The best specialized museums Sweden

ABBA The Museum is a museum dedicated to the famous Swedish pop group, from its creation in 1970 to its split in 1983, and its comeback in 2021. Since its opening in 2013, it is a hit, with nearly 300,000 visitors per year! You can discover costumes, instruments, golden records and other objects that belonged to the group, but also exact replicas of the places where ABBA lived and worked to take you closer to the life of the quartet. More than a simple museum, the place has been designed to offer a true immersive and interactive experience. The multiple devices available to visitors are regularly renewed to remain at the cutting edge of technology. During your visit, these devices will allow you to virtually try on the band's costumes, sing songs, create music, play quizzes and even slip into the skin of a fifth member of the band by performing on stage alongside the avatars of Björn, Agnetha, Benny and Frida. Finally, a new space takes you behind the scenes of the quartet's latest project: ABBA Voyage, a series of futuristic concerts in the form of holograms. For an even more interactive experience, rent an audio guide and let the band members tell you their stories!

Good to know: reservations on the site are highly recommended and only credit cards are accepted in the entire museum (including the store and restaurant).

The purpose of the Volvo Museum is to preserve the history of Volvo and to make it known to the public. The museum is operated by the Volvo Car Group and the Volvo Group. Since the museum opened in 1995, the collection has grown steadily to showcase this national pride. In addition to the exhibits in the building, the museum has also built up a comprehensive archive of historical documents and images, providing a unique insight into the history of what has become one of Sweden's most successful companies.

The Textile Museum is located in the Textile Fashion Center, a large creative center that brings together students, professionals and visitors in one place dedicated to fashion. The first floor is dedicated to Borås' special connection to textiles, including an immersive exhibition that takes you on a tour of an old factory. Upstairs, you can discover temporary exhibitions of textile art and thematic retrospectives. A vast and very rich place, which will make you discover the textile under various facets!

The F15 Flight Museum is an aviation museum located in Söderhamn. It is housed in a former Swedish Air Force base, known as F15, which was active during the Cold War. The museum houses a collection of historic aircraft, some of which were used by the Swedish Air Force. The museum also organizes temporary exhibitions and activities for visitors, such as guided tours and flight simulators.

Opened in 2014, Guitars - The Museum is located on the top floor of the old school on Vasagatan Street in central Umeå. Featured are hundreds of guitars from the 1950s and 1960s, including some very rare models that belonged to music stars, brought together here by two passionate brothers. If you like rock'n'roll or blues, or if you are a passionate musician, we recommend that you take a look at this museum like no other! The whole history of an era and a culture that deserves to be preserved!

Drottningatan 85 was the last home of Sweden's most famous author. He moved there in 1908. He also rented a room on the seventh floor of the same building where he installed his library, which contained about 6,800 volumes. It was in the Blue Tower, so called because of the color of the staircase, that he wrote his last play The Great Road in 1909. 1910 and 1911 were the years of the "Strindberg quarrel", a quarrel over some 500 political articles in which he sided with the working class. And it was here that he received, on his 60th birthday, his first massive tribute from the working classes. Later, when it became clear that he would not receive the Nobel Prize, a collection was organized, which raised 45,000 SEK, and constituted a kind of anti-Nobel Prize of the people. This money was given to him on his ^63rd birthday, and on the evening of January 22, 1912, the workers of Stockholm formed a torchlight march from Odenplan to Tegnérslunden, with 20,000 people in attendance. Strindberg appeared on his balcony, lifted his top hat and gave thanks. He died a few months later, on May 14, and 60,000 people accompanied him to his final resting place. Strindberg's apartment has been reconstructed from eyewitness accounts and photographs of the time. For the sake of preservation, a visit to the apartment requires that you put on slippers to protect the original parquet floor.

Discover this brand new museum, opening in June 2023, dedicated to the history of the Holocaust through the lives of seven survivors who came to live in Sweden during the Second World War. The exhibition features a wealth of personal objects, such as suitcases and identity cards. You'll be able to interact with a Holocaust survivor thanks to artificial intelligence, although answers are currently only available in Swedish. By visiting this museum, you will be contributing to the duty of remembrance, by passing on the story of the Holocaust.

