Skokloster Castle

Skokloster Castle
Facade facing west, July 2018
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General information
Architectural styleBaroque
Town or cityHåbo Municipality
CountrySweden
Coordinates59°42′13.68″N 17°37′9.88″E / 59.7038000°N 17.6194111°E / 59.7038000; 17.6194111
Construction started1654
Completed1676 (unfinished)

Skokloster Castle (Swedish: Skoklosters slott) is a Swedish Baroque castle built between 1654 and 1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, located on a peninsula of Lake Mälaren between Stockholm and Uppsala. It became a state museum in the 1970s and displays collections of paintings, furniture, textiles and tableware as well as books and weapons that amount to 20,000 items.[1]

  1. ^ Bergström 2001, p. 36.

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