Högvakten, Skeppsholmen

Högvakten, Skeppsholmen is an office building in Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County. Högvakten, Skeppsholmen is situated nearby to the museum Skeppsholmen Caverns, as well as near Stockholm Toy Museum.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Moderna Museet.

Stockholm Central Station

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Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Moderna Museet

Museum

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Moderna Museet is a state museum for modern and contemporary art and design, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. Moderna Museet is situated 150 metres east of Högvakten, Skeppsholmen.

Nationalmuseum

Museum

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Nationalmuseum is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm. The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the National Portrait Gallery collection at Gripshom, the Gustavsberg porcelain museum, several castle collections and the Swedish Institute in Paris. Nationalmuseum is situated 300 metres northwest of Högvakten, Skeppsholmen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blasieholmen and Stockholm.

Blasieholmen

Locality

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Blasieholmen is a peninsula in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located east of Kungsträdgården. Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to Norrmalm, during the 17th century.

Stockholm

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Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within Stockholm County. The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Högvakten, Skeppsholmen

Type: Office building
Description: building in Sweden
Categories: building and office
Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

59.3263° or 59° 19′ 35″ north

Longitude

18.0813° or 18° 4′ 53″ east

Inception

1777

Levels

Height

7.5 metres (25 feet)

Open location code

9FFW83GJ+GG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27741854

OpenStreetMap feature

building=office

Wikidata ID

Q10532448

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In Other Languages

From Norwegian Bokmål to Swedish—“Högvakten, Skeppsholmen” goes by many names.

Norwegian Bokmål: “Högvakten”
Swedish: “Högvakten, Skeppsholmen”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Skeppsholmen Caverns and Stockholm Toy Museum.

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