Housed in the city's oldest preserved industrial building, which in turn housed the Crown's great bakery, an arms store and then a wood store, you'll find one of Europe's leading museums dedicated to artistic creation in all its forms. The Museum of Performing Arts (Scenkonstmuseet) introduces you to the world of theater, dance and music, both on stage and behind the scenes. The museum holds a vast collection of 50,000 objects, the oldest dating back to the ^16th century, all on three floors. The collection includes musical instruments, stage models, costumes, objets d'art, theatrical props and puppets. The exhibition space extends over three floors and includes a large area for performances, as well as a studio and showroom. As well as offering a glimpse into the world of the performing arts, the museum's interactive exhibits allow visitors to become part of the experience by taking to the stage with a virtual dance band, trying on imaginative theatrical masks or mixing their own music. There's also a café-restaurant with a pleasant terrace running the length of the building, as well as inside. A living, innovative and interactive museum, a must-see. A moving tribute to one of the most remarkable human characteristics: artistic creativity.

Entering this museum is like stepping into a magical cave, where an extraordinary world awaits you. Some 40,000 objects make up its collection, including toys, comic books... The museum has been designed so that nostalgic grandparents and grandchildren can share their memories and common passions for toys. Guided tours are available on site, but advance booking is essential. Bring the whole family to explore the incredible world of toys!

In the ^18th and ^19th centuries, the prisoners in Gävle prison had a painful experience of isolation. At that time, the inmates were confined to their cells 24 hours a day, with only twenty minutes of escape time in the open air gaols. Since 2004, a museum has been bringing prison life to life. The museum's exhibition leads into the cells where mannequins, objects found on inmates over the years and interactivity bring these places back to life.

The museum exhibits one of the finest collections of locomotives and wagons illustrating the entire history of the Swedish railroads. The collection includes more than 300 vehicles from the early ^19th century, including the famous Prince Augustus locomotive, which is still the oldest locomotive in service. But what will delight the children (and no doubt some others) is the possibility to climb into the driver's cab of a steam locomotive!

In 1844 the brothers Johan and Carl Lundström invented matches in Jönköping. The first production was phosphorus matches, but it was not until 1853 that matches as we know them today began to be produced, following an invention by the chemist Gustav Erik Pasch. This museum retraces the modern history of matches, as well as the way they were made, and exhibits boxes, models, books... since their invention.

Of all the things you discover in Sweden, snus seems to be one of the strangest Swedish practices, which may explain why they've turned it into a museum. Why not learn more about this way of consuming nicotine, banned everywhere else. One area is devoted to snus, another to matches, and another to the founders of snus. Exhibits include objects and photographs. You'll be done in less than an hour!

During your visit to Gamla Stan, take the time to stop off at the museum, which features exhibitions on democracy, human rights and equality for all. Each of them will encourage you to reflect and make connections between past and present. There are both permanent and temporary exhibitions. The only drawback is that everything is in Swedish. A library with a few books in English is available for consultation.

The Shipwreck Museum is a truly innovative museum! Featuring rusty objects through interactive technologies, you can dive to the bottom of the Baltic Sea to discover the remains of our civilization, swallowed by water and time. Between immersion and curiosity, we can lie on our backs facing the ceiling, as if we were also at the bottom of the Baltic. At the same time, we are invited to study the objects found, or to enter a virtual reality simulation of the skeleton of a ship dating from the eighteenth century ...

It may seem surprising to find a museum dedicated to spirits in a country where alcohol has been a state monopoly since 1955. This unique venue offers an immersive and educational experience on the history, production and influence of alcohol through time. Through its permanent and temporary exhibitions, let yourself be transported by the scent of hops and discover the traditions of spirits production. You can also take advantage of the bar, which offers tastings of artisanal beverages. Skål!

The Wooden Horse Museum is a small museum with the feel of a souvenir store, where you can contemplate a gigantic collection of small wooden horses originally known as dala horses. Dala horses were children's toys originating in the Dalarna region of Sweden. This typically Swedish object can be found everywhere: on Christmas trees, as a table decoration, printed on a pillow, etc. Take this opportunity to bring one of these horses home as a souvenir!