Stockholms läns museum

Name

Stockholms läns museum

Legal name

Stiftelsen Stockholms läns museum

Website

https://stockholmslansmuseum.se

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Heritage Services

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Historical Sites (712120), Libraries and Archives (51921)

akta.pro primary industry

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI), History Museums (THAJADAB), Libraries, Archives & Special Collections (BPAGAHAF)

Keywords

• Cultural heritage services
• Digital museum platform
• Public art curation
• Historical education resources
• Regional museum collections

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stockholms läns museum is a publicly funded digital museum that preserves, curates, and makes accessible the cultural heritage, cultural environments, and art of Stockholm County. Its core offering is a unified digital platform with digital exhibitions, an interactive visitor destination map, a public art catalog, building heritage information, a contemporary image contribution archive, and a free school education portal (Länskällan) aligned with the Swedish curriculum.

Product overview

Stockholms läns museum operates as a digital museum with a unified web platform (stockholmslansmuseum.se) that serves as the primary digital museum building. The core product is complemented by specialized modules including Besöksmålskartan (interactive visitor destination map), Tidslinjen (interactive timeline exhibition), and Länskällan (educational portal for schools). Additional offerings include the Samtidsbild contemporary image collection, Offentlig konst public art catalog, Byggnadswebben building heritage portal, Guide-appar mobile guide apps, and Kalendarium event calendar. The museum also provides collections search functionality through digitaltmuseum.se integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Länskällan: A free educational platform for elementary school students covering local history in Stockholm County, featuring articles, quizzes, teacher materials, and archive materials.
• Tidslinjen
• Besöksmålskartan
• Samtidsbild

