THE BUILDING

Since 1979 the Stockholm Music Museum is located in the former Crown Bakery, in the same block as the Court Stables, beside the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
The Crown Bakery dates from the 17th. Century, and is Stockholm’s oldest industrial building.
This building has a long and eventful history and has through the centuries performed a number of functions: bakery, weapon depot, spirits store.
Yet almost all the time – from the 1640’s to 1958 – it has been a bakery for the armed forces in Stockholm. It even boasted mobile ovens which could be used during field exercises.
In 1945 the building was ravaged by a fire which destroyed its upper floors in the northern part – where the Concert Hall is now located.