Garden Days at Skansen

Flowers and fashion unite in a new and grand exhibition at Skogaholm Manor in Skansen. From 6–7 and 9–14 September 2025, the manor’s 18th-century rooms are transformed into exquisite stages where floral splendor and fashion history intertwine.

There is both a summer garden with stone terraces and a kitchen garden with growing beds framed by fruit trees and berry bushes. Learn more about what grows here and watch as we demonstrate fruit tree pruning.

Step into the shade under the apple trees and admire the apple orchards. Take part in our apple exhibition, where we will tell you about the apple varieties of old times.

Meet our gardeners who will show and tell you about the wonderful roses and how to care for them. Members from StockholmsRosen will also be on hand to provide tips and inspiration for all rose lovers. At 13.00 and 15.00, you can join Skansen's rose expert on a tour.

Did you know that Skansen's first herb garden was established back in 1892? Come by and explore what grows here and get answers to your questions about herbs! Also take the opportunity to taste different kinds of tea and collect seeds.

In 1724, King Frederick I urged that tobacco plantations be established throughout the country, and soon many backyards in the cities began to be used for “tobacco farms.” Watch our gardeners harvest and dry tobacco!

Swedish heritage plants have a long cultivation tradition, interesting cultural history and may in the future become very important in plant breeding. Here you can buy heritage plants and bulbs to take home!

Step inside and experience 18th-century cooking and housekeeping. Food is prepared from produce from the garden and the aromas fill the kitchen. Also take the opportunity to see how the servants lived: from the kitchen maids' simple den to the housemaid's chamber.

With the forest as a model, we have created a place for thought, recreation and reflection – a forest garden. Here you will hear about biodiversity and about the wildlife in the garden. The Stockholm County Nature Conservation Society shows and tells about how you can promote biodiversity on your balcony, allotment or in the garden.

Learn more about plant dyeing! Stop by as we show you how to dye textile materials using natural dyes.

At Skansen there are two Allotment huts with gardens from the 1920's and 1940's On site you can chat with persons who actually own one themselves.

Watch and ask your questions to Skansen's gardener who is making a wicker fence.

How did people wash their clothes and textiles in the past? Skansen's village team will boil soap and show and tell you how to wash linen and cotton with birch ash and soap.

Skansen's village team shows how to make rope from flax and hemp, using a rope making course.

Experience linen weaving up close! Study the loom closely while learning about weaving and the importance of linen – the fabric woven on site will traditionally be used for towels.

See how boats were built in the past, row a classic hand-built Eka, build your own bark boats and launch them in the pond. Or why not try tying knots, turning juniper sticks or just hear about the role of clinker-built boats in the development of Swedish society?

Carving is one of humanity's oldest crafts. What can you create from wood, using a knife as a tool? Come and try your hand at carving together with Skansen's experienced craftsmen and the famous craftspeople Molly Sjöstam and Julia Kalthoff!

Craft, play and play with beans and peas. Here you can learn more about Skansen's different cultural heritage varieties, see raised plants and play party games that let you squeeze and feel different bean and pea varieties,

A selection of tools and household items for the garden and outdoors are on display here – from classic garden tools to enameled mugs, plates and bowls from Kockums. The hardware store is on site during the days to show, tell stories and answer questions.