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Stockholm Exhibitions This Winter: Sara-Vide Ericson at Liljevalchs and Aage Gaup
Sara-Vide Ericson's Arctic canvases and Aage Gaup's sculpture lead the Stockholm winter season. These are the shows that repay an afternoon, and the days each one lets you in free.
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Sara-Vide Ericson painted inside a container on the deck of the icebreaker Oden. The canvases she brought back from the Arctic Ocean now hang at Liljevalchs konsthall on Djurgården until 28 February. Aage Gaup's show at Moderna Museet closes earlier, on 24 January, so see that one first.
Sara-Vide Ericson at Liljevalchs
DRIFT is in Liljevalchs+, the newer wing at Falkenbergsgatan 3, where the galleries are plain and lit from above. There are large paintings, installations and material she carried home from the expedition. It opened on 13 November and runs to 28 February.
Entry is 165 kr, or 135 kr for students and pensioners, and under-18s go free. Mondays are free for everyone. Most Stockholm museums close on Monday, so if you land on one, start here. Open 11:00 to 17:00, and until 20:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Ylva Snöfrid's The House of the Muses is on in the older building until 10 January.
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Aage Gaup at Moderna Museet
Moderna is the low pink-brick museum on Skeppsholmen, with pyramid skylights in a row along the roof. The Sami artist's Sculpting a Return, or Hábmet máhccama, is on from 7 November to 24 January.
Two more shows are up at the same time, so give the building a couple of hours. On Floor 4, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian's kaleidoscopic mirror mosaics hang with her collages and rugs. The autobiographical pieces she called Heartache Boxes are there too, until 28 February. Jan Håfström's The Lost World runs to 14 March.
Tickets are 170 kr at the door and 160 kr booked online, free for under-18s. On Friday evenings between 18:00 and 20:00 everyone gets in free. Open 10:00 to 18:00, until 20:00 on Tuesday and Friday, closed Monday. In midwinter the light has gone by 15:00, and there is a café facing the harbour for when it does.
Gingerbread next door at ArkDes
ArkDes shares a forecourt with Moderna, in the old naval drill hall at Exercisplan 4. Gingerbread House 2026 fills its big timber-floored hall from 27 November to 10 January, and this year the theme is the future. Architects, bakers and children all enter side by side, and you can vote for the public's prize. It is free, and it keeps the same days and hours as Moderna. Go in the first fortnight, while the icing still holds its shape.
Two villas on Djurgården
Thielska Galleriet stands at the wooded tip of Djurgården at Sjötullsbacken 8, a Jugendstil villa with open water on three sides. Lars von Trier has curated Descendant from the works that shaped his films. Vilhelm Hammershøi's Five Portraits from 1901 sits at the centre, with pieces by Munch, Gauguin and Strindberg around it. It closes on 24 January. From November to April it opens 12:00 to 17:00, Tuesday to Sunday, so plan a short afternoon. Adults pay 160 kr and under-19s nothing.
Tram 7 from the city centre stops close to Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde at Prins Eugens väg 6. The winter show, The Wonderful Color, gathers the 1930s Gothenburg colourists, among them Åke Göransson and Inge Schiöler. It runs from 14 November to 28 February. Your ticket also includes a guided walk through the prince's public apartments. It is 170 kr, free under 19, and the museum takes card only. Open 11:00 to 17:00, Thursday to 20:00, closed Monday. Come for the galleries, as the terraced gardens are bare in winter.
Beach pictures at Nationalmuseum
A show about sea bathing in a Stockholm January is a deliberate joke. Nationalmuseum is the palace-like building on the Blasieholmen quay, facing the Royal Palace across the water. To the Sea! follows the rise of coastal holidays from the 1870s to the mid-20th century. It does it through paintings, advertising posters and old swimwear, with loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d'Orsay. It runs to 7 February.
One 160 kr ticket covers the collection and the temporary shows for the whole day. The ground floor with the restaurant, shop and courtyards is free to walk around, and Thursday evenings from 17:00 to 20:00 are free throughout. Open 11:00 to 17:00, Thursday to 20:00, closed Monday. The Wilhelm Kåge and Shōji Hamada ceramics pairing is on until 28 February.
Shows open after dark
Fotografiska Stockholm is open every day from 10:00 to 23:00. In a city dark by mid-afternoon, that makes it the easiest evening out. It is in the old brick customs house on the Stadsgården quay, under the Södermalm cliffs, and the top-floor café looks across to Gamla stan. Women Behind the Camera, 1848-1968 opens on 5 December. Diana Markosian's Father, built from family photographs with the father cut out, runs all winter, and Harder Better Faster Stronger: Are Men OK? closes on 7 February. Two earlier shows come down on 29 November. Admission is 195 kr; students pay 135 kr. From 18:00 on Wednesday, two tickets cost the price of one.
