Swedish History Museum — Attraction in Stockholm

The staff was fantastic and friendly. We walked through the museum 5-6 times to find all the cards, runes, and wishing stone. We got a diploma and a fun memory together. It's made for kids but actually harder than I expected 😂. There was another section that recommended 30 mins, but we didn't get to do it. The runes were recommended 15 minutes, and that was okay, but the hidden stones were hard to find. We actually went to ask the receptionist who gave us several hints. We didn't have enough time at the museum and we spent 4-5 hours. There is English and Swedish available on everything. It's really interactive and fun, more for children, like weaving a sail for a ship, creating pictures, role playing, puzzle making, and running messages. It's all free. Other families came by, and they went through all the detective work step by step. Staff said it's mainly school trips and tourists of about 400 visitors a day. So, actually, I consider that still busy, especially when there are so many museums in Stockholm. Of course, we spent longer because we read almost every part of the viking area, and learning more about the history and Greek mythology in much more detail than what you would know from cartoons/ marvel films etc. I believe most people wouldn't know unless you were in education in the Scavandian countries or chose to study it. There was an interactive section where you can see the world and different realms like vahalla, etc. You can see the importance of the golden apples that keep the...

I want to bring to you an important matter. The museum was fine. I particularly liked the exhibition on the history of Sweden and the viking Age. Maybe the History of Sweden could be better but ok... I m really into history so I wanted to see the whole museum, I still had the Golden Room around 16.40 (20 min to the closing time), I knew I wouldn't be able to properly see it, but I still went. But the very rude gard just didn't let me in, she said the museum is closed and she even threatened to throw me away if I don't leave. Verbally threatened. I decided to come again the next day, during the last hour, explain the situation and hopefully get some understanding, I mean I expected them to see their mistake, and to allow me see one exhibition only, the Golden room, that s all I wanted to see. I think it's absurd to make me pay again, for 45 min, especially since I showed them the ticket and even more, because they don't have a student discount, so I already paid the full price. But no, another rude lady, receptionist, was totally insensitive and made me pay... I want to say that a few days before the Royal palace let me continue my tour of their museum another day, without any problem, they didn't ask for money again.. And it's not the only museum...a lot of places have that policy. I feel museums should be about culture and education, not about making money on the back of already...

A Full Days Adventure

Our recent trip to Scandinavia to see and learn more about the Vikings and their culture had to include a trip to the Historiska Museet in Stockholm. Our tour company originally thought we would only need a couple of hours, but we convinced them that we would need all day, and we did.

We had visited this museum several times when we lived in Stockholm 30 years ago, but things are much nicer now. Better displays, better organization, better explanations, just better all around. And the change to allowing photographs made it much nicer as well.

Putting much of the valuable jewelry and such in "the vault" was a stroke of genius. It not only gets across the fact that the items displayed were of exceptional value (then and now), it allows the visitor to see the tremendous amount of stuff the museum has to study and compare across time and space.

While the bulk of our time was spent there and in the Viking exhibit, the other parts of the museum are just as well laid out and explained. We were lucky enough to be there when the courtyard was full of recreationists with hands-on activities for children of all ages. There were Viking games, archery, fiber arts, and you could even make your own "Viking bread" and they would cook it for you in their clay oven.

A thoroughly pleasant day in an amazingly...