The August Strindberg Museum dedicated to the life and works of the Swedish writer, is located in the last apartment, where he lived (he was replaced 24 dwellings), in the house called "Blue Tower" (Drottninggatan 85) on the corner of Drottninggatan and Tegnergatan in Norrmalm. The Museum was opened in 1973 and belongs to the Society Strindberg.

Strindberg moved into the house in 1908 and lived there until his death in 1912. The house was built in 1907 and had all the modern amenities: Central heating, Elevator, sewer. However, in the apartment of the writer, there was no food, and because he rented his house from a family-run hotel Faulkner, the food he brought from there. When the hotel closed, Strindberg was forced to order a meal in a nearby restaurant. The Museum consists of an apartment and the library of the writer, as well as venues for temporary exhibitions. Wallpaper and other decorations have been reconstructed in accordance with how the apartment looked in a time when Strindberg lived there, but furniture and other interior parts are original.

The foyer of his apartment Strindberg cheap printed pasted Wallpaper with romantic motifs. A picture painted with watercolors, is a copy of the picture of Oscar Bjorcks, which hangs in the lobby of the Royal dramatic theatre. Strindberg furnished her apartment as a decoration of their own plays. For example, the color scheme dining room is the bright yellow, green and red colors. There are two small bust of Goethe and Schiller, and above the piano hangs a mask of Beethoven, his favorite composer. Above the sofa hangs a photo of his daughter Anne-Marie.

When Strindberg first moved to the Blue Tower, the apartment was no place for his large library, and he donated his books to the pawnshop. In 1909, Strindberg began to rent an apartment which he had furnished in the style of high modernism. A year later he bought his library from a pawn shop and moved it into this room. Library Strindberg is primarily a research library, containing 6800 books on history, language, astronomy, chemistry and other Sciences, as well as the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Swedenborg and Balzac.

On the sixtieth anniversary (January 22, 1909), and then again, in his sixty-third birthday in 1912, Strindberg was awarded the Grand torchlight procession to his fans. In a letter to his friend Richard Berg, Strindberg wrote that due to illness he would not be able to greet the crowd in person, instead he put a beautiful red electric lamp so that the crowd saw his balcony. However, to celebrate Strindberg appeared with his daughter Anne-Marie on the balcony under the loud applause of the crowd.

August Strindberg died in his sleep after a prolonged illness on may 14, 1912.