The best museums Gothenburg

The Museum of Fine Arts has one of the first collections of international art in the country. It exhibits mainly Swedish and Nordic painters from the ^16th century to the present (Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson, Ivar Arosenius, Karl Isaksson, Anders Zorn, Edvard Munch...), but also Dutch and Flemish painters from the ^17th century. The museum houses private collections, such as that of Fürstenberg, much admired for its Nordic light and fin de siècle melancholy. On the^first floor, an exhibition is devoted to art after 1945. On the^2nd and^3rd floors, sculptures (Rodin, Per Hasselberg, Johan Tobias Sergel, Henry Moore, Carl Milles...), graphics and drawings. The real masterpieces are exhibited on the^4th and^5th floors. Nordic art of the ^18th and ^19th centuries and the beginning of the ^20th century exhibits, among others, cheerful and rural oil paintings by the Dane Peder Severin Sekoyer (1851-1909), such as The Artists' Festival in Skagen, and funereal ones such as The Death of Charles XII, by Gustaf Cederström (1845-1933), the Double Portrait by Alexander Roslin (1718-1793), and many beautiful oil paintings by Anders Zorn (1860-1920) that show the soft light of the Nordic summers. Of particular note is Nils Forsberg's (1842-1934) terrifying and realistic Family of Acrobats in Front of the Circus Director. Among the more recent works, one should particularly note an oil painting by Odd Nerdrum (born 1944), the enfant terrible of contemporary Nordic art.

Here, different types of environments have been recreated that are home to many rare animal species. You can visit the exhibits in any order. The underwater life, with huge aquariums in which turn large sturgeons, beautiful rays and especially sharks; the deadly animals: behind glass walls, some of the most dangerous reptiles in the world; an area dedicated to the polar fauna; and especially the reconstruction of a tropical forest where you move freely, rubbing shoulders with small monkeys, caimans and iguanas.

The city museum, located in the building that once housed the offices and warehouses of the former East India Company (Östindiskahuset), is a combination of an archaeological museum, a historical museum, an industrial museum and a theater museum. Today it houses several historical collections evoking the life of Gothenburg from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as temporary exhibitions on modern and contemporary Gothenburg.

The largest floating museum in the world! You can learn a lot about life at sea, all in a fun way and without even having to leave the dock! You can visit a large military ship, a destroyer, barges, cargo ships, but also a real submarine. To recover from all these discoveries, you can sit down for a drink or a bite to eat in the museum's restaurant. In all, 19 ships and barges can be seen.

Opened in 1916, the Röhss Museum is dedicated to decorative arts and design. The approximately 50,000 design, decorative arts and fashion artifacts that make up the permanent collection come primarily from Scandinavia and Europe, but also from Greek antiquity and the Far East. They were selected not for their historical significance or the symbolic value they fulfilled in their time, but for their aesthetic value and technical qualities.

Founded in 1833 and pleasantly located in Slottsskogen Park, it is the oldest museum in the city. In 1923, the museum moved from the East India building to new, purpose-built premises in Slottsskogen, where it was expanded in 1981. It displays the country's wildlife and animals from around the world, including a stuffed whale and elephant. The museum has a collection of nearly 10 million animals, no less!