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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?

Vikingarnas värld

Nature & Society

The Viking World – the world’s largest Viking exhibition

Gamla Stan metro station, exit towards the Old Town.

Join our daily Free Walking Tour in the heart of Stockholm! Discover the city’s history, hidden gems, and coolest stories with passionate local guides. Tours run every single day, rain or shine, and are completely tip-based – you decide the value. The perfect way to explore Stockholm in a fun, social, and budget-friendly way! Find the exact times on our website.

Free Walking Tour Stockholm

Dance, architecture, music, theatre, literature, and much more. Experience Stockholm&#x27;s diverse cultural life, as the city&#x27;s various museums, theaters, and cultural institutions open up for free, for one night. Visit Kulturnatten&#x27;s webpage for the full program and more info!

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Culture & Arts

Stockholm Culture Night 2026

T-centralen

Director and choreographer Benke Rydman is back with an entirely new production where the audience is placed on stage, right among the performers. There, they will experience life’s rollercoaster up close through dance, live music, and stage art. An innovative experience where boundaries are blurred, and togetherness sparks hope. The performance is based on the legendary music of Avicii.

Lonely Together

Theater

Popular events

Medborgarplatsen

Paranoia is a Stockholm-based art collective consisting of young artists. We have an exhibition at CAP Gallery (Tjärhovsgatan 44) between March 27th and 29th, free admission. We promise a mix of art, poetry and photography. More information can be found @kollektiv_paranoia on instagram.

Kollektiv Paranoia - Exhibition at CAP Gallery

Trekanten

In his exhibition at Färgfabriken, Mattias Bäcklin presents sculptures and drawings that take their point of departure in nature and in the processes that shape life, material, and landscapes over time. The works often engage with questions of ecological balance, change, and decay, and with how the world is in constant motion—processes that are difficult for us as humans to perceive in everyday life.

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Mattias Bäcklin - Fantomen

Globen / Gullmarsplan

New highlights are: Learn to master claw machines so you never miss out on a stuffed toy again, crash with radio-controlled cars in the latest trend from the USA. Learn how to defend yourself against elephants and crocodiles in a unique VR experience. Try lifting the world’s first laptop, smell the world’s most expensive men’s fragrance, stand at the bow of the Titanic in VR and feel how cold the water was when the ship sank, challenge your pain threshold in our LEGO Firewalk, and much more!

Upplevelsemuseet’s Fall/Winter Exhibition

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum’s collection has been expanded for the autumn and winter with the following: A multiplayer mixed reality game where you have to hide from a huge and slightly scary frog. A new VR experience where you can try flying around in a city. An improved space exhibition, featuring real moon rocks, a heat shield from Starship, and more. Of course, the popular motorized suitcases, the various robot dogs, and other classics are still part of the museum.

Autumn/Winter at Museum of the Future

Autumn and Winter Exhibition at Museum of the Future

Last-chance exhibitions

Globen

Louis Tomlinson releases an album and goes on a world tour with a stop in Sweden!

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Louis Tomlinson: How Did We Get Here?

Slussen

British post-punk phenomenon Ist Ist head to Stockholm for an exclusive show. The acclaimed Manchester band Ist Ist—one of the leading names in the new wave of British post-punk—are coming to Stockholm for an exclusive Sweden date. The band will take over Kollektivet Livet for an intimate and high-intensity performance expected to be one of the spring’s standout live experiences for the country’s alternative music fans.

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Ist Ist

Indie & Punk

Hornstull

Joel Alme returns with the new album Gullmar Gospel, his first in four years and the follow-up to the Grammy-winning Sköt er själva så sköter jag inte mitt. Named after Gullmarsplan – a place of movement and everyday life – the album marks a new chapter. To celebrate the release, Joel Alme will take over Debaser for three exclusive nights in Stockholm.

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Joel Alme x 3 at Debaser

Follow us back to the turn of the century with three of Sweden&#x27;s most sought-after instrumentalists: Carron, Skareng and Härenstam. Tickets 160–320 SEK

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Kammarmusik: Sekelskiftets Stockholm

Classical & Art Music

Chamber Music: Turn-of-the-Century Stockholm

Live music in Stockholm

A guided tour in Stockholm

Lidingövallen

Vårmilen is the start of the cross-country season and a great opportunity to get your running year off to a flying start. The race attracts hundreds of runners who challenge the Lidingö terrain of 5 or 10 kilometers every year. (And there&#x27;s a kid&#x27;s race, too!)

