Experience nature and culture at Skansen

The printer´s family lived in three rooms at the back of the printing office - a kitchen, drawing room and living room. The family ate and conducted their daily activities in the drawing room - where they also worked making the newspaper What´s New?.

As a member, you get free entry to Skansen on certain days each year. The Coop card also gives you a discount in Skansen's shops all year round.

Visit the stable and learn something new about our horses.

Welcome to a loving and exploratory spring evening at Skansen during the Culture Night Stockholm on April 20! Free entry all evening.

Welcome to two days filled with music, games and other fun activities when Astrid Lindgren's World comes to Skansen on May 11-12!

The Sami is one indigenous people and are the only ones living in Europe. 370 milion people in 90 countries around the world are indigenous and make out 5% of the global population.

Discover Stockholm’s greatest Midsummer celebrations! At Skansen, Midsummer lasts for three days from morning to late night.

Come and discover the lush world of gardens! For three weekends in May, Skogaholm Manor will be transformed into a place for inspiration, knowledge and pleasure ahead of the upcoming gardening season.

Celebrate Walpurgis at Skansen with activities all day and night.

The dancers are dressed in National costumes from different parts of Sweden and the music is played by the Skansen Folk musicians.

In Back Mats cottage there is always much to do. Sometimes we cook or bake inside the cottage, other days we do the cleaning outdoors.

At the Finn Settlement most things were produced by hand. Here you can try out how to make new yarn out of old woolen textiles.

The Åkesson family lived at the Skåne Farmstead between 1912 and 1925. Come and help them with today's chores.

The eastern wing contains the kitchen which was housed in a separate building because of the risk of fire. And with the kitchen at a distance the manor was not disturbed. Food was prepared on the iron range and there was special provision for dishes

​The Kyrkhult farmhouse (Kyrkhultsstugan) from Blekinge was one of the first houses Artur Hazelius moved to Skansen.

The Old Shop (Kryddboden) on the left as you enter displays a black brush, originally a gun brush, which was the traditional sign of grocers.