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Our special thanks to the Swedish Embassy in Moscow and personally to Lena Jonson
for the support of our project in Stockholm.
The Stockholm Metro, or Stockholms tunnelbana, is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden.
The first part of the metro was opened in 1950, when an underground light rail line opened in 1933 was converted to metro standard. This line ran south from Slussen station. Over the following years, this line was expanded to three lines going south from the inner city. In 1952 a line from the inner city to the western suburbs was opened. In 1957 the two line were connected via the central station and old town. This system consisting of three lines now forms the Green line. The Red line was opened in 1964 with two lines going from northeast to southwest. The final system, the Blue line, was opened in 1975 with two lines running northwest from the city center. The latest addition to the Green Line was carried out in 1994.
Stockholm's metro is well known for its decoration of the stations; it has been called the longest art gallery in the world. Several of the stations (especially on the Blue line) are left with the bedrock exposed, crude and unfinished, or as part of the decorations.
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