward Hötorget square
- The Grünewald Hall inside, whose walls and ceiling were painted by artist Isaac Grünewald
- Decorative interior work by Ewald Dahlskog throughout the hall
The blue building sits on the eastern edge of Hötorget; the Milles fountain is visible from the square at no cost.
Stockholm Concert Hall 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.