City Faces

Hildur Larsson half-lies across a polar bear, posed like an odalisque in Frans G Klemming's studio at Hamngatan 38. She married the wholesaler Rikard Slöör in 1899, at 18. Many of the faces around her had no name until this project.

The museum holds 400,000 studio portraits from 1860 to 1930: maids, wholesalers, factory workers, sailors. Researchers from the museum, the City Archives and Stockholm and Uppsala universities digitised 40,000 of them and used purpose-built facial recognition to match faces to the Rotemansarkivet, the city's old population register. The show is what came out: who these people were, and how the same camera served both self-presentation and control. Somewhere in here, says producer Anna Seidevall Byström, you might find your historical twin.

Read the captions, because each portrait comes with the life the researchers traced. It's free, on floor 0, with its own step-free entrance by lift ramp (225 kg max). Wednesdays run to 20:00 outside the Christmas period, and the museum runs public guided tours.