The guide to Easter holidays in Stockholm

At Junibacken, everyone's favourite stories come to life. Take the saga train through Astrid Lindgren's fairytale worlds, play freely in Villa Villekulla, and enjoy spring in the Moomins' play valley. Over Easter, the Pavilion is also open for Plus-Plus blocks building and Pippi Moves In is performed on the theatre stage.

There are masses of fun activities and events for the whole family at Skansen open-air museum. Meet trolls and Easter witches, experience Swedish traditions in traditional houses and farm buildings, listen to stories and music, enjoy Easter arts and crafts, paint Easter eggs in the Ukrainian way or make your own witch's broomstick. Easter at Skansen will be celebrated from 2-12 April 2026. 

There are always fun things happening at Kulturhuset for young culture enthusiasts. You can settle down with a good book in one of the children's libraries, create in the workshops, and participate in workshops and courses. During the holidays they organise fun holiday programmes.

Tolv Stockholm entertainment centre has 7,000 square meters of fun and activities such as bowling, adventure golf, shuffleboard, arcade games, table tennis and basketball to enjoy during the Easter holiday. 

The French national sport, boules, has become popular with adults and children alike and Boulebar in Liljeholmen is the ideal spot to try it out. Play under the guidance of an instructor and eat French brunch before or after the match. All Boulebar branches are open over Easter except Tantolunden.

Whether you're in the mood for bowling, billiards or shuffleboard, Ballbreaker's the place to go. Challenge family members to a match, and then relax in the family-friendly restaurant afterwards.

Take the opportunity to see Stockholm from a new perspective over the Easter holidays! You may have seen a bus cruising on the water in Stockholm, or heard the passengers cheering as the bus drives into the water? That's Ocean Bus, which organises sightseeing tours with a bus that can drive both on land and in water. During the tour, which lasts approximately an hour, you'll see several attractions, hear interesting trivia about Stockholm, and hopefully enjoy nice weather. The tour is guided live in Swedish and English, but mainly in English.

At Exit Games in the Old Town, the whole family can put their thinking caps on to solve the challenges and get released from the escape room. Choose from different themes, from Egyptian pharoahs to encounters with Al Capone, and team up with a friend or several – you can have up to six people in an escape room – and use your teamwork so you don't get stuck in the room for good…

The Easter holiday at the Royal Opera is both fun and cultural. The programme is full of special holiday activities such as trying out dance and opera, costume fittings in the wardrobe, and guided tours. The grand building adds a magical touch to the whole experience. 

Forget everything you think you know about the world; at the Paradox Museum, everything is put to the test! Explore several rooms filled with illusions and paradoxes that challenge your perception of what's real and what's not. The museum is suitable for both children and adults who want to stimulate their creativity and learn more about paradoxes.

VREX is a 300 square metre virtual reality facility equipped with the latest technology. Immerse yourself in worlds you've never encountered before and play games like Desert Storm and Zombie Apocalypse.

Minigolf is the activity of activities, available all year round and just as fun for both big and small. At Swing by Golfbaren, an indoor course, green minigolf courses combine with nostalgic decor and black-and-white photographs from Manhattan, all inspired by the prohibition era and the early years of minigolf. Pair a game with something tasty to eat in the restaurant, and your Easter holiday is complete.

Klättercentret is organising Easter holiday camps at all its Stockholm locations. The camps are suitable for both beginners and children who have climbed a little before. They adjust the level according to the children, and fill the days with lots of exciting experiences and adventures.

From 6–10 April 2026, this Nordic-Japanese rooftop restaurant is offering a sushi buffet at lunchtime. During this time, you can eat as much sushi as you can handle – a lunch that's usually just as appreciated by adults as by children. The price also includes a cinema ticket.

Tom Tits in Södertälje welcomes you to an Easter holiday full of experiments. Lift 100 kilos no matter how strong you are, create masterpieces with drawing robots, challenge each other to walk the tightrope, and feel the thrill in your stomach on the whole 40-metre long slide. Don't miss the soap-bubble show!

