Apple Festival 2024!

Welcome to the Apple Festival at Djurgården, starting during apple day on September 25 and lasts until September 29! Find new and old ways to enjoy the celebrated fruit. As a drink, dessert or in food? Try out Royal Djurgården’s many museums and restaurants before you stroll around the nature. Did you know that Skansen has its own apple variety that was discovered in 2016? It will be colorful and tasty days where Djurgården comes together a little extra in honor of the apple!

Apple drink

The entrance of the apple Festival

Just as you cross the bridge, you are greeted by the restaurant Djurgårdsbron. Start your apple party with hot apple juice or apple cocktails together with coffee or a lunch that of course also reflects the apple. It’s the perfect place to sit down as it’s also where you’ll find the Royal Djurgården Visitor Center, which will tell you all about what’s going on during the apple days. There is a lot going on and therefore it is the best possible start.

Taste a “cloudy apple” at Hasselbacken

Apples are not only good to eat, they are perfect to have in drinks of all kinds. The venerable Hasselbacken has always had a rich drinking tradition and history so they will celebrate the apple with their very own apple party drink called “Cloudy apple” and you don’t want to miss it!

Cider, mash and apple dreams at Skroten

Nothing beats a fresh apple juice and Skroten Matbod och Deli has several different varieties from several juice factories around the country. But not only that! Here you can also treat yourself to their homemade applesauce and other apple marmalades, making everyday life at home much tastier.

Skroten Café and Ship Shop are also involved, which are a stone’s throw away! They serve “Skroten’s apple dream” which is a magical apple compote with toasted crumb dough and cheesecake crème, perfect as take away out in the autumn sun or eat on site in the café.

Apple Activities

Apple Days at Rosendal’s Garden

With a historic orchard where the first trees were planted in the 1860s, the apple plays a central role at Rosendals Trädgård. Rosendal’s Apple Festival takes place the weekend of September 28-29. At that time, the gardeners show off this year’s harvest and organize activities to spread knowledge about our apples. In the wood-fired bakery, bakery and kitchen at Rosendal, bakers and chefs take advantage of the harvest and promise delicious pastries with apple, juice and other goodies from this dear fruit.

Cider Sunday at Spritmuseum

One of the many amazing things you can do with apples is of course cider! There is fantastically good craft cider and at Spritmuseum you can explore flavors, techniques and trends. A warm welcome to Cider Sunday on September 29th! Pair the fresh cider with good food and good company in Spritmuseum’s cozy arbor.

Vasa’s sister ship Äpplet

Did you know that Vasa’s sister ship, launched in 1629, is called the apple? In 2023, Vrak’s divers and maritime archaeologists found Äpplet’s wreck, which is located out in the Stockholm archipelago. That’s why Vrak’s daily guided tours are about the Apple during the Apple Festival.
Times for the tours: 11.00 Swedish, 12.00 English, 14.00 Swedish, 15.00 English.  Welcome!

Inside Mackverket you can also treat yourself to good apple doughnuts, a perfect end after a day at Vrak.

Story telling  and home made apple cake at Junibacken

Why not relax and listen to Jan Lööf’s story, The Tale of the Red Apple. During the Apple festival there will be readings every day in part of Junibackens’ bookstore called: The Archive. For those who get the urge, Junibackens’ KRAV-certified restaurant serves home made applecake with custard and applecider from Värmdö.

Skansen’s very own apple variety

In 2016, a completely new apple variety was discovered, Skansen’s very own! Orchard cultivation in Sweden has a long history. During the 1600s, the nobility established large orchards on their estates, and the soldiers brought cultivation skills and new varieties of fruit to Sweden from the wars on the continent. At Skansen there is Skogaholm’s apple orchard where there are many different kinds of apples, both common and more unusual varieties.

Once inside Skansen, take the opportunity to visit both Gubbhyllan and Krogen Stora Gungan which serves a glass of chilled unfiltered apple juice together with an apple tart, apple and maple syrup caramel, freshly cranked caramelized apple milk ice cream!

The apple in mythology

Another well-known apple is of course Idun’s apple. She is the goddess of youth and fertility and in her basket she keeps the golden apples that the gods eat from to keep herself eternally young and strong. Idun’s apples gave eternal youth and beauty, and in Old Norse mythology, the apple symbolizes fertility and eternal youth. Learn more about Idun’s apple at The Viking Museum during the apple feast.

Apple food

Apples in the Nordic countries

Apples have been part of the Nordic diet for hundreds of years, so being able to taste the Nordic Museum‘s apple menu during the apple festival is a matter of course! Sweden has a huge apple treasure with many varieties that are only preserved thanks to our gene banks. One of these is the Nordic Museum’s own collection at Julita farm in Sörmland, where about 120 varieties grow.

Även i Nordiska museets bakgård serveras det goda bakverk i äpplets tecken. Lusknäppen serverar fika under hela veckan som du kan njuta av under träden.

Apple donuts by the canal

Out in the museum park you will find the Maritime Café and Bar that will serve delicious apple donuts during the apple week. Apple donuts came to Sweden in the 1800s and have since become a popular pastry. It is believed that monks may have gotten their name from monastic monks. Perhaps from the tonsure that monks put on their heads or from the roundabout they got from eating many donuts.

Apples baked with love

Out in Blockhusudden is the Thiel Gallery, which is also home to Café Monika Ahlberg. Here, everything is baked with love and warmth all year round, but during the apple feast, there is an extra strong theme on the coffee table. Then the apple is in focus throughout the festival with about 20 versions of apple cakes, cold-pressed apple juice and apple accompaniments in the dishes!

Apple coffee at Konsthallen

Konsthallen is located in the heart of Djurgården and they will serve freshly fried apple donuts with cardamom ice cream and oat crumbs, and in Konsthallen café you will find apple and cinnamon in a golden cake combination! As always, you will find juice made from rescued fruit among the chilled drinks.

Vasa’s apple menu

Many people mainly associate the apple in baked goods, but it is of course also a fantastic element in their lunch or dinner. Throughout the apple festival, the menu at the Vasa Museum’s restaurant is inspired by apples, both in the food and the pastries. The interior design also makes the festival feel like it has apples adorning the restaurant.