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: Make Your Own Rune Charms
Come and create mysterious Viking letters in the museum’s workshop! You’ll also learn how runes can be used to uncover clues about the future—or just have fun with imagination and symbols.
The activity is free for children – adults need a museum ticket.
Dates
Saturdays and Sundays from April 26 to May 11 (also Thursday, May 1)
Times and Tickets
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM: Pick up a ticket at the information desk on the same day.
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM: Reserve your spot via Tickster.
Link to Tickster.
Both children and adults need a ticket, with a maximum of one adult per child. Reserved tickets must be scanned at the information desk no later than 30 minutes before the activity starts. After that, tickets will be released to other visitors.
Together through time is a playful exhibition for children and families. Photo: Daniel Gustafsson, The Swedish History Museum/SHM
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.
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.
The Lonely Lion audio guide for children
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.