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Sweden's long and complicated affair with alcohol is the theme of the Spritmuseum, the Museum of Spirits, set in a pair of eighteenth-century former naval buildings on the Djurgarden waterfront in Stockholm. The museum examines how drink has shaped, and been shaped by, the life of the nation, from the production of spirits and the customs of the festive table to the heavy taxation, the powerful temperance movement and the state monopoly on alcohol sales that remains a distinctive feature of Swe...