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Museums

Stockholm is one of the most crowded museum-towns in the world with some 70 museums, visited by over 9 million people per year.[citation needed]

The most renowned national museum is the Nationalmuseum,[citation needed] with Sweden's largest collection of art: 16,000 paintings and 30,000 objects of art handicraft. The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

The most popular spectator sports are football and ice hockey. The three most popular football teams are AIK, Hammarby IF and Djurgårdens IF. In ice hockey, Stockholm's highest rated team is Djurgårdens IF, in football Djurgårdens IF have been the most successful team during this decade. In handball the highest rated team is Hammarby.

Historically, the city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics. From those days stem the Stockholms Olympiastadion which has since hosted numerous sports events, notably football and athletics. Stadion is the previous home arena of AIK and is the current home arena of Djurgårdens IF. For the ice hockey teams, the home arena is Stockholm Globe Arena, one of the largest spherical building in the world, but it is also hosting concerts and other events.

Stockholm also hosted all but one of the Nordic Games, a winter multi-sport event that predated the Winter Olympics.

Stockholm has an extensive public transport system. It consists of the Stockholm Metro (Tunnelbana); three regional/suburban rail systems: commuter rail (pendeltåg), Roslagsbanan, and Saltsjöbanan; three light rail systems: Nockebybanan, Lidingöbanan, and Tvärbanan; and a large number of bus lines.

Stockholm Metro, Hötorget Station

All the land-based public transport in Stockholm County, except the airport buses/trains, are organised by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), with the operation and maintenance of the public transport services delegated to several contractors, such as Connex who operate the metro and regional/suburban railways except for the commuter rail. The archipelago boat traffic is handled by Waxholmsbolaget.

SL has a common ticket system in the entire Stockholm County, which allows for easy travel between different modes of transport. The tickets are of two main types, single ticket and travel cards, both allowing for unlimited travel with SL in the entire Stockholm County for the duration of the ticket validity. Starting April 1st, 2007, a new zone system(A,B,C) and price system applies for single tickets. Single tickets are now available in forms of cash ticket, individual unit pre-paid tickets, pre-paid ticket slips of 10, sms-ticket and machine ticket. Cash tickets bought at the point of travel are the most expensive and pre-paid tickets slips of 10 are the cheapest. A single ticket is valid for one hour. The duration of the travel card validity depends on the exact type, they are available from 24 hours up to a year. A 30-day card costs 620 SEK (66 EUR; 88 USD). Tickets of all these types are available with reduced price for persons under 20 and over 65 years old

Tallink: www.tallink.se Riga, Tallin, Helsingfors, Mariehamn, Åbo

Tallink travel from Frihamnen and Värtahamnen, bus #1.

Vikingline: www.vikingline.se

International and domestic:
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport is the primary airport for the region. Serves as a hub for Scandinavian Airlines.
Stockholm-Bromma Airport
Only international:
Stockholm-Skavsta Airport
Stockholm-Västerås Airport

Flygbussarna bus lines run to and from central Stockholm from all the airports, and the Arlanda Express airport rail link runs between Arlanda Airport and Stockholm.

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Inter-City Trains

The Stockholm Central Station has train connections to many Swedish towns, Oslo and to Copenhagen. The popular X2000-service to Gothenburg takes three hours. Most of the trains are run by SJ AB.

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