Strindbergsmuseet
Stockholm · Sweden
Strindbergsmuseet occupies the final apartment of August Strindberg at Drottninggatan 85 in central Stockholm — the flat he called Blå tornet, the Blue Tower — where he lived from 1908 until his death in 1912. Strindberg was among the most complex and prolific figures in modern cultural history: dramatist, novelist, painter, photographer, and polemicist, and the apartment preserves something of every dimension of his creative life.
The museum is particularly notable for the survival of the library — over three thousand volumes — and the study where Strindberg wrote his last plays. The walls of some rooms still bear his own paintings, a reminder that he considered himself at various points more painter than writer. The influence of his turbulent final years, which combined social reclusion with intense creative output, is tangible throughout.
Visiting the Strindberg Museum is a concentrated and intellectually stimulating experience. The apartment is not large, but the collection is dense and the interpretation excellent. Allow ninety minutes.
Reviews
The library alone is worth the visit. Standing in the room where Strindberg wrote The Ghost Sonata, surrounded by 3,000 books and his own paintings, is genuinely extraordinary.
Intense and atmospheric. The apartment is small but the personality of the man fills every corner. The guides are knowledgeable and clearly love the material. A must for literary visitors to Stockholm.
A fascinating museum — the combination of writer, painter, photographer, and social provocateur in one apartment is remarkable. The library is superbly preserved. Worth the journey to the top of Drottninggatan.
The library alone is worth the visit. Standing in the room where Strindberg wrote The Ghost Sonata, surrounded by 3,000 books and his own paintings, is genuinely extraordinary.
