The Vasa Museum is part of Stockholm Culture Night. Free admission and live music!
The museum is open until midnight. Welcome to see the ship and listen to live music. During the evening there is the opportunity to experience the newly opened exhibition James Cameron – Challenging the Deep.
Eat and drink
Welcome to the museum’s restaurant, which is also open during the evening. Enjoy food and drinks either in the restaurant or under the ship’s beakhead.
HRH Prince Daniel will give the opening speech. In addition, a specially composed piece of music will be performed, the artist will be present and much more. The inauguration will take place at the work, see directions to the site here.
Cristina Iglesias, born in November 1956, lives and works in Madrid. She studied chemistry before training at Chelsea School of Art in London and is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary sculptors. Over more than four decades, Iglesias has developed an artistic language at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and nature. Working in materials such as bronze, steel, glass, and water, she creates large-scale works that often relate to the history of a site.
Find out more about the Artist of the Year and the inauguration here!
The Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation was founded in 2019 and has presented a work of art every year since its inception, with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent world-class sculpture park in the Rosendal area on Royal Djurgården. Cristina Iglesias work Aurora Borealis Star Dome is the seventh work in the collection.
Read more about the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation here!
This year, Walpurgis will be celebrated in two parts during the evening: an earlier celebration for children and families, followed by the traditional evening programme at the Solliden Stage.
Location: Sollidenplan, 17:00–18:00 (the small bonfire is lit at 17:30)
New this year is Children’s Walpurgis – an earlier and slightly calmer celebration designed for our youngest guests. Here, children and adults can experience Walpurgis together in a format suited to children’s rhythm and evening routines. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase on site.
The programme begins at 17:00 with music and traditional choral singing of classic Walpurgis songs. At 17:30, the smaller spring bonfire is lit, and the celebration concludes at 18:00.
Children’s Walpurgis is especially suitable for children aged approximately 3–9 – and for anyone who would like to welcome spring before it gets too late in the evening.
Location: Solliden Stage, 20:30–22:00 (the bonfire is lit at 21:00)
In the evening, the traditional Walpurgis celebration continues at the Solliden Stage. The programme features a traditional spring speech, choral singing and musical entertainment before the large bonfire is lit at 21:00. As the flames rise and the songs of spring echo across Djurgården, the special Walpurgis atmosphere is created – one that has made the celebration at Skansen a cherished tradition for generations.
More information about the evening stage programme will be presented shortly.
The exhibition James Cameron – Challenging the Deep highlights the renowned filmmaker – known for classics such as Avatar and Titanic – as well as ocean explorer and technology innovator James Cameron. With props from Cameron’s feature films, film projections, and rare objects, visitors can experience Cameron’s greatest underwater endeavors, both real and fictional.
The exhibition has been developed by the Australian National Maritime Museum in collaboration with the Avatar Alliance Foundation. Visitors can explore the ocean depths through Cameron’s underwater cameras and extraordinary technological innovations, and experience some of the least explored and most unknown deep-sea environments.
“When I watched all the great ocean explorers on TV in the 1960s, I was captivated by that alien world here on Earth. I couldn’t imagine anything more powerful or more exotic.”
So says James Cameron himself in the exhibition, which has so far been seen by over one million visitors in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. The Vasa Museum will be the first venue in Europe to present the exhibition.
James Cameron – Challenging the Deep is a temporary exhibition and will be on view at the Vasa Museum from 4 March 2026 to 30 September 2027.
Gör nyårsnatten oförglömlig på Stockholms bästa utsiktsplats!
Tolvslaget på Skansen
Kvällen bjuder på underhållning med livemusik som andas både fest och nostalgi! Mellan kl. 23.25-00.15 livesänds firandet från Sollidenscenen i SVT Play och SVT1.
Skådespelaren och regissören Helena Bergström får i år det traditionstunga uppdraget att läsa Lord Alfred Tennysons dikt Nyårsklockan.
Nyårsfirandet programleds av Linnea Wikblad och André Pops och Johan Granströms orkester ackompanjerar kvällens artister. Medverkande artister är Tommy Körberg, Charlotte Perrelli, Greczula, Fanny Avonne och Tensta Joyful Noise.
Christmas market in Stora hallen with unique and sustainable Christmas gifts. This year’s Christmas tree decorator, Gustav Broström , has invited his favorites in antiques, second-hand, and handicrafts to participate in the Christmas market in Stora hallen.
During Advent, we invite you to Family Sundays at Café Ektorpet, where we bake the Prince’s delicious gingerbread cookies together. We roll out and cut gingerbread shapes inspired by Prince Eugen’s life. While the cookies bake, we decorate pretty bags to take the cookies home in.
