Upcoming activities in Rosendal

In the beautiful area of Rosendal, there are many wonderful places to visit during the summer to enjoy good food, coffee and fun activities.

Rosendal Palace
Rosendal Palace  has never been a residence in the modern sense, but was only intended to be a retreat away from the more formal court life at the Royal Palace. The fine pleasure castle are now opened for the season and offers guided indoor tours every hour between 12-3pm almost every day. You can pre-book places here or swing by at every full hour.

Out in the castle’s garden, there are also park tours about the extensive work to restore the historic park. The park tours are given on Wednesdays throughout the summer on different themes and are held by participants within the project; the archaeologists, the building antiquarian, the landscape architect, the park manager and the gardeners. The park tour ‘Rosendal’s amusement park’ is given on the dates 3 May, 31 May, 28 June and 6 September at 4:30 p.m. Read more about it here!

There will also be the opportunity to take part in themed shows during specific dates. In the summer of 2023, 200 years of royal history will be celebrated at Rosendal Palace. Have the opportunity to take a look inside the Rosendal Palace and hear how the rooms were used during the Bernadotte family’s time and why the interiors look the way they do today. The themed show ‘Interior and restoration art in the past and present’ is given on June 21 (sold out) and August 23 at 4:30 p.m. To book and read more about this, click here!

Rosendal’s Garden
If you want to hang out in a nature-rich, cozy environment or are interested in cultivation, then Rosendals Trädgård is the right place! Here you can find a botanical garden that you can walk around and see vegetation. The garden cafe is a cozy place to sit down and have some food. They offer coffee and swedish “fika” or light lunches in their greenhouse. After July 5 the Herbarium Mat & Bar also has their outdoor kitchen available in the afternoons and evenings. Later this summer, there is a harvest festival on September 8-10, where they display biodynamically grown vegetables, fruit, harvest bouquets and bread from the wood-fired bakery.

Sculptures in PREKS Sculpture Park
Princess Estelle’s Cultural Foundation was founded in 2019 and has since established a permanent sculpture park in the Rosendal area. Each year, a new sculpture is presented that aims to convey the importance of art and culture to society. The first work to be acquired was ‘Hoop-La’, which was included in 2020’s acclaimed exhibition by Alice Aycock. In the following years, ‘Life Rings’ was acquired by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset and in the summer of 2022 the sculpture ‘Wind Sculpture in Bronze I’ was inaugurated by the artist Yinka Shonibare CBE. In May, the newest addition was also added, the sculpture Osagd, created by Charlotte Gyllenhammar.

Between 30 May and 1 September there are free guided tours in the park. These start daily at 1pm and are offered in Swedish as well as English.