Admiralty House

The Admiralty House is an admiralty house on the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden. Built in 1647-50 as the Admiralty Board of Sweden moved over to Skeppsholmen, and probably designed by Louis Gillis, a Dutch architect operating in Stockholm…

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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 180 metres northeast of Admiralty House.

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 360 metres northwest of Admiralty House.

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.

Admiralty House

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

59.32566° or 59° 19′ 32″ north

Longitude

18.08122° or 18° 4′ 52″ east

Inception

1650

Levels

Height

20 metres (64 feet)

Roof shape

gabled

Open location code

9FFW83GJ+7F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27742145

OpenStreetMap feature

building=office

Wikidata ID

Q4349047

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Admiralty House” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Admiralty House”
Finnish: “Amiralitetshuset”
French: “maison de l’Amirauté de Stockholm”
French: “Maison de l’Amirauté de Stockholm”
Latvian: “Admiralitātes nams”
Polish: “Amiralitetshuset”
Swedish: “Amiralitetshuset”

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