Garden Days at Skansen

In the Rose garden there are more than 100 speices of roses. Older and new ones is growing side by side. Learn more about them and get other tips for the upcoming garden season.

Skansen’s first herb garden was established as early as 1892. Welcome to explore the herbs and learn more about brewing tea using them.

Learn more about the plants in a kitchen garden from the 18th century. Here you can find, herbs, flowers, berry bushes, potatoes and different fruit trees. Younger visitors can learn how to plant a potato.

Explore a city garden as it looked like in the 1840’s. We will show you what plants where common back then and younger visitors can plant a bean.

1725 the King urged all citizens to grow tobacco. Soon small back yards where used to grow it. At the Tanner’s yard you can find one of our tobacco cultivations.

At Skansen there are two Allotment huts with gardens from the 1920’s and 1940’s On site you can chat with persons who actually own one themselves.

At the Bollnäs square you will find exhibitors, you can buy the Skansen geranium, cheramics, tools and other things needed for the upcoming gardening season.

Take part of 18th century cooking. Food is prepared with herbs and other things from the big garden. Learn how the servants lived in small rooms behind the kitchen.

Make your own seed bombs or just plant a seed in a paper pot you just made yourself. At the site you can also build your own nesting box.

Try carving, broom making, knot making and various other crafts. Knitters are also available to teach you complicated ways to knit.