In February 2024, Nordiska museet opened its largest exhibition ever – Nordic Life (in Swedish called Nordbor). A visual museum experience and a dynamic narrative about everyday life and people in the Nordic region over 500 years.
The museum’s biggest exhibition effort ever is produced by Nordiska museet in collaboration with experts from universities and museums in Sweden and the Nordic countries. It is a visual experience and manifestation of the extensive collections at Nordiska museet.
The new core exhibition, Nordic Life , spans the entire top floor of the Nordiska museet on Djurgården and includes approximately 4,000 objects distributed across 27 rooms.
As a visitor, you will journey through our cultural history and four seasons. Past forests, villages, and cities. Along the way, you will encounter real-life stories from history. Traveler Samuel, forest dweller Elisabet, freedom enthusiast Peter, and midwife Catarina are some of them.
True Crime offers thrilling and fascinating stories about how a group of tricksters defies authority, takes matters into their own hands, and uses their creativity to circumvent the strict alcohol regulations that limit their interests and desires. Welcome to the Royal Djurgården on November 25th!
The True Crime exhibition tells the story of Sweden in the 1920s and 1930s, a period when moonshining, smuggling, and bootlegging of alcohol were seen as some of the most significant societal problems. Stringent restrictions imposed by the government made it harder to obtain the society-threatening liquor, but at the same time, it opened the door to an illegal market where bootlegged spirits flowed across the country. The more restrictions, the more illicit alcohol became charged and desirable.
True Crime highlights various criminal cases and criminals, such as the moonshiner “Storkevan,” whose moonshine still exploded on Stora Nygatan in Stockholm, the horse trader Ivar Severin Jansson, who bootlegged spirits from a hip flask with a tap on Norrlandsgatan, and the major smuggler Karl Georg Malmberg, who installed a fog machine on his ship to bewilder customs with a smokescreen.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the illustrator and author Jakob Nilsson (known for the comic book “Revolver-Harry”) and the set designer Lehna Edwall.
Did you know that you can book a guided tour of the museum? Thirty minutes of history and matching drinks according to the theme. Choose the day and time that suits your group best. Learn more about the exhibition on their website.
True Crime opens on November 24, 2023. The final date of the exhibition is November 24, 2024.
ABBA Voyage Exhibition @ ABBA The Museum bring visitors backstage into the creation of the virtual concert experience that plays i West End, London. Get a closer look here at Royal Djurgården!
See exclusive interviews, images and the stage outfits that B Åkerlund created together with people such as Dolce&Gabbana and Michael Schmidt.
The exhibition found at ABBA The Museum is temporary one and will be available until May of 2025, a total of 2 years of fun!
Read more about the exhibitions at the museum webpage.
What will cities of the future look like?
Zero City is a challenging exhibition of the sustainable and fossil-free city of tomorrow.
Welcome to an interactive and challenging exhibition, covering 1,200 square metres, where visitors will come together to plan the transportation of people and goods in the future fossil-free city, in order to achieve climate goals.
Explore areas such as the port, power station, shopping street, side street and piazza, and encounter other aspects of how we can plan the city of tomorrow that is both climate-smart and pleasant to live in.
Read more about the exhibition here.
At the Vasa Museum the whole family can share an adventure.
Audio guide for children
“The Boy and the Ship – a Trip into the Past” is a audioguide for children. It is about Olof who grows up in Stockholm in the 1620s. He works at the shipyard where the king’s new magnificent ship is being built and dreams of sailing with it…
The audio guide is free and you listen to it on your own phone or tablet, with headphones if you have. It is available in English, Finnish, German and Swedish.
For children aged 8–12 years accompanied by an adult.
Family trail
Discover the ship Vasa’s history by following a family trail through the museum, children and adults together at your own pace. It is available as a printed brochure at the museum, in several languages, or digitally in English and Swedish via the museum’s website. The museum has free WiFi.
Suitable for children from age 6.
The Vasa Piglet
Film
One day a piglet called Lindbom leaves his beloved mud puddle and heads out on a great adventure on board the warship Vasa.
The film is based on the book “The Vasa Piglet” written by Björn Bergenholtz.
The film is 17 minutes long and suitable for children from the age of 3. It is shown several times every day in different languages.
