Month: May 2021

On Thursday 27 May at 10 AM, ABBA The Museum will open to visitors again – after being closed since November last year !

– After being closed for almost 200 days we are now getting ready to reopen and we are really looking forward to welcoming visitors again. We can´t wait to be able to exceed our visitors’ expectations and let them enjoy the music, the magic and the memories of ABBA, to have them once again Walk In and Dance Out. We will open in a responsible way and have adapted the museum, due to the pandemic. A visit to ABBA The Museum is safe and secure for both our visitors and our staff, says Caroline Fagerlind, Museum Director ABBA The Museum.

ABBA The Museum is an interactive museum where you can virtually try on ABBA’s costumes, sing, play, mix original music and become the fifth member of ABBA by performing on the museums large stage together with Björn, Benny, Frida and Agnetha.

On an iPad, you can choose different instruments from the studio and listen to how they sound on a recording when all the other instruments have been removed. This is just a fraction of all the fun things you will experience at the museum.

A good news is that the museum has prolonged their popular temporary exhibition MAMMA MIA! Behind The Movie Magic, an exhibition that takes the visitors behind the scenes of movie making, until December this year.

ABBA The Museum have a new ticketing system that gives visitors the possibility to cancel their tickets, by themselves, up to 24 hours before their visit, to encourage visitors to stay home if they have any symptoms. To ensure the maximum visitors allowed and keep an even flow in the exhibition they will use slot-times and only allow pre-booked tickets online.

Read more about ABBA The Museum’s opening and pre-book your tickets here.

Here at Royal Djurgården we have been welcoming guests for over 400 years and it is our responsibility to ensure that we can welcome guests for at least another 400 years.

For this reason, Royal Djurgården’s attractions have been working together for the long-term sustainable development for several years now. With over 15 million visitors in a normal year, we have the opportunity to make an impact by coming up with new ways of working and acting as a leading example for sustainable destinations in Sweden. Then as the world stopped in spring 2020, the way of working at Royal Djurgården completely changed.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the world tourism industry hard. Royal Djurgården lost more than three quarters of their visitors in one go. Once we realised the extent of the impact, we asked ourselves the question: How can we keep our sustainability work going during the pandemic? The answer: we needed a knowledge bank to inspire one another and others.

In April this year, our new website sustainable.royaldjurgarden.se was launched. The website serves as a knowledge bank to inspire one other and others to keep up their sustainability work in these tough times.

“We want to tell you about what we do, why we do it, and what drives us in an accessible way. This was why we asked ABBAs Björn Ulvaeus, who is the owner of ABBA The Museum and more at Royal Djurgården, if he wanted to be Royal Djurgården’s voice in a collaborative sustainability film for the new website. We were very pleased when he said yes and helped us find the right words”, says Camilla Zedendahl, CEO of the Royal Djurgården Society.

You can see the film on the new sustainability website sustainable.royaldjurgarden.se.

As Björn Ulvaeus says in the film,

“You could say that Royal Djurgården itself is a symbol of sustainability because of our ambition to connect Swedish cultural heritage with modern environmental thinking”.

We are so happy that more and more museums are starting to open up here at Royal Djurgården again. Next up is the National Maritime Museum and the Vasa Museum. Followed by ABBA The Museum and the Amusement Park Gröna Lund.

Since October 30 last year, the National Maritime Museum has only offered digital visits. But from May 18, the museum will reopen and welcomes visitors again. A new exhibition, The Collectors, has taken place inside the museum while it has been closed. The Collectors is about people who have passionately collected and systematised objects, pictures and facts about ships, boats, and shipping. In order to make your visit as safe and secure as possible the museum has taken several precautions. The number of visitors allowed into the museum will be restricted. The café will also be opend but with limited seats. Find out more about the National Maritime Museum’s opening here.

The Vasa Museum is also getting ready to reopen after being closed for 200 days. The museum opens its doors to visitors on Wednesday May 19 with security – and joy – in focus.

250 visitors will be allowed inside the museum at the same time. Each visitor will have plenty of space and it will be easy to keep distance from others. At the same time, it is possible to get close to the ship and get a magnificent experience of Vasa. The staff will be back and have answers to all your questions and to help out. They will unfortunately not hold any guided tours to avoid crowding. Audio guides in many different languages are available for free download and can be listened to on your own smart phone or tablet. The museum, the museum shop and the Vasa museum’s restaurant will be open every day of the week. Find out more about the Vasa Museum’s opening here.

On May 27 it is also time for ABBA The Museum to opens its doors to visitors again, after being closed since November last year. From the opening date, the museum will be open Thursdays to Sundays, with the ambition to extend the opening days in July. Find out more here.

Gröna Lund Amusement Park will also finally open on 2 June. Before you visit Gröna Lund this year, you will need to pre-book tickets. When you buy your ticket online, you first choose a visit date and then if you want to arrive in the morning or afternoon. Super easy! And the best thing about that, with fewer guests, they can offer shorter queues and larger areas. Yay! Find out more information here. 

The Museum of Ethnography, Junibacken, Nordiska museet, Skansen, The Skansen Aquarium, Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde, the Museum of Spirits, Tekniska museet, the Thiel Gallery and Rosendal’s Garden are also open and welcomes you. And don’t worry about going hungry; almost all of Djurgården’s restaurants are open as well.