Culture - make the most of your stay in Stockholm!
Stockholm is a city with a great variety of events, there is something for everyone. See the famous Cullberg Ballet at the House of Dance, enjoy the indoor Horse Show at the Ericsson Globe or experience the Salvador Dalí exhibition at the Moderna Museet.
Here is a selection of events during your stay in Stockholm that we hope you will enjoy, or search for specific events on Stockholm's visitor guide.
The Millennium phenomenon
Millions of people have already read the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. In February 2009 the first Millennium film will have been released in Sweden and in several countries in Europe.
The leading characters in the books live and work in Södermalm, the southern part of the inner city, were the film was made, too. Since these locations have attracted many fans, the Stockholm City Museum has developed a city walk following of the Millennium Trilogy.
Millennium Tours
On Saturday 28 November, we will take you to Mikael Blomkvist's home, the Millennium Magazine, Lisbeth Salander's luxurious apartment and many other locations that you will recognise from the books. During the tour we will also provide you with information are arranged in English and French and start at 10 am. A full tour takes about 2 hours.
Stockholm Metro
Sometimes called the world’s longest art gallery with its 91 stations decorated by approximately 150 artists and with several stations where temporary art exhibitions are on display. The artwork is often presented in what are fascinating settings from an architectural point of view.
This tour starts at T-Centralen, home to the first pieces of art back in 1957. We will then continue to the newest line - the blue line - where all the stations are so called “cave stations”, embedded in the city’s bedrock at between 20 and 40 metres below ground. Here artists and architects have worked closely together in creating very special underground stations.
On Saturday the 28th November, escape the cold and join us for this fascinating underground tour. We will run two tours, each lasting for approximately an hour and a half; one at 10:00 and one at 13:30.
To register please email: sylva.hagman@stadshuset.stockholm.se
Remember to specify which of the two tours you would like to participate in.
The Ecoteque at Kulturhuset Stockholm
How smart is it to be climate-smart? What does environmentally friendly mean? How do culture and climate relate to each other? The Ecoteque is a café with exhibitions and events combining exciting design with a climate-smart content.
Since its opening in 1974 Kulturhuset has offered culture in all imaginable shapes. See exhibitions of photography, art and design, visit the library, the shops or have a coffee. Last year Kulturhuset had 3 million visits and we can promise you that no matter who you are, where you come from, whether you are old or young there is something here for you.
For more information visit the website.
Cullberg Ballet at the House of Dance
Cullberg Ballet is making an entrance on House of Dance’s small stage for the first time, working together with the Canadian choreographers Benoît Lechambre and Crystal Pite in a smaller and more intimate format in the performance Xspectacle. 25-27 November at 19:00.
For more information visit the website.
Die Walkürie at the Royal Opera
Die Walkürie a drama in three acts, featuring the struggle for love and power between gods, elemental beings and humans. The music is the most beautiful and easily accessible of Wagner’s mighty foursome. 27 November at 18:00.
For more information visit the website.
Nutcracker at the Royal Opera
Nutcracker, a ballet in two acts. This version of the famous ballet Nutcracker has been transformed into the very Swedish children´s story by Elsa Beskow; Petter´s and Lotta´s Christmas. To Tchaikovsky´s well-known music, experience a classical and successful ballet filled with Christmas inspirations and magic. 28 November at 15:00 and 18:30.
For more information visit the website.
The Pearl Fishers at Folkoperan – A unique Opera House
The Pearl Fishers is a romantic opera by Georges Bizet. It is a gripping story with beautifully seductive music. Folkoperan is unique in Sweden. The unconventional productions, the closeness of the audience to the stage and the intimacy of the auditorium are among its distinctive features.
Internationally, Folkoperan is renowned by opera buffs throughout the world for its entertaining, fascinating and even spellbinding productions. 27 November at 19:00 and 28 November at 20:00.
For more information visit the website.
Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli at Moderna Museet
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is one of the most popular 20th century artists, a universal artist with a passion for science, fashion, film, design and popular culture in general. This exhibition experiments with the exhibition format itself by incorporating a contemporary artist, Italian Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971).
Moderna Museet has one of the world’s best collections of art, spanning from 1900 to the present day. The art collection includes key works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as new acquisitions by contemporary artists.
For more information visit the website.
The Vasa Museum
The Vasa is the world’s only surviving 17th-century ship and one of the foremost tourist sights in the world. The ship is displayed in a purpose-built museum in Stockholm.
The Vasa Museum collection consists of the Vasa itself and all of the objects that were found with the ship.
For more information visit the website.
Stockholm City Museum
The Stockholm City Museum is the largest municipal museum in Sweden. The collections contain a material heritage from times past in Stockholm. They give the visitor a perspective on the city’s complex history and are an indispensable source of knowledge.
For more information visit the website.
Caspar David Friedrich – Nature Animated and Friedrich, Eight Contemporary Commentaries
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is nowadays regarded as one of the towering figures of German art. As the great individualist of 19th-century landscape painting, he added a new character and poetic depth to his motifs. In Friedrich’s world of suggestive imagery, the great questions of existence are represented in the encounter between man and nature.
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s premier museum of art and design. The collections comprise older paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art, and applied art and design up to the present day.
For more information visit the website.
Vägval (“Choices”) at the National Museum of Science and Technology
This is an interactive exhibition about energy and climate that opens on 28 November.
The National Museum of Science and Technology, which is Sweden’s biggest museum of technology, has a national charter to be responsible for preserving our technological and industrial history cultural heritage.
For more information visit the website.
Stockholm International Horse Show at Ericsson Globe Arena.
Welcome to the biggest indoor equestrian event in the world in terms of spectators per day. Concept: The highest international standard, in both competition and entertainment.
Competition: World Cup in dressage, International show jumping and World Cup Four in Hand driving.
For more information visit the website.