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Off Gamla Stan's eastern reaches, but not connected by bridge from the old town, the island of Skeppsholmen is home to an eclectic clutch of museums. Among them is the small but intriguing Moderna Museet (Tues-Thurs 11am-8pm, Fri-Sun 11am-6pm; 75kr; T-Kungstradgarden then bus #65), which houses one of the best collections of modern art in Europe, with work by many of the twentieth century's greatest artists: from Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Man Ray to Francis Bacon, Warhol and Lichtenstein. A steep climb up the nearby hill, to the northern tip of the island, leads to the Ostasiatiska Museet (Tues noon-8pm, Wed-Sun noon-5pm; 50kr; T-Kungstradgarden), whose Eastern antiquities display incredible craftsmanship - fifth-century Chinese tomb figures, delicate jade amulets, an awesome assembly of sixth-century Buddhas, Indian watercolours and gleaming bronze Krishnas. By the bridge to the island is the waterfront National Art Museum (Tues 11am-8pm, Wed-Sun 11am-5pm; 75kr; T-Kungstradgarden), another impressive collection of applied art - beds slept in by kings, cabinets used by queens, plates eaten off by nobles, alongside Art Nouveau coffee pots and vases and examples of Swedish furniture design. Upstairs there is a plethora of European sculpture, mesmerizing sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russian Orthodox icons, and, among a quality selection of paintings, Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis , one of his largest works; there are also minor works by other, later masters, notably Renoir. The gallery explores the development of the Swedish "oppositionists", who were inspired by the French Impressionists; the works of Carl Frederick Hill and Ernst Josephson's Portrait of a Journalist are particularly striking.
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