For families

Welcome all families! The museum has exhibitions and activities for visitors of all ages. Free admission for children and youth aged 0-18.

Holiday fun: Fortune telling with tin

Witches, wizards, seeresses, and wise women—people have always been curious about the future. Now, you have the chance to melt a piece of tin and ponder what it might reveal about your destiny. Free for children!

As the exhibition WITCHES settles into the Swedish History Museum, this winter break is all about fortune-telling and magic. We’re reviving the old New Year’s tradition of melting a piece of tin to glimpse what the coming year might hold. Gather around a fire in the museum’s courtyard for a cozy and atmospheric moment.

Watch your tin solidify into an intriguing shape in cold water. Reflect on it yourself, or seek the help of a museum educator to interpret the form. Do you think it might hint at your future? Perhaps a new friend, an adventure, or something else exciting awaits…

Practical information:

Make sure to dress warmly for this outdoor activity.

Cost:

• Free for children.
• Adults need to purchase an entry ticket to the museum.
• Accompanying adults can melt their own tin piece for a fee of SEK 30, subject to availability.

Times and Tickets:

• 11.30 AM – 12.15 PM: Tickets available at the info desk on the same day. Limited spots.
• 1.30 PM – 2.15 PM: Reserve your spot via Tickster.

Pre-booked tickets must be collected at the information desk no later than 30 minutes before the activity starts. Unclaimed tickets will be released to other visitors.

Alternative activity in bad weather: Fortune telling with runes

If the weather is too poor for outdoor gatherings, you’ll get to explore the magical world of runes instead! Create your own fortune-telling runes—mystical Viking-era letters with fascinating meanings. Learn how runes can provide clues about the future or simply enjoy using your imagination and symbols for fun.

The same times and tickets apply as for the tin fortune-telling activity. The decision on which activity will take place will be made on the same day.

Book your ticket here

See our family exhibition

What similarities are there between us and people who lived a long time ago? Maybe there are things that unite us as humans through time and space? Together through time is a new immersive, playful exhibition for children and families with hands-on activities, a film experience, and real objects from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.

About the exhibition

Children’s trail

Follow our clever children’s trail (in Swedish) and discover objects shown in the SVT’s series The History of Sweden. Search for puzzle pieces that together build something truly amazing! Drop in, no booking required.

Self-led activities at the museum

In English

• Listen to the audio guide The Lonely Lion in the exhibition The History of Sweden. Recommended from 5 years of age.
• Explore our exhibition Prehistories. With the activity book The History Detectives, you can solve the Hunt for the Wishing Stone. Medium difficuty level, takes approximately 15 minutes.

In Swedish

• Become a history detective with the Adventure Backpack! Solve mysteries in the exhibitions The Gold Room and Prehistories. Recommended from 7 years of age, in the company of an adult. The activity takes approximately 40–50 minutes.
• Travel through time and space with the Time Traveller, based on the Swedish TV-show Arkeologens dotter. Medium difficulty level, takes approximately 40 minutes.
• Explore our exhibition Prehistories. With the activity book The History Detectives, you can solve the Hunt for the Wishing Stone. Medium difficuty level, takes approximately 15 minutes.
• Follow our clever children’s trail and discover objects shown in the SVT’s series The History of Sweden. Search for puzzle pieces that together build something truly amazing!

All materials can be borrowed or hired at the information desk.

For English audio guide offerings for adults, please see here.

Practical information for your visit

The Swedish History Museum is a child-friendly museum. Adults in the company of children of all ages are welcome!

Strollers and prams

During weekends, school breaks and the summer season when we tend to have more visitors, we kindly ask you to park prams and strollers outside the museum entrance. There is a wire to which you can lock the stroller on the plaza.

There is an elevator adjacent to the stairs at the main entrance to the museum. It is easy to get around with a pram in most of the exhibitions. For fire safety reasons, no prams are allowed in the exhibition The Gold Room. If you do not want to use the pram in the museum, there is a pram parking in the entrance hall which is overseen by the museum staff. However, please note that the museum is not responsible for parked prams. A limited number of prams are available for loan at the museum, please ask the staff at the information desk.

Changing tables

A changing table can be found in the handicap restroom just by the entrance hall.

Food and drink

The museum’s restaurant Rosengården has a children’s menu, offering pancakes and meatballs. The staff with gladly help you warm baby food jars.

Lunch room for packed meal

The museum has a room on the basement level where you can eat and drink food you’ve brought with you. Please note that on weekdays the room may be occupied by school groups. You are also welcome to have a picnic in our large courtyard when weather permits.