At Järfälla Go-Kart, both beginners and experienced drivers can challenge themselves. They have both indoor and outdoor tracks where drivers of all ages and skill levels can race against each other – there's plenty of room for overtaking for the competitive. Both tracks are open all year round; in winter, you race with winter tyres and lighting.

SK Neptun organises trial courses, day camps, and training for all levels of diving at Eriksdalsbadet and GIH-badet, where you can participate for one or more days. There will be varied training on land and in water. 

Laserfortet is home to the laser arena LaserForce, which includes a medieval castle, a large cave and full-scale tank, and Prison Island, a series of fun and challenging escape rooms. If you want to try both, choose their Marathon package, which allows you to play both LaserForce and Prison Island in under three hours.

Experience the feeling of floating completely free! Bodyflight is a thrilling activity that allows you to "fly" in the world's highest wind tunnel. Before your flight you're provided with equipment and a safety briefing, then you just enter the tunnel and fly, while your group watches. Suitable for families with children from three years and upwards, as well as groups of friends of colleagues.

The unique 17th-century ship Vasa is on display at the Vasa Museum on Djurgården. It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was recovered from Stockholm's harbour over three hundred years later, in 1961. During the Easter holidays, visitors can participate in exciting experiments related to the history of Vasa in various ways. What's the best way to load the ship? How does a diving bell work? What items were on board the ship and what were they used for? And how does a submarine actually work? You'll find answers to these questions and much more when the Vasa Museum invites you for the Easter holidays.

During the Easter break, the Swedish Museum of Technology offers exciting adventures with activities for the whole family. Join in on space adventures, try future space food, and participate in activities for children with experiments, creativity, and mysteries. Naturally, the exhibitions will be open as usual for all children on holiday and their adults.

Admire Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl's perfectly preserved art collections, and get an insight into the luxury and everyday life in Stockholm at the time, at the Hallwyl Museum. The museum was built as a private palace for the countess and her husband, and it looks exactly the same today as when they left it in 1920. During the Easter holidays, they organise dramatised guided tours where the family and servants help little Margit look for a lost snail, fru Winberg.

The Ethnographic Museum is full of play and learning. Explore the exhibition World of Fairytales, which takes you on a journey to the land of imagination. Continue on the fairy tale theme and make your own fairytale bird in the studio, where all the materials needed are available for the bird to flap its wings and don a colourful outfit. The museum also features the exhibition Yokai, which is about Japanese spirits.

At the Stockholm City Museum in Slussen, you can embark on a journey through 500 years of Stockholm's history. During the Easter holidays, you can play games from the 1700s in the gaming den or participate in a combined story time and drawing workshop for the youngest visitors.

In this 2500 square metre museum, the corridors wind deep into the rocks on the island of Skeppsholmen. The museum displays thousands of toys, comics, and other items that both children and adults recognise.

Prince Gustav usually finds ways to cause mischief at the Royal Castle during the school holidays, and now he has hidden gold eggs in the grand castle halls. Can you find them? As well as the egg hunt, there will also be family tours in the state apartments, picture hunts, and animal safaris.

Follow the post throughout Sweden, see how postmen have dressed throughout history and read exciting letters from the past. In the play exhibition Postis, you can try handling mail at all stages, and in the workshop, you can create your own Easter cards.

Experience life around the Mediterranean and meet people and objects that tell the story of the region's past and present. Listen to exciting myths, meet gods and emperors, check out artefacts such as shining weapons and strange trophies and travel thousands of years back in time to ancient Egypt. Over the holidays you can also join guided tours and the fairytale trail The Riddle of the Sphinx, helping the museum chasing an escaped sphinx back to the underworld. 

Try out things from all over the world at this museum of experiences in Globen Shopping. Look, feel, smell and taste all kinds of fascinating objects. Hold an enormous tooth fossil, stand on an Indian bed of nails, sample sweets from all over the world and challenge your vertigo with VR.