The activity is suitable for children and adults together. Recommended age is 5 and up. Due to limited space, we unfortunately cannot admit accompanying children or adults without a ticket. The dough contains lactose and gluten.
Location: Café Ektorpet, entry from 9:50 AM.
Please note that Café Ektorpet is located in the museum park.
16 spots available
You can find more activities for children and families here.
For questions, please contact the Curator of Museum Education, Sophie Lindberg, at s.lindberg@waldemarsudde.se.
During Advent, we invite you to Family Sundays at Café Ektorpet, where we bake the Prince’s delicious gingerbread cookies together. We roll out and cut gingerbread shapes inspired by Prince Eugen’s life. While the cookies bake, we decorate pretty bags to take the cookies home in.
The activity is suitable for children and adults together. Recommended age is 5 and up. Due to limited space, we unfortunately cannot admit accompanying children or adults without a ticket. The dough contains lactose and gluten.
Location: Café Ektorpet, entry from 9:50 AM.
Please note that Café Ektorpet is located in the museum park.
16 spots available
You can find more activities for children and families here.
For questions, please contact the Curator of Museum Education, Sophie Lindberg, at s.lindberg@waldemarsudde.se.
During Advent, we invite you to Family Sundays at Café Ektorpet, where we bake Prince Eugen’s delicious gingerbread cookies together. We roll out and cut gingerbread cookies inspired by the life of Prince Eugen. While the cookies bake, we decorate beautiful bags to take the gingerbread cookies home in.
The activity is suitable for children and adults together. Recommended age is 5 and up. Due to limited space, we unfortunately cannot admit accompanying children or adults without a ticket. The dough contains lactose and gluten.
Location: Café Ektorpet, entry from 9:50 AM. Please note that Café Ektorpet is located in the museum park.
16 spots available.
You can find more activities for children and families here.
For questions, please contact the museum’s education curator Sophie Lindberg at s.lindberg@waldemarsudde.se.
To be able to cancel your ticket, add cancellation insurance via Mysafety when purchasing your ticket.
Experience captivating music in harmony with art!
Performing musicians: RSPO Orchestra Academy and Anders Lagerqvist (violin)
Music by: Jean Sibelius, Gabriel Fauré, Franz Liszt, and Martin Hederos
Recitation: Irene Lindh
Texts by: Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Tomas Tranströmer, Viktor Rydberg, and Verner von Heidenstam
Location: The Gallery
Opening information:
Only the part of the museum where the concert is held, as well as the Prince’s Kitchen, will remain open until the program begins at 18:30.
During Advent, we invite you to Family Sundays at Café Ektorpet, where we bake Prince Eugen’s delicious gingerbread cookies together. We roll out and cut gingerbread cookies inspired by the life of Prince Eugen. While the cookies bake, we decorate beautiful bags to take the gingerbread cookies home in.
The activity is suitable for children and adults together. Recommended age is 5 and up. Due to limited space, we unfortunately cannot admit accompanying children or adults without a ticket. The dough contains lactose and gluten.
Location: Café Ektorpet, entry from 9:50 AM. Please note that Café Ektorpet is located in the museum park.
16 spots available.
You can find more activities for children and families here.
For questions, please contact the museum’s education curator Sophie Lindberg at s.lindberg@waldemarsudde.se.
To be able to cancel your ticket, add cancellation insurance via Mysafety when purchasing your ticket.
A warm welcome to Handarbetets Vänner School’s annual Christmas market and open house on Djurgården in Stockholm.
Shop for Christmas gifts and enjoy craft art and Advent treats in the historic atmosphere of our pink house on Djurgården.
On November 29 from 10:00–16:00, you’ll have the chance to buy this year’s Christmas gifts made by the school’s students. Fika will be available for purchase, and new this year is that the Christmas market will be held in the Handarbetets Vänner Gallery.
Open House
During the day, Handarbetets Vänner School will open the doors to the classrooms where the next generation of textile and craft artists are trained. Students and teachers will be on site to give tours and talk about our three full-time textile programs: Advanced Textile Craft Education, Textile Craft Foundation Year – Weaving, and Textile Craft Foundation Year – Sewing, as well as our short courses in a wide range of textile craft techniques.
Date and Time
29 November, 10:00–16:00
Location
Handarbetets Vänner
Djurgårdsslätten 82–84, Stockholm
Directions: Tram 7 or bus 67 to the “Skansen” stop
Here you can buy everything from traditional crafts and design to sweets and delicacies, handmade candles, and secret Christmas gifts. You’ll find the Christmas market at Bollnästorget inside Skansen, open Friday–Sunday from November 28 to December 21, 2025. Each day also offers the chance to join in and dance around the Christmas tree at the Bollnästorget dance floor!
