Nationalmuseum

Friedrich August Stüler, the German architect behind Berlin's Neues Museum, designed Stockholm's Nationalmuseum in a style drawing on both Florentine and Venetian Renaissance architecture, reflecting the waterside setting the two cities share. Built between 1844 and 1866, the museum opened to the public on 15 June 1866 and doubled as one of the venue buildings for that year's General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm. Stüler believed the building itself should function as a work of art in dialogue with the collection inside it, rather than a neutral container for other people's paintings.