Enquiries:
Tel. +46 8 411 53 54
Fax +46 8 411 01 41
Director:
Agneta Lalander
Open:
1.9-31.5.1996: Tue 11-19, Wed-Fri 11-16, Sat-Sun 12-16
1.6-31.8 Tue-Fri 11-16, Sat-Sun 12-16.
Closed: Mondays and 1.5, 16.5, 25-27.5, 21-22.6
At the summit of Drottninggatan in Stockholm is a house known as the Blue Tower where August Strindberg spent the last four years of his life from 1908 until 1912. The apartment, consisting of three rooms, is the only one of Strindberg's over 25 in Stockholm which has been preserved in its original state. The house was built in 1907, with all modern comforts: central heating, a shower, electricity, telephones and an elevator. When Strindberg moved into the building, he was a 59-year-old author of world fame, whose plays had been enormously successful. He wrote some twenty works while living in the Blue Tower. These included texts for his own theatre (Intima Teatern on Norra Bantorget). His articles published in Aftontidningen and Socialdemokraten sparked the so-called Strindberg feud which raged in the Swedish press in 1910 and 1911.
On his 63rd birthday on January 22, 1912, Strindberg was honoured with a public demonstration including a torchlight procession. In this connection, he was awarded the so-called Anti-Nobel Prize, made possible by a large public collection of funds. The prize was mainly a recognition from the Swedish workers' movement to protest the fact that Strindberg had not been awarded the Nobel Prize by the conservative Academy of Sweden.
Today Strindberg's home and his library of 3,000 works are the core of the Strindberg Museum. There are also exhibitions presenting various aspects of Strindberg's life, as author, photographer, painter and theatre man. The museum arranges lectures, temporary exhibitions and other events.
Special exhibitions:
Until 24.5.1996 Lena Cronqvist, A Dream play
Summer 1996: Inferno - From Crisis to Novel.
1997: Art Noir - Camera Work by Edward Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg and August Strindberg.