Trail
After watching the film, you can follow in Lindbom’s footsteps through the museum. Free trail guides in English and Swedish can be found by the film screening or at the information desk. Go with the Piglet Lindbom through the museum and answer tricky questions based on the film. The guide also contains activities that you can do at home. Suitable for children from age 3.
The film about Vasa
For older children (and for adults), there is a film about Vasa which gives a good introduction to the ship’s unusual and exciting history. It tells you about the construction of Vasa at the ship yard, the sinking, about life in Stockholm during the early 1600s, and about the salvage, excavation and preservation of the ship. The film is 17 minutes and shown daily in several languages.
Suitable for children from approximately age 6.
Full-scale model
You can also enter a full-scale model of a part of Vasa, and see the crew’s personal belongings that have been found – all in the exhibition Life onboard.
For more information, please visit the Vasa Museum’s website: vasamuseet.se/en/visit/kids–families
Get ready for a journey through time
At the bottom of the museum’s basement vault is a magical place. Through a secret portal, you step straight into the children’s own history! Tidsvalvet is a new major investment and interactive experience for children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, at Nordiska museet.
How would your everyday life look like if you had been a child during a different time? What would you have been doing during the days? What would your home look like, what kind of clothes would you be wearing, and what would you have been eating for dinner? In Tidsvalvet you explore more than 150 years of history and everyday life displayed through scenography, digital stations, as well as real objects and stories.
Tickets
Before your visit, you pre-book a ticket for a time pass that lasts for 90 minutes, with a specific starting time. The number of time passes are limited.
Buy your tickets here.
An exhibition about the warship Vasa’s sculptures and their message, and about how Vasa was intended to be sailed and used in battle.
Vasa was as much a floating palace as a sailing vessel and war machine. The Vasa Up Close exhibition provides deeper understanding of the sculptures, what they looked like and, not least, what they symbolised and the messages they sent.
The Vasa has 460 sculptures and over 300 ornaments. Several of the sculptures are based on biblical stories, others on ancient myths. The sculptures make no sound, yet speak many languages. There were many different nationalities in Stockholm in the 17th century, and few could read. Naturally, the intention was also for other countries to be able to understand the sculptures’ message about the Swedish king’s courage and power.
A selection of Vasa sculpture reconstructions is presented in the Vasa Up Close exhibition, all of which can be seen in the original on the ship. The exhibition also includes a digital production which delves deeper into the sculptures and provides a better understanding of how Vasa worked as a sailing vessel and warship.
Click here to learn more about the exhibition.
What happens when technology makes it possible for us to design our children using genome editing? Where is the distinction between man and machine when we are able to enhance and replace body parts? Who is in control when we allow artificial intelligence to make decisions in crucial life choices? Explore these questions and more in The National Museum of Science and Technology‘s new exhibition Hyper Human.
Visitors to the exhibition will be challenged by a range of different ethical questions, where there are consequences to every response.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Nordiska museet’s major exhibition, The Arctic – while the ice is melting, allows visitors to meet people from some of the world’s coldest places, where the environment and living conditions are changing at a rapid pace due to climate change.
The exhibition depicts people’s everyday life in a dramatic landscape, interpreted in a grand artistic and architectural space by the artist- and design duo MUSEEA.
The highlight of the exhibition is a huge block of ice, with a deep crack between then and now. Here visitors meet the history and future of ice – but above all the people who live in the Arctic of today, through photographs, films and voices.
The exhibition covers parts of the Arctic located in the Nordic region: Qaanaaq in Greenland, Vatnajökull in Iceland, Rovaniemi in Finland, Narvik in Norway and Arjeplog and Abisko in Sweden – but also touches the east and west of the Arctic like the Clyde River in Canada and Jamal in Russia.
The exhibition stems from the collaborative research on the subject People in the Arctic in the light of climate change led by Lotten Gustafsson Reinius, Hallwyl Visiting Professor of Ethnology at Nordiska museet and Stockholm University.
Nordiska museet collaborates with exhibition designers MUSEEA. Documentary photographer Camilla Andersen has created footage for the short films produced by the museum in collaboration with local communities and researchers. The project is partly financed by the Nordic Culture Fund and FORMAS, the Research Council for Sustainable Development.
