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VenueThe National Museum of Science and Technology
Inventiveness throughout history and the present day converge at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden’s biggest museum of technology. The National Museum of Science and Technology was founded in 1924 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (formerly the Federation of Swedish Industries), the Swedish Inventors' Association and the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers. The building was designed in the functional style by Ragner Hjorth and was opened in 1936. The museum became a foundation in 1947 and since 1964 has operated with state funding. The galleries at the National Museum of Science and Technology exhibit a broad spectrum of technology, industrial history and the natural sciences. The galleries present today's and yesterday's technologies, and give the visitor an idea of what technologies might exist in the future. The galleries comprise around 10,000 square metres and the museum attracts around 170,000 visitors every year. The museum’s collections consist of just over 50,000 objects and artefacts, 600 shelf metres of archival records and documents, 200,000 drawings, 620,000 images and just over 50,000 books. The National Museum of Science and Technology also documents technologies, processes, stories and memoirs in order to preserve them for posterity. Address: Telephone: +46 8 450 56 00  The spectacular Machine Hall houses some giants of bygone years - vehicles and machines smelling of oil and metal.
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