Experience Easter the Viking way at The Viking Museum. Meet Viking farmers and their crops and spices, pet the sheep, join family tours, try leather crafting, and learn more about cloth dyeing with plants. Don't miss the ride Ragnfrid's Saga.

Go hunting at the Natural History Museum and let your imagination run wild in the Creative Lab, take a guided tour and learn more about what happens in nature during spring and explore the forest with Mulle. Don't miss out on the cinematic experiences at Cosmonova or take on the challenge in the museum's escape room.

Moderna Museet doesn't just have one of Europe's foremost art collections, they also organise various types of activities. During the Easter holidays, families can attend a family tour to discover how artists and ourselves leave traces through impressions. During the tour, participants can explore printing techniques, including graphic printing. In the Workshop, the theme continues, and children can create a print diary to collect personal impressions and make a shared graphic print.

At Prins Eugen Waldemarsudde, you can explore the exhibition The Blooming – Art & Botany, and on the same theme, embroider flowers in the studio. Combine your visit with a stroll in the beautiful garden on Djurgården or a waffle at Café Ektorpet.

Visit the Edvard Anderson greenhouse and find out which plants are hidden in your Easter egg. You'll find cacao trees in the Palm Hall, whose cacao beans are used in chocolate, and sugar palms also grow here. Don't miss eating lunch or having a coffee in the Gamla Orangeriet.

It's easy to forget you're just quarter of an hour outside the big city once you enter Hellasgården nature reserve. Hire kayaks, take a sauna and walk the reserve's hiking trails. Activities for all ages and interests.

Wander around and look at the plants, sit down under the apple trees and have a coffee or take a look in the greenhouse. Rosendals Trädgård is surrounded by dreamy gardens and the café serves food made from ingredients grown in their own kitchen gardens. 
 

There are plenty of green spaces in the middle of the city where you can enjoy the coming of spring. Perhaps a picnic in the sunshine or fun in the playground?

During the Easter holidays, Artipelag invites you to a creative workshop based on Apichaya Wanthiang's exhibition January 2567. Each session begins with a family-friendly introduction in the art hall before creation takes place in the Foyer. By building layers, printing patterns, and using colour and texture, landscapes and universes reveal themselves.

There's masses to do in Hågelby park by Lake Aspen in Tumba. Check out the witches' broomstick parking lot, play bingo, grill sausages, meet the animals and dance zumba.

Celebrate Easter at Thoresta Herrgård surrounded by nature. The restaurant serves an Easter menu with a focus on sustainable cooking, and if you want to engage in activities before or after the meal, you can do Easter crafts, go on an exciting egg hunt, or visit Loftet, which is an activity room featuring billiards, shuffleboard, and darts.

Celebrate Easter in Nyckelviken with crafts, history, and tours. Nacka Local Heritage Museum will be open throughout the Easter weekend with free admission and activities for all ages. Try your hand at embroidering your own Easter decorations or join a guided tour of Nyckelviken Manor. A cosy excursion destination for both young and old in countryside surroundings.  

Steninge Bruk, around half an hour outside the city, is a renovated stone barn that used to be a glassworks. Steninge makes for a delightful day trip to eat, have a coffee and take a walk in the beautiful surroundings. The restaurant serves lunch, brunch and delicious cakes and pastries.

At Fågelbro Säteri on Värmdö, Easter is celebrated with an overnight package for the whole family. Enjoy delicious food, relaxation, and activities for both adults and children. Take a quiz walk, play table tennis or padel, or enjoy the warm outdoor hot tub and relaxation area. In the evenings, a spring-themed two-course dinner is served. The package also includes a breakfast buffet.

Take a trip to Södertälje and Sydpoolen, which is an adventure pool full of fun. Swim in exhilarating waves, slide down waterslides, relax in the hot tub, play with water toys, and enjoy other fun activities. For the little ones, there's Pigge's Lagoon, a mini adventure pool.

The archipelago is Stockholm's pride and joy and it's not surprising - there's an almost endless supply of large and small islands and skerries to explore. Many of the islands can be visited for the day.