Spårvägsmuseet

The entrance of Spårvägsmuseet and Leksaksmuseet in January 2009.

The Spårvägsmuseet, or Tramway Museum, was located at Tegelviksgatan 22 in Södermalm, Stockholm. In the museum there was also a café, a library, an archive and another museum called Leksaksmuseet ("Toy Museum"). It was owned by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. It showed vehicles and the development of the public transport at Stockholm from the 19th century until present.

The museum closed to the public in September 2017 and will open again in 2019 in new premises in Hjorthagen.[1]

History

The tramway chief Ernst Hjortzberg started collecting things in about 1900, when there were horse trams. There was an internal museum at the headquarters of the company at Tegnérgatan. (You can read about this in a newspaper article from 1922.)

In 1944 the museum was publicly opened on Tulegatan close to the old tram depot. In 1964 the museum was moved to Odenplan, but the museum was small and it was impossible to show many vehicles. In 1990 it moved to its location Tegelviksgatan 22.

References

  1. ↑ "Spårvägsmuseet får nya lokaler i Hjorthagen" [The tram museum will receive new premises in Hjorthagen] (in Swedish). Sveriges Television AB. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

Coordinates: 59°18′42″N 18°05′55″E / 59.31167°N 18.09861°E / 59.31167; 18.09861

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