Karlaplan

The myth of the violent, plundering Vikings (with horned helmets) has been circulating for a long time. But what do we really know about life in Nordic countries one thousand years ago?

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Nature & Society

The Viking World – the world’s largest Viking exhibition

Ice skating on lakes, or the sea, is wonderful. This activity is suitable both for beginners and for experienced ice-skaters. The meeting point is at the lake Källtorpssjön, situated only 15 minutes from Stockholm. Depending on your previous experience, you&#x27;ll be taught the basic technique, or you&#x27;ll go skating straight away. After about an hour, you will go inside for some well-deserved hot or cold drinks. Sauna and winter bathing are available if you feel up for it.

Ice Skating on Lake Källtorpssjön

After the world premiere in Stockholm 2016, Mamma Mia! The Party has had full tavernas in both London and Gothenburg. Over a million guests later, the party returns to Tyrol again.

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Opera & Show

Mamma Mia! The Party

The ice in Kungsträdgården lies shiny and smooth. It&#x27;s time to lace up your skates and fill up your thermos with something hot and tasty. It is free to skate – and you can rent skates for a fee.

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Ice Skating in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm City

Wellbeing

Ice Skating in the City Center

Popular events

Waldemarsudde

From autumn 2024 the Swedish public will be invited to discover Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig (1830 – 1902). Hertervig’s expressive work will be shown in an intriguing dialogue with works by the well-known Swedish painter Carl Fredrik Hill (1849 – 1911). The exhibition has been created in collaboration with Stavanger Art Museum and the Nordic Institute of Art.

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Culture & Arts

Hertervig – Hill

Millsegården

Vienna in 1900 was a melting pot of creativity. Composer Gustav Mahler underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, while Gustav Klimt’s life partner Emilie Flöge founded the Schwestern Flöge fashion salon and was the subject of Klimt’s iconic work ‘The Kiss’. In this atmosphere, the artist and craftsman collective Wiener Werkstätte was established.The exhibition is a cooperation between the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, and the Millesgården Museum.

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Wiener Werkstätte at Millesgården

Thielska galleriet

The name of this exhibition is from the first line of a poem by Pär Lagerkvist in 1919, which captures a key aspect of Nordic painting at the turn of the century, when dusk and dawn were popular themes in all forms of art. This fascination for the singular Nordic light is reflected in Ernest and Signe Maria Thiel’s art collection, which is dominated by symbolist and national romantic mood paintings of landscapes, often from the home regions of the artists.

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Most Lovely at Dusk

Trekanten

The exhibition Miss Clock (into the groove) explores time through the lens of digitalization and society, while examining questions of sex and gender in connection with technology - particularly ”speaking technologies.” The work investigates how our relationship to the human voice, and its role as marker of identity and interpersonal trust, is being radically transformed.

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Anna Lundh – Miss Clock (into the groove)

Last-chance exhibitions

T-centralen

With drums and trumpets and some other festive instruments, the Süperstar Orkestar comes to their favorite stage to kick off the Party Year 2025. The veterans of Swedish Balkan brass music go all out and give everything to raise the emotional level to the maximum and swing until it goes black, when the classics from the party music of the Balkans are mixed with new aces from the band&#x27;s versatile repertoire.

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Folk, Traditional & Country

Süperstar Orkestar

Stureplan

Enjoy an evening with Swedish jazz music, featuring classics and hidden gems from the 1960s, including works by Jan Johansson, Lars Gullin and more. With a mix of iconic melodies and vibrant performances, it&#x27;s a night of music you don’t want to miss. Performers: Ulla Fluur (vocals), Leo Lindberg (piano), William Nilsson (guitar), Johan Tengholm (double bass). For more information, visit the link below.

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Jazz & Blues

Jazz in Swedish

Skanstull

Vi open the new year with the complete Slavic Dances by Antonín Dvořák in their original arrangements for 4-hands piano, with Peter Friis Johansson and Bengt Forsberg.

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Classical & Art Music

Friends of Chamber Music at Allhelgonakyrkan

Globen

Cameron Mackintosh&#x27;s Les Miserables: The Arena Spectacular, with our foremost international musical star Peter Jöback in the lead role as Jean Valjean, is coming to the 3Arena in Stockholm.

Les Miserables: The Arena Spectacular

Live music in Stockholm

Celebrate New Year's Eve in Stockholm

Odenplan

Four-act theatre, a three-course dinner and an exciting murder mystery. Between each act a dish is served and between act 3 and act 4 all the spectators have to guess who they think is the murderer. Everything is performed by real actors. In Theater Scarlet&#x27;s all-time best-selling murder mystery, you get to follow the drama surrounding Samuel Af Ugglas, his family and the East India Company during the 18th century. The ticket includes a 3-course dinner served between the 4 acts.​

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Theater

Murder Mystery Theatre with Dinner

Kungsträdgården

»Experiencing Michael Cavanagh’s solid, measured and sonorous staging at the Royal Swedish Opera is a joy, « wrote Dagens Nyheter after the premiere in 2023 of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd. The sold-out production is now making an eagerly awaited comeback.

