Month: October 2021

Our best Christmas buffet tips 2021  

At Royal Djurgården, Christmas is always close to the heart, which means we turn our island into real Christmas paradise. Food and drinks are a huge part of the Christmas celebration and we are getting ready to offer all our visitors a proper Christmas buffet experience.

In Sweden we love our Christmas buffet – or “Julbord” as we call it. A Julbord is filled with an abundance of all the food we love and we serve it as a “Smörgårdsbord” – simply a buffet.  Common courses on the Christmas buffet is herring, meatballs, Jansson’s temptation and Christmas ham. Today vegetarian dishes have made their way up on the Julbord side by side with the more traditional. 

Here are our best Christmas buffets tips! 

Hasselbacken 

At Hasselbacken’s neo-traditional Christmas buffet there is something for everyone, young and old. They offer all the classics of Christmas, their popular twist on the Hasselback potatoes and a dignified dessert table that satisfies both gastronomy and gourmand. The Christmas buffet also offers delicious vegetarian options and surprises for all senses. 

Date: from December 2, to Christmas Eve.  

Junibacken 

A wonderful Christmas buffet experience in a playful environment with a view over Ladugårdviken. Before you get a taste of the delicious Christmas buffet, you can mingle with friends, meet people at Sagotorget or take a ride in Sagotåget and listen to Astrid Lindgren’s stories to put you in a cozy mood.

Astrid Lindgren’s excellence as a writer is known the world over. No Swedish author has been translated into as many languages, and many of us know and love her most famous character Pippi Longstocking.

Oaxen Slip 

Oaxen Slip has a fantastic Christmas menu which is cooked with with Nordic commodities from local producers. This year a Classic December Menu is also offered with Oaxen classics such as steak tartar, grilled char and almond cake.  

The National Museum of Technology (Tekniska museet) and Tekniska by Pontus 

A Christmas buffet which gets served in four rounds at the table in the National Museum of Technology’s KRAV-certified restaurant. They serve classic Christmas food with a small twist, as well as modern vegetarian courses. You can choose between three package deals: a base package and two exclusive packages where you can experience even more of the museum’s exhibitions.  

Date: 29/11 – 17/12 

Ulla Winbladh 

Here it is Christmas Eve every day of the week and the atmosphere is characterized by a fragrant spruce, strengthened linen napkins and a thousand Christmas lights. A traditional Christmas buffet, but at the same time a brilliant Christmas buffet for vegans! Ulla Winbladh has expanded the range with more vegetarian and vegan dishes. 

Date: 18/11 – 23/12 

Tyrol  

Tyrol is one of Sweden’s largest Christmas buffets. The Christmas table originates from the nature of Lapland. They serve wild delights mixed with Christmas food made from Vilhelmina ingredients from which Tyrol suppliers come. Char from Lake Magoma, cloudberries Almost lake ants and reindeer from local Sami villages are usually popular on the Christmas table. 

Would you rather enjoy all this food at home? Tyrol continues last year’s success Tyrol’s Wild Christmas Box. You can pick up your Wild Christmas Box or have it delivered home to avoid the stress of Christmas and let Tyrol’s amazing chefs do the work for you.    

Date: 22/11 – 26/12 

Villa Godthem 

A classic Christmas buffet enjoyed in the old and beautiful Schwieser-style wholesaler villa from the 18th century. Inside Villa Godthem, the fire burns, the smell of mulled wine spreads and a classic Swedish Christmas buffet is served. The food served is carefully prepared according to classic recipes and traditional commodities. 

Date: 25/11 – 26/12  

Spritmuseum 

Christmas is the most beloved holiday at Spritmuseum (the Museum of Spirits). They season the schnapps and pick out what they pickled and juiced from the summer harvest. They offer a classic Christmas buffet experience where they put the nub, herring and pig on the table. All ingredients come from their own garden or local producers. For those who are not in the mood for the nub or Christmas ham, non-alcoholic beverages and vegetarian dishes are available. At the Museum of Spirits they love snaps songs so at your table you will find a booklet with both classic and new snaps songs. 

Date: Starts 19/11, served between Wednesday and Saturday. 

Rosendals Trädgård

Have Christmas lunch or dinner in Rosendals Trädgårds’s Christmas decorated greenhouse where the tabels are set with fine porcelain’s and lanters light up. This years’s Christmas menu features classic dishes combined with new star dishes, all which are inspired by winter flavours. Alla dishes are prepared using seasonal biodynamic and organic ingredients from their own graden, small-scale producers or KRAV farms.

