A Tour for the Millenium

August 17, 2010 at 8:00 am · Filed under international travel, sweden, tourism, travel and tagged: millenium novels, millenium tour, stieg larsson, travel writing

By Linda Tancs

Imagine what a best-selling series of novels set in a popular European city can do for tourism.  In Stockholm, they’ve seized the day with the Millenium tour, an offering by the Stockholm City Museum celebrating the late novelist Stieg Larsson’s three Millennium blockbuster bestsellers about journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.  Now through September, the museum is offering a summertime tour around the central island of Södermalm, where the novels’ main characters lived and worked.  Starting at Bellmansgatan (nearest Metro:  Slussen or Mariatorget), the two-hour tour includes the apartment buildings of the lead characters as well as a view here or there of other views like Stockholm City Hall.  Do take some time to tour the museum as well, the city’s cultural history authority housed in a 17th century palace.

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