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Opera: Sweeney Todd

The beloved cult film - live at Maxim! &quot;Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…&quot; And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude, and over a dozen other fairy-tale misfits, and you&#x27;ve got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there&#x27;s one on hand...and his name is Shrek.

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Shrek the Musical

Näckrosen

Golden Hits invites you to a colorful &quot;floor-filler&quot; show together with pop artists of the future. a popsicle with 100 percent recognition in the songs, pure joy – and party!

Pop-tastic

Pop-Tastic!

Theatre and film

Östermalmstorg

Welcome to WITCHES, an exhibition that contains both truth and dream. Through elaborate set designs, images and videos the visitors will experience the witch trials that took place in Sweden 1668-1676. Who were the women accused of witchcraft, and why were they burnt at the stake?

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WITCHES

Nordiska museet/Vasamuseet

In The Arctic – While the Ice Is Melting, you encounter the history and the future of the ice, and above all the people who live in the Arctic today – through objects, photos, design, artwork, films and projections. You can also discover Sami objects in an Arctic and Nordic context.

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The Arctic – While the Ice is Melting

Museiparken

The National Museum of Science and Technology has created an experience where you can not only try your favorite games and explore the game history, but also step into, and let yourself be immersed by, games. The Play Beyond Play exhibition occupies over 1,000 square meters of gaming fun! Join in on a journey through game history!

Play Beyond Play

Östasiatiska museet

Step into the world of games and experience how they have united people for generations! From ancient classics such as Mancala and Chaturanga to retro arcade games and early game consoles, this exhibition provides an insight into the amazing history of gaming! Stockholm Toy Museum invites you to try games from different eras and feel how they have entertained and brought people together. Bring family and friends, share the joy of gaming and discover the game that has shaped generations!

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Generations of Games

Current exhibitions

Christmas markets

Ropsten

Try fencing in an international enviroment i central Stockholm. We have groups for all ages. Send us an e-mail to book your free class: info@diffencing.se

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Fencing for beginners - free classes

T-Centralen/Central Station or Rådhuset

Guided ice skating on natural ice. For those of you who are confident skaters and have previous experience of ice skating either on natural ice, ovals, rinks, inline skating or cross country skiing skating-style, this is the perfect winter day tour for you!

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A Day on the Ice - Guided Tour

Central Station, T-Centralen or Rådhuset

There is nothing quite like having the waterways in the ‘Venice of the North’ to yourself. During autumn and winter in Stockholm, when the water is cold but not frozen and busy with ice skaters, the waterways are left quiet and peaceful which is just perfect for an invigorating paddle. Join a 4-hour winter city paddle in the capital of Scandinavia and enjoy a hearty lunch. Stockholm Adventures provides you with a dry suit (to keep you warm), gloves and pogies (paddling gloves).

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Stockholm Winter City Kayak Tour

Skansen

Winter Run Stockholm consists of one or two laps on a roughly 5-kilometer course. About 1 kilometer of the race takes place inside Skansen, with the rest winding around Skansen on Djurgården. The route is illuminated with fire performers, torches, lanterns, and fire baskets to create a vibrant and cozy atmosphere.

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Races & Competitions

Winter Run in Skansen

Sports & Wellbeing

T-Centralen

Välkommen till en stadsvandring som tar dig genom hjärtat av Stockholm, där Dan Andersson levde och skapade. Följ med på en resa genom 1900-talets början och upplev de platser som formade en av Sveriges mest älskade poeter. Från Centralstationen där Dan Andersson anlände full av förväntan, till Klara kvarteren där han mötte både frihet och tragik. Längs vägen får vi en djupare förståelse för hans liv – hans möten med andra författare, kampen mot fattigdom och kärleken till Märta Larsson.

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Dan Andersson i Stockholm: Kultur och Krogar (bara på svenska)

T-bana Slussen, uppgång Götgatan

The Society Par Bricole shows the Bellman house from the 1700s with the rooms where Bellman lived from 1770 to 1774 and wrote most of Fredman&#x27;s Epistles. Our cicerone Hans Hjelmqvist tells us about Bellman and Stockholm in the 1700s when Par Bricole was formed. Our troubadour Hans Nystedt also performs some of Bellman&#x27;s songs and epistles. Admission: 150 Swedish Krona. Children under the age of 15 years - free.

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Visit Bellmans house

Tensta

Together with the artist Sara Bayrami, we learn about color and text. No prior knowledge is required. The workshop is for you who are between 15 and 25 years old and who have a functional impairment or functional variation. Sara Bayrami is an artist, illustrator and cartoonist who works with color and form and creates images of nature, music, politics and everyday life. Registration:anna-stina@tenstakonsthall.se The workshop is part of the project Studio Funk – contemporary art for everyone.

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Studio Funk: Workshop Illustration and drawing- Sara Bayrami 5 feb

T-bana Gamla Stan

City walk in the oldest parts of Stockholm. Meet some of the most interesting historic personalities from Stockholm history. The story of their life tells a lot of the time they lived in.

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History of Stockholm - city walk

A guided tour in Stockholm

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Avicii Arena in Stockholm, the world's largets spherical building. Exterior shot, nigh time.

Avicii Arena

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Fat Tuesday – the day of the Semla 2025

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MXCO

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