The Tre Kronor Museum

The Tre Kronor Museum is all about the old Royal Castle that was called "Tre Kronor" (Three Crowns) after the three crowns on top of the central tower. The Castle was burned to the ground in the great fire of 1997 with the exceptions of the part where the museum is located. In the Museum you will find a lot of information about the old castle but also some items that survived the great fire. There are also the remainings of the old wall from the 13:th century the surrounded the Castle.

The Tre Kronor Museum is the newest museum in the Royal Castle and was opened in December 28:th 1999. Inside there are many models showing how the old Castle looked and of course also a lot of items from it. The old castle was built around a central tower dating from the 12:th or early 13:th century, during the next 400 years the castle grow bigger and bigger and looked more like a fairy tale castle than the present does.

An important part of the Museum is the old wall that surrounded the Castle, it was 6 meter thick and also 6 meter high at the time. When you enter the Museum you are actually walking through this wall. The Museum also displays how people built houses and other things during that time, how the working conditions was in the Castle and much more.

Entrance to the Tre kronor Museum:
Lejonbacken, Gamla stan
The entrance is beneath Lejonbacken and in front of Norrbro.
GPS(WGS84): Lat N 59° 19′ 38″ Lon E 18° 4′ 15″

Tickets:
Tickets can be purchase at the south wing of the Outer courtyear, look for the sign "Biljetter & Information".
Tickets can also be purchased at the museums "The Treasury" and "Gustav III Museum fo Antiquities".

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The Tre Kronor Museum is highlighted with yellow in the top left part of the image above. If you put your mouse over the rooms you will get a more information about some of the items in the Museum.

The Royal Castle Tre Kronor, north wall.
The Model is made by Lars Agger and is a part of the museum