Fuel museum

Boathouses of the fuel museum, 2016

Lettering SPRIT MUSEUM before Dyktankhuset

The Spritmuseum is a museum in Stockholm . It is located on the west side of the island of Djurgården, part of the Swedish capital Stockholm, in the Östermalm district at Djurgårdsvägen 38 . Immediately to the west is Dyktankhuset .

Establishment and history

The museum, opened in 1967, deals with the topic of alcohol and the importance of alcohol in everyday life and for Sweden. Interactive exhibits at the Spritmuseum also deal with different states of the human body when getting drunk.

Originally located in a different location, the museum opened in May 2012 at its current location. The museum is housed in a listed boathouse built in the 1750s based on the Venetian model by the architect Carl Hårleman . The boathouses were used to accommodate ships of the royal navy. Of the 30 boathouses originally built in Djurgården, known as Galärskjulen , only two have survived .

literature

Kaj Sandell, Stockholm , Dorling Kindersley Verlag Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7342-0019-9 , page 91.

Web links

Commons : Spritmuseum - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Stockholm's Spirit Museum, Cheers! In: eclectix.com. December 29, 2013, accessed March 27, 2018 .

59.325293 18.094287Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 18 ° 5 ′ 39.4 ″ E

[1] Stockholm's Spirit Museum, Cheers! In: eclectix.com. December 29, 2013, accessed March 27, 2018 .