Vårmilen

Races & Competitions

The Vårmilen Race 2026

On April 26, 2026, Avicii Arena will transform into a cathedral of psychedelia, dance, and brutally honest self-examination when Tame Impala finally returns to Stockholm for the first time since 2016.

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Dance & Electronic

Tame Impala - Avicii Arena

After a sold-out autumn tour in churches around the Nordic countries, it is finally time for Sara Parkman to present her biggest performance to date. On May 9, she takes over Fållan in Stockholm, ready to let her famously powerful expression fill the space and to share new music that will be released during the spring.

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Folk, Traditional & Country

Sara Parkman – Live at Fållan

Highlights in 2026 – the biggest events this year

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Tekniska högskolan

Quarnevalen is one of Sweden’s most spectacular student events, a proud tradition of joy and creativity since 1910. Students from across Stockholm design and build their own creations and parade them before an audience of half a million spectators. It’s the birthplace of innovation and future leaders, even the King once took part as a builder! Quarnevalen is more than a celebration; it’s an essential part of Stockholm’s cultural life.

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Quarnevalen 2026

The Walpurgis Night celebration begins at about 7.30 pm with a spring speech and beautiful songs from the choir. For more information, visit the link below.

Gålö Havsbad

Walpurgis Night at Gålö Havsbad 2026

Fridhemsplan

Hosted by DJ Leo.B, it’s time once again for the colorful annual Hat Parade at Mälarpaviljongen. It will be a celebration filled with music, glamour, and joy, featuring a rainbow lottery to benefit Regnbågsfonden. A popular celebrity jury will select the best hat of the evening. Everyone will gather at the far end by the DJ booth.

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Hat Parade

Kista

Welcome to a huge car boot sale / flea market in the Kista shopping mall parking garage! So come and find your bargain among almost 150 car boots full of stuff! One Sunday a month during the winter season the shopping malls Eastern parking garage turns into a busy market place for second hand goods.

Car boot sale in Kista galleria parking garage

Markets

Join the City Museum on a journey through five hundred years of dance, where you can both see historical dance and also take the chance to try it yourself! Featuring the association Historiedansarna. <a href="https://stadsmuseet.stockholm/en/news-and-calendar/calendar/2026/05/history-dancers/">Info in English.</a> Note: While the presentations are given in Swedish, English-speaking guests are also welcome to participate in the dance and ask questions.

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History Dancers at the City Museum (in Swedish)

Stockholm Södra Station

Gstaadfilm - The Mountain Film Festival and only festival in the world for films by artists and with the famous Golden Cow of Gstaad. We have decided to bring the 20th anniversary of our festival, to Stockholm, Sweden. Our guest speaker on the evening will be one Björn Alvén - Swedish International Sports Business Personality, tennis player and friend of Björn Borg.

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Film

Gamla stan

On 18 April, we’re open until midnight and invite you to an inspiring evening where we explore ideas that have changed the world. Listen to a talk with psychologist Björn Hedensjö, build a roller coaster, join a guided tour and challenge someone to a game of chess. During the evening DJ ZLMN (Markus Salman), and Nassim Mehran will play and the Bistro serves small dishes, drinks, and late‑night hot dogs.

Stockholm culture night at the Nobel Prize Museum

Frihamnsporten

Welcome to an evening of live music and conversation celebrating the composer, poet and artist Lars-Gunnar Bodin. During the event, we will present material from Bodin’s archive, and composer Anne Pajunen will perform a specially commissioned work inspired by him. You will also meet Mats Lindström, Head of Studio at the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), for a conversation about Bodin’s artistic work and his significance for Swedish electroacoustic music. In Swedish.

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An evening about Lars-Gunnar Bodin

Discover the music genre glitch – where digital sounds, electronic music and sound art meet. During the evening, music writer Johan Jacobsson Franzén and musician Andreas “Mokira” Tilliander will talk about the album Cliphop, the book Mokira: Cliphop, and how computer music was created around the turn of the millennium. Free admission. No booking required.