Spritmuseum on the Djurgården waterfront is open daily from 11:00 to 22:00, restaurant included. Absolut Absolut traces how Absolut Vodka went from a state export project to an advertising phenomenon. There are bottles, old ads and a robot that mixes your cocktail. True Crime runs to 31 March. Entry is 190 kr and free introductory tours leave every hour. The subject matter and the tastings are for adults, so leave young children out of this one.
H&M designers at Sven-Harrys
Sven-Harrys konstmuseum is the brass-clad cube above Vasaparken at Eastmansvägen 10-12. Iconic Collaborations has garments from thirty H&M guest-designer collections, starting with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004 and ending with Wardrobe.NYC in 2026. Each room is staged around one designer. It runs until 4 April. Tickets are 195 kr and free for under-18s. The house's own art collection can only be seen on the guided tour, which that price includes. Open 10:00 to 18:00 on weekdays, until 20:00 on Thursday, and 11:00 to 17:00 at weekends.
Dance costumes at Historiska
Historiska museet on Narvavägen in Östermalm has put stage costumes among the painted altarpieces and carved saints of its vaulted Gothic Hall. Dance Legends covers how Mats Ek, Jean Börlin and Birgit Cullberg reworked old myths, and it closes on 14 February. The Viking World gallery runs from AD 750 to 1100 and includes a virtual-reality walk through a 12th-century stave church. Adults pay 180 kr and ages 0 to 18 go free. From 16:00 the price drops to 90 kr. One ticket also covers the Economy Museum in the same building, so allow longer than you think. Open 11:00 to 17:00, Wednesday to 20:00.
Nobel week lights in December
The Nobel Prize Museum is in the former Stock Exchange on Stortorget in Gamla stan, where laureate portraits travel slowly overhead on a ceiling cable. Its free light-art festival, Nobel Week Lights, runs from 5 to 13 December in the city centre and out in Tensta. Inside, Nobel Creations opens on 5 December and stays to 31 January. It shows fashion pieces made by first-year design students in response to this year's prizes. Entry is 160 kr, free under 18, and a guided tour is included every day. Open 11:00 to 17:00, Friday to 21:00, closed Monday. Come in December, because the previous show closes on 29 November and there is a gap before the new one.
Design out at Gustavsberg
Artipelag is a long black timber and glass house built onto bare granite at Hålludden in Gustavsberg. Pines and a Baltic inlet come right up to the window walls. Inner Child: Playing with Design fills it until 11 April. It runs over eight chapters of furniture, handmade objects, textiles and installations, with work by Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Gustaf Westman.
A direct bus from central Stockholm takes about 30 minutes and runs both ways at weekends. Otherwise take bus 474 from Slussen to Värmdö marknad and change to the 468, which stops at the entrance. The 468 goes once an hour, so check the times before you set out. The summer boat does not run in winter. Allow about an hour each way, and skip this if Stockholm is a one-day stop. Tickets are 195 kr, 20 kr less booked online, free under 18. Open 11:00 to 17:00, until 21:30 on Wednesday, closed Monday.
Closed days and bookings
Almost everything here shuts on Monday. Liljevalchs is the exception. Over the holidays Nationalmuseum closes on 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January, and opens 11:00 to 17:00 on 26 December. Liljevalchs is shut from 23 to 25 December, on 31 December and on 1 January, and Thielska closes for a few days around the same dates.
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Which Stockholm museums are open on a Monday in winter?
Liljevalchs konsthall is open on Monday, 11:00 to 17:00, and free for everyone that day. Fotografiska and Spritmuseum open daily too. Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum, Thielska, Waldemarsudde, ArkDes, Historiska, the Nobel Prize Museum and Artipelag all close on Monday.
When does Sara-Vide Ericson's DRIFT run, and where is it?
It runs from 13 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 in Liljevalchs+, the newer wing at Falkenbergsgatan 3 on Djurgården. Entry is 165 kr, 135 kr for students and pensioners, free for under-18s, and free for everyone on Mondays.
How long is Aage Gaup's exhibition at Moderna Museet on?
Sculpting a Return, or Hábmet máhccama, runs from 7 November 2026 to 24 January 2027. It is the shortest run among the big winter shows, so see it before the ones that stay up into February and March.
Can you see any of these exhibitions for free?
Yes. ArkDes and its gingerbread show are free, as is Nobel Week Lights from 5 to 13 December. Moderna Museet is free on Fridays 18:00 to 20:00, Nationalmuseum on Thursdays 17:00 to 20:00, and Liljevalchs all day Monday. Under-18s go free at most of these museums.
How do you get to Artipelag in winter?
By bus. A direct bus from central Stockholm takes about 30 minutes and runs in both directions at weekends; otherwise take bus 474 from Slussen to Värmdö marknad and change to the 468 for the entrance. The 468 runs hourly, and the summer boat from Strandvägen does not run between October and April.
