Djurgården tips for the autumn holidays 2022!
At Royal Djurgården, we love autumn almost as much as summer. The leaves are changing colour and soon Djurgården will be a fantastic colourful island with lots of activities for young and old alike. Perhaps you’d like to go on a coffin hunt? Why not solve an exciting mystery at Skansen? Learn how Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico? Or why not take a course in programming at the Museum of Technology?
We offer a wide range, so grab your pen and notepad because here are some of our top Djurgården tips for the 2022 autumn holidays!
Ghosts, ghouls and demons!
Autumn is full of scary creatures hiding in the dark. For the fifth year in a row, Gröna Lund is opening its doors to gas-guzzling monsters, five houses of horrors and a parade of frights that will make even the bravest of us crazy. If you’re not a big fan of horror, you can always stay in the small area. Filled with pumpkins and friendly witches, it’s a perfect place for young and old alike to enjoy; it’s nothing short of an autumn paradise.
A stone’s throw away from Gröna Lund is The Viking Museum. In October, the museum becomes even more magical and a bit spooky! During the autumn holidays, the museum is filled with brutal and frightening anecdotes about bloody, historical events from the Viking Age. The family tours will not be as scary, but will focus on folklore and mythology. Dare to join the staff after closing time and find out what goes on in the museum when the lights go out or why not be divined by mysterious Wolves who can tell your future? There will also be a cosy Autumn Ball. They will talk about the Viking festival and perform a blot ceremony.
Or maybe you want to get back in the school desk and learn about “Day of the Dead”? For more than 30 years, the Mexican holiday Dia de Muertos has been celebrated at the Museum of Ethnography and on November 5-6 it’s happening again! The museum will celebrate the holiday with Mexican folk dance and music, a market, a tour, sacrificial altar ofrenda, a film screening, and creative activities in the museum’s creative workshop. The music and dance performance “Fiesta en el cementario/Fest in the Cemetery” will be performed several times during the weekend. Performers include the folk dance group Mexico Lindo and the Mariachi orchestra Fiesta México.
For the family that prefers to sit in front of the fire, cozy up and grill sausages, we have the perfect autumn holiday activity!
Skansen has autumn holidays for the whole family. A mystery on the theme of discovery and strange plants in the City Quarter.
An exciting and mysterious adventure where you will help the children of the Secret Society to solve the mystery of the strange plant. You’ll meet the explorer Viola of Compassroos, a curious journalist, the singing sailor Vega Våghals and a bunch of other interesting characters! Look for clues, solve riddles and help the Secret Society solve the mystery of the City Quarter. Whoever is really clever and solves the mystery gets a reward. You can always challenge the family to a cane-horse jump, at the Order House Brofästet. Skansen has a great selection for those who can’t make up their minds.
Why not take a tour of the Nordic Museum during the autumn holidays? What really happens at the Nordic Museum after dark? There’s something strange about the old museum building. A lot of mysterious traces and figures have been seen lately. The museum assures us that everything is in order. But rumor has it that the old creature archive has been left unlocked. For two evenings in the autumn holidays, you have the chance to find out for yourself. The Nordic Museum welcomes Halloween-weary families to an interactive museum experience filled with mysterious creatures and folktale stories.
Also don’t miss the autumn holidays at the Museum of Wreck’s. During the autumn holidays, there are daily family screenings at 1pm starting with watching the film “Sea of Memories”. Take the opportunity to also look around the museum’s many different exciting exhibits and take a VR dive on a wreck! During the week, you will also be able to make crafts in the museum!
Take inspiration from autumn and be creative during the autumn holidays!
Prince Eugene’s Waldemarsudde has organised the perfect autumn holiday activity for those interested in art and theatre with a focus on clothing and fashion. Isaac Grünewald’s paintings are filled with shimmering colours and interesting characters. In both self-portraits, portraits of friends and costume sketches, clothes are used to emphasise characteristics and stories. We will begin with a tour of the exhibition followed by a studio workshop where we will create our own experimental fashion collages inspired by the paintings.
On the other side of the water, the Maritime Museum offers a glimpse into the Escape from the Baltic and the children who fled across the Baltic Sea during the Second World War. We listen to their stories. We read aloud from children’s books about children on the run and create together on the theme. They also offer a coffin hunt and a creative workshop.
Swap autumn holidays for reading and programming holidays!
Junibacken offers a reading holiday full of fun for both children and adults, with everything from theatre to nightmare rooms and ice cream. Almost every day the show Skinn Skerping – the scariest of all ghosts in Småland, based on Astrid Lindgren’s short story, is on and is perfect for children aged 5 and upwards. Reading holidays at Junibacken offer autumn play in Sweden’s largest Moomin playground, theatre every day and an exciting ghost hunt. Between 29 October and 6 November, all children who come dressed up will get an ice cream, an apple or why not both. There’s room for nightmarish spiders, cute monsters and speedy unicorns. Welcome to a magical autumn holiday at Junibacken!
If you take the bike 10 minutes from Junibacken and follow Rosendalsvägen, you’ll end up at the Museum of Technology, and here the focus is on a proper programming course. Discover explosive space shows, explore the Hyper Human exhibition or take a tour of Zero City. Learn the basics of programming by coding with various graphical and tactile programming tools. No prior experience is required, but since we work with block code, basic reading comprehension is helpful. You participate in the course without adults or other family members. Perfect for those who are curious!
Right next to the Museum of Technology is the Police Museum, where you can go on an exciting tour of crime scene investigations, ending with a look at how the police go about securing fingerprints! What’s the first thing the police have to do when they arrive at a crime scene? And what happens next? What kind of clues can you find there? And who is actually looking for all the clues?
If none of the above appeals, why not take a leisurely stroll around Djurgården? Look at the leaves that have changed colour and go into one of the many cafés, under EAT you will find several options.
There is an incredibly wide range of activities here on Djurgården and we have only mentioned a few. Open up our calendar or take a look further down to find out about all the other fun happening here this autumn!
