At the heart of the Haga parkmuseum, a large and very detailed wooden model of Stora Haga slott captures the scale of the building Gustav III had planned. You can lift parts of the model to see exact interior details rendered in miniature.
Through a small peephole on the side of the model and a system of mirrors, you can see into the palace dome as the architect Desprez had envisioned it. These perspectives are displayed alongside a massive enlargement of the park's general plan from 1781 on the far wall, while the opposite wall shows Desprez's vision of the park and the castle from the 1790s.
Construction of the pleasure palace was halted shortly after Gustav III was murdered and did not progress further than the foundations, which can still be seen in the park today. The museum, housed in the central copper pavilion of Haga Park, was reopened in the spring of 2003 with a completely new exhibition about the park and its buildings.
Entry to the Haga parkmuseum is free.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nik Frost
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