Part of Stockholm’s Creative Economy lies Underneath the City

Painted blue vines climbing up a white cave in the T-Centralen station (Dye, 2016).

The city of Stockholm, Sweden is often considered a giant museum due to the vastness of its art scene throughout the city. Mostly integrated within architecture and public art, Stockholm is a lively city that demonstrates its adventurousness through its art scene. 

Underneath the capital of Sweden, there is an intricate system of train lines with 100 metro stations. Over 90 of those 100 metro stations have been decorated with art — spanning from paintings, installations, mosaics, and sculptures — since the 1950s by over 150 artists (Dye, 2016). Tourists from across the world visit Stockholm to see these unique and famous works of public art, as they have been the subjects of photography for decades (Dye, 2016). These metro stations are on the lists of almost every tourist attraction site on the web, demonstrating that it is likely that this public art contributes to the city’s overall creative economy.