Swedish canon
The Swedish canon is a 2025 collection of 100 works important for the culture of Sweden up to 1975; fifty years before the compilation.
It contains institutions such as the Right to access, Vasaloppet and IKEA in Älmhult, as well as buildings, and works of art, literature, theatre, film and music.
The committée's list is neither intended to be an objective measure of quality, nor to exclude works not mentioned; instead they have an ambition to raise awareness for works and cultural expressions related to the canon.
| “ | Vast are the spaces of time over which the science of history, with the help of archaeology, has shed light. More than 6,000 years of the existence of the Swedish people have been conquered from the darkness of oblivion by workers in these fields of research. | ” |
—Svenska folkets underbara öden, free translation | ||
Destinations
This list contains tangible works of canon with a geographic location, and museums and hospitality venues which represent intangible works.
- 🌍 Strindbergsmuseet (Strindberg Museum), Drottninggatan 85 (Stockholm/Vasastan). Fin de siècle writer August Strindberg is represented by his story collection Giftas (Getting Married), which got much attention for a desecrating description of the Holy Communion, which led to Strindberg being prosecuted and acquitted. The stories also describe Strindberg's negative view of upper-class women, and his pessimistic view of the nuclear family.
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- 🌍 House of Emigrants (Utvandrarnas Museum), Vilhelm Mobergs gata 4 (Växjö). A museum on the Nordic emigration to North America, showcasing Vilhelm Moberg's Emigrants series.
- 🌍 Royal Palace (Kungliga Slottet).
- 🌍 Nobel Museum (Nobelmuseet) (Stockholm/Gamla stan). The Nobel Prize is a piece of canon. See Nobel tourism for destinations related to the life of Alfred Nobel, and the prize.
- 🌍 Sergels torg (nicknamed Plattan ("the slab" or "the tile")). Stockholm's busiest city square, and a main setting for the 1968 film Dom kallar os mods.
- 🌍 Stockholm City Hall (Stockholm/Kungsholmen).
- Pippi Longstocking. See Astrid Lindgren tourism.
- 🌍 Saint Bridgets Convent Museum (Sancta Birgitta Klostermuseum), Gräsgården, Klosterområdet (Vadstena). In the old royal palace which was rebuilt into the Bridgettine convent.
- 🌍 Härkeberga church (Near Enköping). Chalk paintings by Albertus Pictor.
- 🌍 Falun Copper Mountain (Falun). A UNESCO World Heritage Site representative of the mining industry in Bergslagen.
- Marstrand Synagogue.
- 🌍 Vasaloppsmuséet (The Vasaloppet Museum), Vasagatan 30 (Vasaloppets hus) (Mora (Sweden)). Since 1922, this 90 km (56 mi) ski race commemorates Gustav Vasa's rebellion against the King of Denmark. One of four legs of the Swedish Classic Circuit.
- 🌍 Norrköping industrial district.
- Göta kanal. A canal from the Baltic Sea to Lake Vänern, further connected to the North Sea.
- 🌍 Harsprånget (Jokkmokk). See also Norrbotten megasystem.
- 🌍 Drottningholm Palace Theatre (Ekerö).
- 🌍 Gustavianum (The University Museum).
- 🌍 Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden, Hotellvägen 1 (Stockholm archipelago). A Grand Old Hotel, remembered in Swedish history for the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement, Saltsjöbadsavtalet, an agreement between employers and unions to ensure peace on the labour market. See also Stockholm labour tour.
- 🌍 IKEA Museum, Ikeagatan 5. The IKEA Älmhult store is a piece of canon.
- 🌍 Husaby Church (Götene). See also Skaraborg history tour.
- 🌍 Swedish Air Force Museum (Flygvapenmuseum), Carl Cederströms gata 2 (Linköping). The military aircraft Saab 37 Viggen is a piece of canon.
- 🌍 The Linnaean Garden and the Linnaeus Museum (Linnéträdgården och Linnémuseet), Svartbäcksgatan 27 (Uppsala). Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae is a piece of canon; see also Carl Linnaeus tourism.
- 🌍 Sundsvalls teater. Stage for Lejonets unge by Frida Stéenhoff.
- 🌍 Mårbacka minnesgård. Selma Lagerlöf's childhood home, representing Gösta Berlings saga, which is set around lake Fryken.
- 🌍 Museum of Hälsingland (Hälsinglands Museum), Storgatan 31 (Hudiksvall). Regional history museum with an exhibition on Katarina Taikon, a Roma-Swedish silversmith, activist and writer. Her book Katitzi is part of the canon.