Stockholm's main attraction are its excellent museums. The star of them all is the Vasamuseet (Vasa Museum), which was build around a recovered flagship from 1628. Another jewel of the city is the Skansen, which is an open-air museum with over 150 traditional houses, staff in period costumes and zoo of nordic animals. Visiting the Royal Palace and its museums, the Royal Armory and the Royal Treasury, is another highlight. Nearby is the Museum of the Nobel Price Winners and the impressive city hall with its 106m tall tower. The Swedish Royal Family actually lives outside Stockholm in a branch of Drottningholm Palace. Several boats go there from the city hall marina. Quite an experience is the RIB tour (rigid inflatable boat). Those boats reach up to 45 knots and give you the feeling of "flying" through the Stockholm archipelago.
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