Ostasiatiskamuseet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities)

Description:

• Although it's a short journey to Skeppsholmen, a small island in the middle of central Stockholm, you're really making a trip to the Far East. The collection of archaeological objects, fine arts, and handicrafts from China, Japan, Korea, and India form one of the finest and most extensive museums of its kind outside Asia.

  Among the outstanding displays are Chinese Neolithic painted pottery, bronze ritual vessels, archaic jades, wood carvings, ivory, lacquerwork, and enamelware. You might see Chinese glass, Buddhist sculpture, Chinese painting and calligraphy, Tang tomb pottery figurines, Sung classical stoneware (such as celadon and temmoku), Ming blue-and-white wares, and Ching porcelain made for the Chinese and European markets. The building was erected from 1699 to 1700 as stables for Charles (Karl) XII's bodyguard.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010