Easter break at Djurgården 2025
07/04/2025Easter is approaching, and with it comes the second school holiday of the year – the Easter holiday! Of course, the Royal Djurgården Museums have loaded up with lots of fun and Easter activities for all ages during the holiday week.
Below we have collected tips on fun activities that are perfect for an Easter holiday for the whole family.
Photo: Anna Hugosson, Easter crafts at Skogens hus at Skansen.
Family guiding of Yokai at the Ethnographic Museum
April 25th
People have always sought explanations for strange phenomena, strange dreams or the feeling of an invisible presence. In Japanese folklore, we talk about Yokai. Yokai are Japanese creatures – loved, feared and part of popular culture for hundreds of years. From Edo period (1603-1868) scroll paintings, woodblock prints and books – to today’s video games, films and manga.
Magical Easter holiday at Junibacken
Junibacken welcomes you to a magical Easter holiday! We will be celebrating Moomin’s 80th birthday by creating a Moominhouse together with visitors. With the help of colourful Plus-Plus pieces and a large dose of imagination, something unique is created together. When the house is ready, it will be submitted to the international Moominhouse competition, and the days will be filled with theatre, playful exhibitions and departures on the magical Fairy Tale Train.
Read more about what happens at Junibacken during Easter here
Easter break at Nordiska museet
Nordiska museet takes you on a journey through time! Discover the Time Vault and step into children’s history through a magical portal. Or dress up as a maid or a farmhand and play your way through all the farm chores in the Playhouse! Continue the day by solving quests in exhibitions with your family! Several different family trails await you!
Maritime Museum – Easter holiday with the theme Pippi
The Maritime Museum offers film screenings, story time, scrub brush skating, a scavenger hunt and much more during the Easter holiday. Try what it’s like to ‘skate’ on scrubbing brushes like Pippi does when she scrubs the floor. There are helmets and Pippi wigs to borrow on site. Why not pop in and get a Pippi themed rub-on tattoo.
Easter Break at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks
See the newly opened Viking exhibition at Vrak, take on the challenge of the Viking tug-of-war, make your own Viking-themed film and much more! All Easter holiday activities are free for children and young people.
Make your own stop-motion film with an educator who will teach you how to animate. Put together your own scene with a Viking ship, make up your own Viking name and bring your imagination to life! The activity is free and suitable for children from around 6 years old. Limited number of places, pre-booked.
Show off your navigation skills, bring out your strength and row like a Viking. Tighten up your bow and let your mates see how bulletproof you are! Stickers for all children who complete the Viking Trident!
Easter celebration at Skansen
Skansen always has fantastic celebrations of all holidays and is perfect for those who want a traditional magical Easter. This year, Easter will be celebrated at Skansen between 12 and 21 April and will be filled with lots of fun celebrations. See and try Ukrainian egg painting (18,19/4) Learn more about eggs at Lill-Skansen, listen to music and stories, paint yourself or someone else as an Easter bunny and tie your own broom outside Bragehallen, go on a tip walk and grill sausages at Bollnästorget! In Skansen’s cultural-historical environments, you can meet their educators and learn more about how Easter was celebrated in different times. On Easter Eve there will be a spring concert with the folk music trio Kviga in Seglora church.
Read more about Skansen’s Easter celebrations here
Can you solve the case of the pick pocket at the Police Museum?
Recently, several people have had their wallets stolen, but so far the thief has been cunning and left no trace – until now! The police have a lead, but what kind of officers are needed? Forensic scientists? Reconnaissance officers? Dog handlers? Join an exciting investigation where co-operation is the key to finding the thief! Suitable for children aged 8-12.
In the museum’s children’s exhibition Police, police… you can also dress up in a police uniform and ‘drive blue’ in the police car. The Police Museum has something for children of all ages.
Easter Crafts and Egg Hunt at Thiel Gallery
The Thiel Gallery welcomes you and the whole family to make fun Easter crafts at their craft table and go on an exciting egg hunt in the art collection. The craft table is open on Good Friday, Easter Eve and Easter Sunday.
Admission to the museum is free for children, but a craft ticket costs 20 SEK, and adults pay the regular entrance fee.
Embark on a forest and space adventure at Tekniska – National Museum Science and Technology!
Welcome to an Easter holiday filled with forest games, mysteries and adventures! During the holiday, Tekniska is transformed into a forest holiday with activities for the whole family – from interactive adventures to creative workshops. Explore, discover and play your heart out in nature – indoors. Join us on a space adventure during the Easter holidays! Go back and forth into space and take a look at all the stars and planets in 3D in Wisdome Stockholm.
Spring comes to The Viking Museum
Meet our Viking farmers and discover what crops and spices they will grow, and what they are used for. Perhaps you and your family would like to take a small Viking herb home, where it can grow and later be harvested?
On Tuesday April 15th and Wednesday April th, the museum will be visited by sheep Freja and Idun, from Överjärva Farm and the Nature Group, who will be in Galärparken outside The Viking Museum. Come and pet the sheep and learn about how wool was sheared and prepared during the Viking Age.
There will also be family tours every day at 11.30 and 13.30 during the holidays. There is also the opportunity to strike your own silver coin in the exhibition. Between 2pm and 5pm each day, there will be a Viking trader on hand to discuss trade with, as well as merchandise to take a closer look at. On April 7th at 3.30pm, a Spring Blot will be held at the museum, to ask the gods for help with crops and future harvests.
