Which is the world’s largest permanent scale model of the Solar System?

The Sweden Solar System is the world’s largest permanent scale model of the Solar System. It is in the scale of 1:20 million and stretches 950 km across the country. The bodies represented include the Sun, the planets (and some of their moons), dwarf planets and other small bodies (comets, asteroids, trans-Neptunians, etc.). The Sun is represented by the Avicii Arena in Stockholm, the largest hemispherical building in the world. The planets, all appropriately scaled, are all around Stockholm and its suburbs.

So far, all eight official planets and dwarf-planet Pluto are in place, at distances from 2.9 km (Mercury) to 300 km (Pluto) from the Globe Northwards. Not limiting themselves to metallic spheres, Jupiter is presently a flower arrangement on a roundabout island outside Arlanda airport; Neptune is an acrylic sphere that shines with the planet’s iconic blue light at night. Comets like Halley and Swift-Tuttle have also been introduced to the system, though South-West of the Globe; foundations have been built for a representation of Termination Shock, the edge of the heliosphere, at the Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, some 950 km North of the Globe, above the Arctic Circle.

Of course, most tourists do not have the time to fling up and down the coast of the Baltic Sea looking for a lot of small, round things, so it is fortunate that most of this Solar System can be found close to Stockholm.

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