The original kitchen
Pots and tools in place since 1898.
ArildV โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Holger.Ellgaard โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Holger.Ellgaard โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Jan Ainali โ CC BY-SA 3.0
Royal palaces display state ceremony; Hallwyl displays the actual daily life of a wealthy merchant family in all its unpolished detail: the kitchen, larders, servants' rooms and cleaning equipment are all still there. That makes it closer to a social document than a display of taste, and it is what genuinely sets it apart from Drottningholm or the Royal Palace.
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The Hallwyl Museum is a private late-nineteenth-century town palace left exactly as its owners left it โ no refurnishing, no cosmetic restoration. Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl and her husband built it in 1898 with everything then available: electricity, a lift, central heating and indoor bathrooms, luxuries that were very rare in the Stockholm of the day. The key to the place is the countess herself: an exceptionally methodical collector who documented every object in her house across seventy-eight indexed volumes โ from paintings, arms and Chinese porcelain down to kitchen utensils and clothing buttons. She then gave the house and its contents to the state in 1920 on the condition that nothing be changed. The result is not an art display but a complete cross-section of a European class at a fixed moment: the dining room laid, the kitchen with its pots, the billiard room, the concert hall. Guided tours in English open rooms you cannot otherwise enter.
Pots and tools in place since 1898.
A private music room with a full organ.
Hamngatan 4, 111 47 Stockholm