The Orangery Museum
Swedish sculpture in a 17th-century glasshouse.
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Three are worth it, and the order is clear. **Drottningholm** first by a wide margin — the royal family's actual home, on the World Heritage list, with the original Baroque theatre and its eighteenth-century stage machinery and the Chinese Pavilion; it is reached by boat from central Stockholm, which is a pleasure in itself. Second the **Royal Palace** in Gamla Stan, the largest inhabited palace in Europe with six hundred rooms and a daily changing of the guard. Third **Ulriksdal**, for anyone who wants the quiet and the park more than the state rooms. **Gripsholm** fourth, for anyone with a full day.
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Ulriksdal Palace stands north of Stockholm on the shore of Edsviken bay, one of the ten Swedish royal palaces and by a wide margin the least crowded. It was built in 1645 for a military commander, passed to the royal family, and took the name of Queen Ulrika Eleonora. It served for centuries as a summer residence, and King Gustaf VI Adolf lived in it until his death in 1973. Two buildings in the grounds are worth more than the palace itself: the **Orangery Museum**, holding the Swedish sculpture collection in a seventeenth-century glasshouse, and the **Confidencen theatre** — among the oldest preserved theatres in Sweden, still giving performances, and named after a mechanical dining table that rose fully laid from the floor below so the king could eat without servants in the room. The English park on the water is large, free and always open even when the palace is shut. **The palace's hours are strongly seasonal** — check.
Swedish sculpture in a 17th-century glasshouse.
Free and always open even when the palace is shut.
Ulriksdal, Solna, north of Stockholm