Mokira: Cliphop – talk and lecture

Stockholm based hardrockers Blessed Insanity are hosting their world premiere party and releasing their debut single, along with a full set live performance. Blessed Insanity is an energetic melodic heavy metal band.

Blessed Insanity world premiere and release party

Hard Rock & Metal

Malmvägen

Vernissage Queer Tattoo History / Stories and film A body to live in, a documentary about Fakir Musafar and queer bodymod history. Tattooer Sara Swanson has interviewed queers who got tattooed during the 70s and 80s, and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano has portrayed the storytellers. Times where tattooing and queerness were taboo, shameful, and/or forbidden AND an act filled with resistance, power, and desire. Director Angelo Madsen will present the film and his important research in an online talk.

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Film Screening + Vernissage Queer Body Modification

The documentary film War on Art depicts one of the least visible but most crucial fronts of the war: the struggle to save Ukraine&#x27;s art and cultural heritage from destruction, looting, and annihilation. Before the screening, we will meet the film&#x27;s director andrzej miękus in conversation with Helene rånlund, former director of the Swedish National Museums of Military History, about the role of cultural heritage in times of war and its significance for memory, identity, and the future.

War on Art – when cultural heritage becomes a front line

Nordiska museet/Vasamuseet

This year Nordiska museet deep dives into the theme dreams and sleep. The Great hall fills with dreamlike music, listen to talks about creatures of the night and nightmares, have your dreams interpretated, drink a night cap and listen to bedtime stories. In our picture gallery it&#x27;s the last chance to see the suggestive and dreamlike motifs in the exhibition Metamorphoses.

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Culture Night at Nordiska museet

Hötorget

Aurelien Trigo stands at the intersection of jazz virtuosity, classical innovation, and electronic pop and hip-hop production, forging a distinctive path as a musician, composer, and Multi-Platinum producer. Free entrance.

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Jazz & Blues

Live Jazz @Haymarket: Aurélien Trigo

Vällingby

The greatest flea market experience: Huge car boot sale with app. 200 cars selling second hand stuff and lots of reuse / crafts events! If you&#x27;re anything into vintage, antiques and second hand - don&#x27;t miss this very special day! For one day the second hand world take over Åregaraget parking garage at Vällingby shopping center. Make sure you have a lot of time on your hands because you&#x27;re gonna want to stay a long time!

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Super Duper Car Boot Sale Vällingby

Discover films from around the world as Stockholm International Film Festival Junior takes over the city from 23–29 March – an inspiring week filled with powerful stories for children and young people aged 6 to 19. Screenings take place at several cinemas across Stockholm, while parts of the programme are also available online, making it possible for even more audiences to take part. Expect everything from award-winning international films to competitions and engaging encounters that open the door to the world of cinema, all with young perspectives in focus.

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Stockholms Filmfestival Junior 2026

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Swedish

Aerial shot of Stockholm on a summer day. Visible are the ditricts of Södermalm, Gamla stan and Norrmalm.

Aerial shot of Stockholm

Guide to Stockholm's districts

A skateboarder jumps high above an indoor ramp while other people watch in the background. The movement is dynamic, with bent knees and the board held close under the feet in mid-air. The image conveys speed, courage, and the energy of a skatepark setting.

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The crowd in front of the main stage at the Stockholm Culture Festival. Night. A pyrotechnic display lights up the stage.

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The Viking World – the world’s largest Viking exhibition

Free Walking Tour Stockholm

Stockholm Culture Night 2026

Lonely Together

Last-chance exhibitions

Kollektiv Paranoia - Exhibition at CAP Gallery

Mattias Bäcklin - Fantomen

Upplevelsemuseet’s Fall/Winter Exhibition

Autumn and Winter Exhibition at Museum of the Future

Live music in Stockholm

Louis Tomlinson: How Did We Get Here?

Ist Ist

Joel Alme x 3 at Debaser

Chamber Music: Turn-of-the-Century Stockholm

Highlights in 2026 – the biggest events this year

Stockholm Culture Night 2026

The Vårmilen Race 2026

Tame Impala - Avicii Arena

Sara Parkman – Live at Fållan