Sweden · Restored
Tyresö Palace
Tyresö Palace is a 17th-century Swedish palace near Stockholm, completed in 1636 and today run as a museum. The building has a symmetrical three-part façade with prominent end towers and sits within extensive landscape gardens that were reworked as an English-style park in the 18th century.
First raised
1633
Its prime
1636
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1636
What Tyresö Palace looked like in its prime.
Wide, low three-part masonry palace with pale yellow plastered façades and a broad central block flanked by two taller square towers; each tower is topped by a copper-clad, bulbous spire and slender pinnacles. Windows are regularly spaced rectangular openings; roofs are dark, shallow-pitched and clad in tile or slate. A sculpted, red-stone main portal sits in the centre and the palace opens directly onto a trimmed lawn and large naturalistic landscape gardens.
Its story
The story of Tyresö Palace.
Construction of Tyresö Palace began in the 1620s and was completed in 1636 by Gabriel Oxenstierna, Lord High Steward of Sweden, who also built the nearby Tyresö Church, inaugurated with his own burial in 1641. In 1648 the palace was inherited by Maria Sofia De la Gardie, who had married his nephew Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna; she resided at Tyresö, managing her estates around the Baltic Sea, until 1694.
The writer Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna lived at the palace between 1699 and 1737. In the 1770s the palace was modernised and the first English garden in Sweden was created, planned by the garden architect Fredrik Magnus Piper — a mixture of English park, Swedish floral meadow and fairy-tale imagery, with the ancient forest as its ultimate inspiration. The extensive, apparently natural landscape gardens still exist.
The papal Marquis Claes Lagergren purchased Tyresö in 1892 and, assisted by the architect Isak Gustaf Clason, rebuilt it in a national romantic style inspired by original 17th-century drawings, wanting the palace kept as a living document of Swedish history. On his death in 1930 he left it to the Nordic Museum, which owns the palace today and opens it for guided tours during the summer.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1636.
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Clans who held Tyresö Palace.
The families that held Tyresö Palace for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Oxenstierna
Built by Gabriel Oxenstierna, Lord High Steward of Sweden, completed in 1636.
De la Gardie
Maria Sofia De la Gardie inherited the palace in 1648 and managed her Baltic estates from it until 1694.
Lagergren
Bought by the papal Marquis Claes Lagergren in 1892; left to the Nordic Museum on his death in 1930.
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