Stockholm Transport Museum

The collection of the transport museum was started by the head of transport in Stockholm, Ernst Hjortzberg, as early as 1900. It opened in 1922 and moved to its present location in 2022 in the redeveloped Gasworks District in the Stockholm Royal Seaport (Norra Djurgårdsstaden). Large parts of the huge gasworks built in the 1890s are preserved with new uses. The brick buildings were laid out on a grid plan and designed in a simplified and functional Jugendstil style by Ferdinand Boberg. The museum explains public transport in the lives of Stockholmers for more than 150 years. The displays on several floors cover public transport on water, road and rail, by horse-tram, metro, commuter train, tramway, bus and boat. Some 80 vehicles at the museum include a horse-drawn bus of around 1840 (the ‘Wurst’) and Sweden's first electric tram of 1901. The collections also comprise a rich archive of 500,000 photographs and 20,000 drawings as well as 10,000 other objects and models.