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An 1898 palace, walked through.

The first floor of the Hallwyl house in Stockholm, assembled from the museum's own scans and filmed as one slow camera move. Scroll, and the camera takes you in.

The Upper Vestibule

The main entrance. The Hallwyls and their guests climbed the stairs here past portraits of Walther von Hallwyl's ancestors, painted from the 16th to the 19th century.

From The Hallwyl Museum's description

II.

The Dining Room

Panelled in oak with details of black bog oak. Extended, the table could seat about thirty guests.

From The Hallwyl Museum's description

III.

The Great Drawing Room

The most sumptuous interior in the house: a late-Baroque setting for entertaining, music and dancing.

From The Hallwyl Museum's description

Upstairs, on the top floor IV.

The Picture Gallery

Wilhelmina von Hallwyl collected Dutch and Flemish painters of the Golden Age; the museum calls the collection a kind of encyclopedia of the period.

From The Hallwyl Museum's description

First floor

Interiors: The Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska museet), CC BY 4.0, via Sketchfab; floor assembly: Thomas Flynn, CC BY 4.0; modified by Built Better.

An 1898 palace, walked through.

The first floor of the Hallwyl house in Stockholm, assembled from the museum's own scans. Here as five held frames.

Interiors: The Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska museet), CC BY 4.0, via Sketchfab; floor assembly: Thomas Flynn, CC BY 4.0; modified by Built Better.

Thomas Flynn's assembly of the Hallwyl house's first-floor rooms, seen from above as an open model on the architect's plan — **The first floor**Ten state rooms around the courtyard, each one scanned by the museum.

The Upper Vestibule: marble floor with inlaid medallions, a carved double door and walls of ancestral portraits — **I. The Upper Vestibule**The main entrance, past portraits of Walther von Hallwyl's ancestors.

The Dining Room: oak panelling with black bog-oak details, a covered table and high leaded windows — **II. The Dining Room**Panelled in oak with black bog oak; the table could seat about thirty.

The Great Drawing Room: tapestries, gilt panelling, a grand piano and a carved double door under a stucco relief — **III. The Great Drawing Room**The most sumptuous interior in the house, made for music and dancing.

The Picture Gallery: a long top-lit room hung edge to edge with Dutch and Flemish paintings — **IV. The Picture Gallery**Wilhelmina von Hallwyl's Dutch and Flemish Golden Age collection.

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