The Police Museum and the National Sports Museum reopens!

Happy news! On June 17, the National Sports Museum and the Police Museum will finally reopen, which means that all museums here at Djurgården are finally open again.

At the Police Museum you will learn more about what the police do and about the role that they play in a democratic society. In the new exhibition The art of forgery you will find paintings falsely credited to artist as Picasso and Jenny Nyström among other famous artists before the police seized them and declared them as forged artwork.

In the exhibition The Trigger – 150 years of police photography, visitors can take a look at a selection of crime scene photos and mug shots from the 19 the century to present time. The visitor can also step into the shoes of a forensic scientist or learn more about hate crimes. 

At the National Sports Museum you can see exhibits on Swedish sports from ancient times until today. You can also try different sports activities and challenge yourself or others in fun competitive activities.⁠

A new exhibition will also open at the museum, the exhibition Crash colors is based on a pair of Hawaiian swimming trunks that the artist Jörgen Agardtson received as a gift. The pattern attracted the artist to research on surf culture and boats that have traditionally been used in Pacific cultures. With expressions from a painting of the swimming trunks in bright colors to paintings that whisper about stories in a different emotional state, we are moved out into nature, close to the sea.

In the museum’s yard, there will also be heptathlon for the smaller children. In the heptathlon includes throwing, crawling, jumping and balancing in different stations.

In the museum park you will also find the National Museum of Science and Technology, the Maritime Museum and the Museum of Ethnography, they are also open and welcomes you.