Worth a Detour
Skansen
The world's first open-air museum, opened in 1891, with old Swedish farmhouses, crafts and Nordic animals.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Djurgårdsslätten 49–51, 115 21 StockholmDirections
- Getting There
- Tram 7 or the ferry to Djurgården.
Why Go
Some 150 buildings from across Sweden have been moved here, staffed by people in period costume working as glassblowers, bakers and printers. Its zoo has moose, bears, wolves and reindeer.
Midsummer and Christmas are celebrated here in the old way.
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