Spårvägsmuseet — Attraction in Stockholm

This museum is great! It was much bigger than I expected. There are so many interesting things to see, read, and watch. There are four floors filled with very old vehicles, photographs, and all kinds of memorabilia. There were some unexpected installations, but I won't share details so that you can be surprised.

There are lots of interactive things for kids to play with. You could spend the whole day here with kids, but it was extremely interesting for adults as well. We walked around for two hours and didn't even read or watch all of the information presented. We could have easily spent twice as long.

The café was really nice and had good options. We arrived at the museum around noon and the café was pretty full, but by the time we sat down for fika, about 2 hours later, it was not busy at all. You can sit at a regular table or at the bar that faces one of the train cars. There is even a tiny train that goes back and forth along the edge of the table in front of you. Also, the train that kids can ride comes by in front of you.

The train for the kids is really cute, they even go through a big tunnel part of the way. Among all the fun things for kids to interact with, there is a place upstairs where they can race to see if they can go as fast as a train. Great way to use up their energy before nap time.

We went on a Sunday and it wasn't crowded. There was no music playing throughout the museum, or in the café, which I really liked. It was a nice atmosphere.

The gift shop was just okay. Nothing special, but you could probably find something you like if you really want a souvenir. They had some cute trains for kids. I got a postcard with a cool old photo on it.

There isn't a whole lot of parking in the area...well, there are many spots to parallel park, but they were mostly full when we were there. You will either get lucky or maybe have to walk a bit. It really depends on the day and time of day.

It's well worth the low ticket price. It was fun to step back in time for the day. We really enjoyed seeing all the old advertisements still hanging inside the trains and busses. And for my husband, it was crazy to see some things that he grew up with are now in a museum. You will see things from as old as the early 1800s all the way up...

Nice place with a lot of possibilities for improvement - crowded over and over with children, felt rather like a playground than a museum.

Unfortunately, I would not recommend it if you are adult and actually interested in the vehicles and their history. There's a lot of information but not the right atmosphere to actually get to read all of it or listen to the elements one can listen to.

Why do I think so? We have been there after Christmas. The museum is nice, it is not a lot more than what you see on the pictures and not too large. Also, it's only a few vehicles that one can actually step into - and if so, there's a glass wall to prevent people from demolishing them. There are some interactive elements, but they have been kept forever with queues standing there, mainly parents with small children. Once we were patient and stood there, it was ment to be a tram driving experience, which was an actual tram cockpit and screens in front to have a driving feeling. It was not actually interactive, no reaction to any of the buttons or handles.

What would I do? As visitor, try to catch days when kindergardens and schools are open to reduce the number of children around you! As museum: My suggestion would be for them to have some adult opening hours or even one day per week. It's really not enjoyable when it's loud and you have to queue everywhere even just to read one of the panels because children running forth and back and pushing touching everything. It would be even possible to open some more of the vehicles during these adult opening hours without the risk of children playing...

This is not so much a transport museum as a kindergarten. I may be a grumpy old man, but this fancy modern museum is the epitome of all that is wrong with a lot of museums today. The professional curators and "experience" makers have sanitised the life out of many museums and this "experience" is no exception. There are a handful of interesting items of stock, all placed really badly in positions that make them hard to photograph or examine. It's not that there is no space in the building, its huge, and much of the space is wasted or given over to children's play areas. Then there is the largely dire "interpretation" and "interactivity" component which wastes further space. No doubt the place has won all sorts of awards for its striking, bold and clever "story telling" but it really does no favours to what should be the key exhibits which come over as an afterthought squashed into dark corners. I visited on a Saturday and the place was overrun with screeching children hurtling around like so many pinballs. The place is worth a visit to see some interesting historic rolling stock, and as an example of how such things should not be done. It also looks like the number one kindergarten of choice for Stockholm so if you have pre-school infants that need exhausting it looks like the...