Products and services

• Stockholms läns museum web platform Main digital museum platform offering digital exhibitions, visitor destination maps, collections search, and educational resources for the general public of Stockholm County.
• Besöksmålskartan (Visitor Destination Map) Interactive map covering 174 visiting destinations including architecture, castles, ruins, villages, ancient remains, military history, industrial history, cultural heritage sites, coast and archipelago, museums, religious buildings, and world heritage sites across Stockholm County.
• Tidslinjen (Timeline Exhibition) Interactive digital exhibition covering the history of Stockholm County from the Ice Age to AI, designed to be fun, interactive, and educational for the general public.
• Länskällan (County Source Portal) Free digital educational platform for upper primary school students (grades 7-9) featuring themes such as Industrialisering and Aktivism, articles, quizzes, archival materials, and teacher resources aligned with the Swedish Lgr22 curriculum. Sourced from municipal archives, Regionarkivet, and 121 heritage associations.
• Guide-appar (Mobile Guide Apps) Mobile guide applications and audio guides allowing users to discover public art and history at cultural heritage sites throughout Stockholm County.
• Samtidsbild (Contemporary Image Archive) Digital platform allowing citizens to upload contemporary images to build a collective cultural heritage archive of the present day, viewable alongside others' contributions.
• Offentlig konst (Public Art Catalog) Digital catalog of 245 public art works across Stockholm County, searchable and viewable on an interactive map.
• Byggnadswebben (Building Heritage Portal) Web portal providing information on architecture styles, building conservation (byggnadsvård), and articles on the built heritage of Stockholm County.
• Sök i samlingarna (Collections Search) Searchable database providing access to the museum's collections through digitaltmuseum.se.
• Kalendarium (Events Calendar) Calendar of upcoming and past events, exhibitions, and activities organized by the museum, listing 9 current activities at time of review.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ekerö kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEkerö kommun contributes archival materials from the municipal archive to the Länskällan educational platform. The archive contains administrative materials from the current municipality and predecessor municipalities dating from approximately 1862.
• Huddinge kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHuddinge kommun, the largest municipality in the county after Stockholm city (114,000+ inhabitants), contributes local history materials to Länskällan.
• Nacka kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNacka kommun contributes archival materials from Nacka lokalhistoriska arkiv, located at Dieselverkstaden in Sickla. The archive holds approximately 60,000 images from Nacka's history and contemporary period, plus documents including press clippings, property records, films, and drawings.
• Norrtälje kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorrtälje kommun contributes source materials from Pytagoras industrimuseum and Skebo bruksmuseum to Länskällan. Norrtälje is the northernmost and largest municipality in Stockholm County by area.
• Nynäshamns kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNynäshamns kommun contributes archival materials from Nynäshamns bild- och folkrörelsearkiv (image and movement archive), part of Nynäshamn library. Content includes photographs from the municipal image archive and archival records from older associations.
• Regionarkivet i Region StockholmcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegionarkivet preserves and stores long-term information from Region Stockholm (formerly Stockholms läns landsting). It contributes archival materials to Länskällan and is part of the Kulturförvaltningen within Region Stockholm.
• Sigtuna kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSigtuna kommun is represented in Länskällan through Sigtuna Museum & Art, which provides knowledge from its exhibitions, collections, and archives, primarily archaeological artifacts as well as modern history through collected stories, photo collections, and regional art.
• Stockholms läns hembygdsförbundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStockholms läns hembygdsförbund is a umbrella organization for the county's heritage movement with 121 member associations. It contributes local history content to Länskällan and collaborates with the museum, municipalities, and the County Heritage Federation on the platform.
• Tyresö kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTyresö kommun contributes digitized materials from the Tyresö kommunarkiv and the new Tyresöarkivet (established 2021), plus materials from Tyresö hembygdsförening, to Länskällan.
• Täby kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTäby kommun contributes archival materials from the municipal archive and Täby hembygdsförening to Länskällan. Täby has approximately 75,000 inhabitants.
• Upplands-Bro kommuncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUpplands-Bro kommun contributes archival materials from the municipality's image archive to Länskällan.
• Företagskällan (Centrum för Näringslivshistoria)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFöretagskällan is a cross-link from Länskällan, offering extensive economic history educational material for schools in the form of ready-made lesson proposals and plans, linked to the Gy11 curriculum, developed by Centrum för Näringslivshistoria and Förening Företagens historia in Uppsala.
• StockholmskällanminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStockholmskällan is identified as an important source for local history, containing more than 30,000 historical source materials from collections held by museums, archives, and libraries in Stockholm. It is referenced as a complementary resource alongside Länskällan.
• Kulturrådet (Swedish Arts Council)coreOthersKulturrådet provides state-level financing to Stockholms läns museum as part of the national county museum system. The museum receives joint regional financing from Region Stockholm and state financing from Kulturrådet.
• Övriga länsmuseer i Sverige (Other county museums in Sweden)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTogether with all other county museums (länsmuseer) in Sweden, Stockholms läns museum forms the largest museum in the country, united by a shared mission around cultural history, cultural environment, and art.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• DigitaltMuseum: Shared Swedish digital-museum platform (managed by KulturIT) through which Stockholms läns museum exposes its searchable collections. Comparable as the underlying digital collections infrastructure the museum relies on, and as a sector-wide platform shared with peer museums.
• Riksantikvarieämbetet: Swedish National Heritage Board — government agency overseeing cultural heritage and cultural environment policy in Sweden. Comparable as a sector overseer and policy actor that shapes the regulatory and funding environment in which Stockholms läns museum operates.

Broad incumbents

• Nordiska museet: Sweden's national museum of cultural history and folklife, based in Stockholm. Directly comparable as a large-scale Swedish cultural-history institution serving the public with collections, exhibitions, and educational programming, but operating at national rather than regional scope.
• Europeana: EU-wide digital cultural-heritage platform aggregating collections from European museums and archives. Comparable as a digital-first heritage aggregation and access layer, though operating at pan-European scale rather than regional.
• Statens historiska museum: Sweden's national history museum. Comparable as a publicly funded Swedish institution curating historical artifacts and collections for public education and interpretation, but with a national rather than regional remit and a physical flagship venue.

Direct peers

• Östergötlands museum: County museum for Östergötland within the Swedish länsmuseum system. Comparable in scope, governance, and mission to Stockholms läns museum, operating across cultural history, cultural environments, and art for its region.
• Upplandsmuseet: Uppsala county museum and a peer within Sweden's county-museum framework. Comparable mandate covering regional cultural heritage and public access, with shared public funding structure and similar target audiences.
• Värmlands museum: County museum (länsmuseum) for Värmland under the same national county-museum framework as Stockholms läns museum. Direct peer in mandate, funding structure, and role covering cultural history, cultural environments, and art for its region.
• Kalmar läns museum: County museum for Kalmar, another länsmuseum with a comparable regional mandate covering cultural history, environments, and art. Direct institutional peer within Sweden's nationwide county-museum network.
• Regionmuseet i Skåne: Regional museum for Skåne, also part of Sweden's county-museum system. Closely comparable institutional model with regional public funding and a mandate spanning cultural history, cultural environments, and art across the region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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