When electricity came to Stockholm – the revolution of light in everyday life

Stockholm got its first electric lighting as early as the 1880s. At Brunkebergsverket, the city's first power plant, electricity production began in 1892. It was located on Tulegatan – in the middle of what was then called the cradle of "the electric miracle."

Initially, it was not ordinary households that benefited from the new technology, but the city's theaters, banks, department stores and factories. Lighting an electric light bulb was something exclusive – a symbol of optimism and modernity.

The arrival of electricity changed not only how we saw, but how we lived.
Night turned to dusk, dusk to activity. Shops started having late hours, cinemas opened their doors, and Stockholm began to shine – literally.

In the 1920s, electricity was a given in urban life, but in the countryside it would take several more decades. There, the kerosene lamp lived on well into the 1950s.