For the price of a Stockholm Metro ticket you can see sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, inscriptions and reliefs from the 1950s through to the 2000s at most of the Metro stations. It is a ridiculously impressive 110 kilometres long, and it contains the works of hundreds of artists. It might not all be to your taste, but we think you'll appreciate the effort to appeal to your senses. And you have to wonder at the amount of work it took. For a very long time in Stockholm the powers that be had been trying to bring art to the people. With the building of the Stockholm Metro in the 1950s this was realized at T-Centralen and today you can see it in the tiling and reliefs on the walls of the station.

The art on show at 90 of the Stockholm Metro's 100 stations is hugely impressive because of its scale and variations and for the way that it interacts with the station environments. There are many fine example of this. Solna Centrum, for instance, stands out for its cavernous, bright red ceiling that seems to 'weigh down' on the platform. Meanwhile the walls of the station depict a spruce forest that is one kilometre long. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say, but waiting on a train at this station and others on the Metro is like no other.

Several hundred artists' works are on show at the Stockholm Metro and although you're not going to see all of them, our tip it to take one of the guided tours available for the price of a valid ticket where you can visit four or five stations with one of the Metro experts. Or if you're short of time, buy a ticket at T-Centralen and take the blue line to see the stations at Rådhuset and Fridhemsplan and then take the same line back to see the art Kungsträdgården station.