Month: July 2020

It’s almost time for Stockholm Pride 2020, which starts on Friday 31st July until Sunday 2nd August! This year, a lot of the celebrations are taking place online, but you can come and celebrate Pride all week here at Royal Djurgården. We’ve listed our tips below!

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BALTIC SEA SCIENCE CENTER

Did you know that the male pipefish carries and gives birth to the babies? During Pride Week (27th July-2nd August), you can learn all about love under the sea with a guided tour from one of the Science Center’s aquarists.

The tour is free and takes place at the aquarium in the Baltic Sea Science Center at 13:00 every day during Pride Week.

THE VIKING MUSEUM

Join The Viking Museum for an exciting, enlightening and funny tour through the Vikings’ attitude towards homosexuality and masculinity.

You can join a tour at 11:00, 13:00 or 15:00 on Thursday and Friday, and it is included in your entrance ticket.

ABBA THE MUSEUM

Celebrate love and go 2 for the price of 1! Bring a friend or a loved one and experience the story of ABBA.

The museum even has special Pride opening hours; it’s open until 18:30 on Saturday and from 11:00-16:30 on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Buy your tickets here.

CIRKUS & POP HOUSE

This Saturday (19:00-20:45), Cirkus and Pop House are hosting the Nordics’ first ever Drag dinner! Get ready for an evening filled with humour, dance, spex and mischief, as well as the world-famous ‘Heel Race’ competition (who really goes best in high heels?) The evening’s Drag Queens will be Becky, Miss Listerine and “Man who imitates women”.

Click here to book a table and be part of what’s sure to be a fabulous evening, darling!

STOCKHOLM PRIDE PARADE

This year is extra special because Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria is opening the celebrations – the first time a national monarch has officiated a Pride festival.

You can follow the Stockholm Pride Parade via the Stockholm Pride website and their social media channels. The parade is taking place on Saturday 1st August 2020, 12:00-14:00.

Djurgården’s attractions mark and celebrate Stockholm Pride (10.2,)

 

If you want to read more about our work with sustainability, visit sustainable.royaldjurgarden.se/en

This summer is going to be a little bit different to normal, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of fun and exciting things happening at Royal Djurgården. In fact, we think Djurgården is one of the biggest, greenest and coolest places to be!

Are you going to come and join us this summer? If so, here are our top 8 things to do when you come to visit:

1. Enjoy a truly unique outdoor sculpture exhibition

All the way from Park Avenue in NYC, now you can see Alice Aycock’s ‘Turbulences’ sculpture exhibition here at Royal Djurgården. It’s the first to be arranged by the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation, and Alice Aycock’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia!⁠ You can find the six sculptures at at Djurgårdsbrunn Bay near the Folke Bernadottes bridge.

2. Relax in the green oasis that is Rosendal’s Garden

One of our favourite places to enjoy the summer (or any season, come to that) is Rosendal’s Garden. As well as enjoying the garden, you can come here for a meal or traditional Swedish ‘fika’, and visit their farm shop and plant shop. And until mid-August, you can enjoy food from their wood fired oven and drinks from their garden bar at the Herbarium. You certainly won’t believe you’re in the midst of a capital city!

3. Celebrate 75 years of the world’s strongest girl at Junibacken

Pippi Longstocking is a female icon worldwide, and turns 75 this year. At Junibacken‘s new exhibition, ‘Topsy Turvy with Pippi’, you can be part of Pippi’s fun and mischievous world; lift Pippi’s horse, fly a plane, snoop around the sweet shop, climb up the lemonade tree – plus much more!⁠ We recommend booking your ticket in advance to guarantee admission, which you can do here.

4. Discover Djurgården on wheels 

Cycling is one of the best ways to get around and see the island – did you know that southern Djurgården is 10km all the way around? You can pick up free cycle maps from Royal Djurgården Visitor Center and hire bikes from the adjoining Sjöcaféet.

5. Marvel at Nordiska museet’s new entrance

…and relax in their outdoor living room.

Nordiska museet‘s newly-renovated backyard now hosts a Nordic café, and is surrounded by topiary linden trees, espaliered fruit trees and a walnut tree.

A visit inside the museum itself is also a must; after all, its main exhibition, The Arctic – While the Ice is Melting, was nominated for Exhibition of the Year.

6. Soak up the sun with some al fresco dining

Many of our lovely cafés and restaurants boast beautiful garden settings and waterside views, so you can enjoy amazing food with a view to match. Even some of our museums have their own outdoor seating area, like the Museum of Spirits with their Seaside Dock and Garden Patio, which is open exclusively during the summer.

And right now, we are running a special restaurant collaboration on Djurgården, where when you bring your receipt and voucher from one of 20 Djurgården restaurants to another, you get 10% off the bill. In case you needed an excuse to try even more delicious food and drink!

7. Take a tour of the island’s art exhibitions 

Art has long since been a part of Royal Djurgården (dating way back to 1905, in fact). But not all exhibitions are around for so long! This summer, choose between Ulrica Hydman Vallien at Liljevalchs, Hidden Treasures from the Thiel Gallery Collection at the Thiel Gallery and Silent Beauty – Nordic and East Asian Interaction at Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde. Take a look at our calendar to see all the exhibitions running at Royal Djurgården.

8. See beautiful Djurgården from the water

One of the best ways to explore Royal Djurgården is from the water, and you can rent a canoe, kayak or pedal boat from Sjöcaféet, which is just by the Djurgården bridge.

Fancy some sightseeing? Then why not test out Strömma’s Royal Canal Tour, which takes you along Djurgården’s beautiful and tranquil canal. And for something truly unique, Ocean Bus is an amphibious bus which lets you experience Stockholm from both land and water in one single vehicle.

On 11th July between 10:00 and 15:00, by the Maritime Museum, representatives from Djurgården’s attractions are taking action against littering with an underwater clean-up dive. We are working together with the Rena Botten foundation to take action against litter in our oceans. 

Just because we can’t see the rubbish, that doesn’t mean it’s not there. There is far too much rubbish in our oceans which we don’t see, but which affects our waters and the animals that live there.

“We all work together when it comes to sustainability at Djurgården, and a clean and tidy Djurgården is a matter of course. Last year we took it upon us to actively reduce littering. Through doing this underwater clean-up on Saturday, we want to show where so much rubbish ends up: in the Baltic Sea. It’s a small step, but still an important part of our journey to reduce littering. We hope that lots of people will come to the beach below the Maritime Museum to follow our work and see what we find”, says the Royal Djurgården Society’s CEO Camilla Zedendahl.

Saturday’s underwater clean-up dive will be our second together with Rena Botten, who have picked up tons of rubbish over the years. Together we will clean up Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, in the Museum Park below the Maritime Museum. There will be about ten of us taking part, including several representatives from Djurgården’s attractions.

The work towards a clean and tidy Djurgården is carried out by the Royal Djurgården Society, the Royal Djurgården Administration, the Maritime Museum, the Royal National City Park, Rena Botten and Håll Sverige Rent. Håll Sverige Rent (‘Keep Sweden Clean’) is a foundation on a mission to achieve ‘No littering’.

If you’d like to know more about the underwater clean-up dive, or even sign up, contact Camilla Zedendahl on camilla.zedendahl@royaldjurgarden.se or +46 (0)709 906973.

Would you like to know more about Rena Botten and/or get involved? Take a look at their Facebook page.

Djurgården works with other organisations to combat litter (17.17)

 

Through underwater clean-ups, Djurgården reduces the number of pollutants in the Baltic Sea (14.1)

 

If you want to read more about our work on sustainability, visit sustainable.royaldjurgarden.se/en