The Christmas market is included in the admission ticket, and annual passes are valid. Free entry for children ages 0–15.
Opening hours: Fri–Sat 10:00–17:00, Sun 10:00–16:00.
Read more about Skansen’s Christmas Market.
This autumn’s major exhibition, Made in Sweden, brings together Swedish wine and cider producers — and their artisanal beverages — in one and the same exhibition for the very first time.
15 beverage farmers, 15 stories, 15 drinks. And the completely unique opportunity to taste them all.
Over the course of a year, food and beverage journalist Per Styregård has visited and documented Swedish beverage farms together with photographer Erik Olsson. In Made in Sweden, they shape a story about hard work, craftsmanship, and passion among Swedish winemakers and cider producers.
The exhibition’s beverage dispensers offer visitors a unique opportunity to taste a wide range of Swedish wines and ciders. In recorded interviews with each producer, visitors can follow a journey where passion and craftsmanship meet.
Särtshöga Vingård, Brännland Iscider, Kullabergs Vingård, Pomologik, Thora Vingård, Långmyre Vineri, Axelstorps Fruktodling, Jesper Friberg, Vingården i Klagshamn, Ästad Vingård, Lottenlund Estate, Flädie Mat och Vingård, Fruktstereo, Hällåkra Vingård
Nordic Moments showcases one of the Nordic region’s largest collections of historical photography. Through a changing display of images, the exhibition offers personal and cultural perspectives on life in the Nordic countries.
Nordic Moments is presented across seven rooms. Where, themes, photographers, formats and eras shift and evolve in a series of temporary exhibitions. The first main theme Metamorphoses, invites you on a dreamlike journey through memory, time and chemical transformation.
Metamorphoses presents a selection of photographs that have undergone a visual transformation. When around 100,000 photo negatives were damaged by a water leak, a major rescue effort was launched to preserve, restore and digitise them. But in the process, something unexpected happened: new images began to emerge.
Read more about this unique exhibit and start planing your visit here.
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting has been highlighted and acclaimed internationally as one of the most significant exhibitions in contemporary art.
The exhibition features over 148 works from institutional and private lenders located across 16 countries, bringing together artworks from the past 100 years, created by Black artists worldwide. The exhibition places these works in dialogue with Black thinkers, writers, and poets active today.
When We See Us, originally conceived and organized by Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has been internationally acclaimed as one of the most significant exhibitions in the world focusing on Black representation and identity. Zeitz MOCAA is a groundbreaking institution in Cape Town, South Africa, dedicated to promoting and preserving contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora.
Learn more about this amazing exhibit on Liljevalchs website.
Nordiska Museet is opening it’s doors wide to celebrate it’s 152nd anniversary and highlight the museum’s long-standing development of this historic building. Designed by architect Isac Gustaf Clason, this architectural masterpiece has welcomed visitors since 1907 and remains one of Stockholm’s most iconic landmarks.
On the museum’s birthday, visitors are invited to explore the museum like never before. Special guided tours will take you through the exhibitions, around the building, and even behind the scenes. The celebration also includes an architecture lecture, engaging discussions, and live entertainment. DJs and live artists from the club The Last Sesh will perform in the museum’s grand central hall—a space originally designed for public festivities.
This unique event is a rare opportunity to experience the museum in a festive atmosphere while discovering the history, architecture, and cultural treasures that make Nordiska Museet a cornerstone of Stockholm’s heritage.
During this year’s Harvest Festival, Rosendals Trädgård’s restaurant Herbarium will open for a special evening featuring a unique menu created by Paul Svensson and head chef Olle Broström.
The menu combines the very best from the garden and forest, together with local ingredients from the Royal Djurgården. A perfect opportunity to experience the flavors of the season in a magical setting!
You can find more information about how to secure your dinner here!
The Harvest Festival is back! From September 12- 14 Rosendals Trägård will transform into a vibrant marketplace filled with scents, flavors, and inspiration. Over three days, their gardeners, chefs, and growers will present a program where sustainability and taste take center stage.
More information about celebrating this year’s harvest can be found here!
On 23–24 May 2026, the park comes alive with play, music and a joyful “Tjolahopp tjolahej” atmosphere for the whole family. Enjoy a colourful musical theatre performance at Sollidenscenen and take part in music, market stalls and fun activities inspired by Pippi and other beloved characters from Astrid Lindgren’s stories.