If you would rather stay at home or suprise loved ones with a nice gift, you can order Rosendals Trädgård’s Christmas box. In the Christmas box there are a lots of delicacies like Rosendals’s classic Christmas mustard, saffron crusts and blackcurrant mulled wine.

Date: 12/11 – 22/12

Photo: Claes Helander from Tyrol

We love autumn almost as much as summer. The leaves change color and soon Djurgården will be a fantastic coloroful island with a lot of activities for both young and old. Maybe you’re craving a little BBQ? Why not experience Halloween at Gröna Lund? Or learn about a new culture?

There’s a wide range of different activities, so grab your pen and notepad, because here are some of our best tips on what to do this fall 2021!

Ghosts, demons, and witches! 

Usually lurking in the dark autumn brings forward the nasties of creatures. For the fourth year Gröna Lund open its doors to Halloween. This time they offer terrifying monsters, five haunted houses and a horror parade that will make the bravest run for their life. For those who are not very fond of the horror genre, you can always stay in the small area. Filled with pumpkins and kind witches, it’s a perfect place for all families. It is nothing less than an autumn paradise!

A stone’s throw away from Gröna Lund is The Viking museum. Here you can experience autumn in vikingstyle. Tag along and join them on a guided tour where they discuss death and life after this.

For more than 30 years, the Mexican holiday, Día de Muertos – Day of the Dead – has been celebrated at the Museum of Ethnographic. The Holiday focus on honoring the memory of the dead. The weekend of November 6-7 The Museum of Ethnographic celebrates Die de Muertos with a craft market, home alters called ofrendas, dance and music performance with the folk-group Mexico Lindo and Mariachio Orchestra Fiesta Mexico.

For the family who prefers to sit in front of the fire, cuddle and grill sausages, we have the perfect autumn holiday activity for you!

Skansen has autumn activities for the whole family. They offer everything from BBQ to witch broom flying. Maybe Grandma wants to help with the quiz round? Or do mom and dad want to play old games from the past? You can always challenge the family to bowling at Kägelbanan by Gubbhyllan. Skansen has a large selection of activities for those who can’t decide.

At Junibacken you exchange the autumn holiday with a reading holiday. They have a lot of activities planned. For example, their bookstore has selected the best ghost stories for children and their parents. Here are both friendly ghost stories as well as real nail-biters. Additionally, they are opening the very special nightmare room and it’s not as scary as it sounds. Here children can write down or draw their nightmares and then leave it in the nightmare box. In the room you can also listen to other kids’ nightmares and fantasies about horrific stuff.

If none of the above attracts, why not take a walk around Djurgården? Look at the leaves that have changed color and go into one of the many cafes. Under EAT you will find several options.

There is an incredibly wide range of activities here at Djurgården and we have only mentioned a few. Open our calendar or take a look further down to take part in all the fun that is happening this autumn!

 

 

 

 

Since 1916, Liljevalchs has been an engine in Swedish art life. Here we remind you of the art gallery’s highlights and its history of more than 100 years. From the inaugural exhibition in 1916 with the top trio of the time Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors and Anders Zorn, to the 2020 pandemic presentation of Hilding Linnqvist.

When Liljevalchs was inaugurated in 1916, the Swedish Artists’ Association achieved the goal of creating an independent art gallery for permanent exhibitions of contemporary art. From the early years, Liljevalchs was established as an art gallery for both art and crafts, internationally and nationally, classics and contemporary.

Starting October 15, Liljevalchs presents scenes from 48 different exhibitions, reminding us of the breakthrough of modernists in 1918 and the Association of Swedish Artists’ Exhibition in 1921 with names such as Sigrid Hjertén and Siri Derkert, about the political 1960s with both The Nasty and Erotic Art, about Kjartan Slettemark’s poodle in 1975 and Hilma af Klint’s temple paintings in 1999.

In several exhibitions the home’s interior design and everyday design was noticed over they years starting in the Home Exhibition in 1917, and famous names such as Carl Malmsten, Märta Måås-Fjetterström and Josef Frank have of course been seen at Liljevalchs.

In 2012 Strindberg’s exhibition SexPosé the August. En djefla utställning was named Exhibition of the year, as was the spectacular fashion show Utopian Bodies. Fashion Looks Forward in 2015.

In 1952, a huge investment was made for the exhibition Mexican art from antiquity to present time as it required 12 train carriages for all objects. No wonder the exhibition broke the visitor record, the exhibition had an audience of 212,431 people.

These are just some of the highlights that are being shown in the exhibition which will be displayed between October 15, 2021, to January 16, 2022, in the Bergsten house.

Find out more about Liljevalchs 100 years anniversary here.