Stockholm is known for its natural beauty as well as its historic civic buildings and monuments. Lesser known are the 20th-century artists’ house and studio museums, including those of the Pippi Longstocking author and two Swedish sculptors, Carl Milles and Carl Eldh. Two of the city’s architecturally significant dwellings range from the earthbound—the Markeliushuset, the first apartment building to prioritize working women—to the heavenly, the Woodland Cemetery, where Greta Garbo is buried. All are open to the public seasonally, and reservations are essential.
Astrid Lindgren’s Home, Dalagatan 46
Astrid Lindgren, the author of the Pippi Longstocking children’s-book series, about a much-beloved, firebrand orphan, lived at Dalagatan 46, in Stockholm, from 1941 until her death, in 2002. The modest apartment is on the second floor of a nondescript building across from the bucolic Vasaparken park.
