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Swedish culture

Get to know the Swedish culture and its society based on equality and individualism. Swedes also have a profound respect for integrity.

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Guest are sitting at a long table during the Nobel banquet.

Gäste sitzen während des Nobelbanketts an einer langen Tafel.

Nobelbankett 2017, Stockholm

Les invités sont assis à une longue table pendant le banquet Nobel.

Banquet Nobel 2017, Stockholm

Gasten zitten aan een lange tafel tijdens het Nobel-banket.

Nobelbanket 2017, Stockholm

Nobel Banquet 2017, Stockholm

The Nobel Prize – over a century of innovation

December sees the Nobel Week Lights festival and the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, followed by the elaborate Nobel Banquet. Here is all you need to know.

Couple in a living room

Experience Sweden from home

Even if you’re unable to travel to Sweden at the moment, due to the coronavirus pandemic, you can discover the richness of Swedish culture from afar. Indulge in Swedish films, literature, music and art without leaving home. Heighten the experience by trying some classic recipes and styling your home like a Swede.

Sami handcraft leather and pewter bracelets on a reindeer pelt.

Sami handcraft

Sámi handicraft

If you didn’t already know it the Sámi people who live in Lapland in the very far north of Sweden, are the original Swedes. They can trace their roots here back to the Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago.

The Göteborg Opera

Culture in Gothenburg

The highlight of the cultural year in Gothenburg is the 6 days of the Gothenburg Culture Festival in August.

An old red painted wooden house with a sod roof. A women is standing at the entrance of the house.

Ein altes rot gestrichenes Holzhaus mit Grasdach. Eine Frau steht am Eingang des Hauses.

Haus der Autorin Cajsa Warg, Borgarhuset, Wadköping

Une ancienne maison en bois peinte en rouge avec un toit en terre. Une femme se tient debout au niveau de l'entrée de la maison.

Maison de l'auteure Cajsa Warg, Borgarhuset, Wadköping

Een oud rood geschilderd houten huis met een zodendak. Bij de ingang van het huis staat een vrouw.

Auteur Cajsa Warg's huis, Borgarhuset, Wadköping

Author Cajsa Warg's house, Wadköping

10 places to visit in Sweden that are connected to inspiring women

...and why you should visit them during your next trip to Sweden.

10 places in Sweden connected to inspiring women

Skate park

Top 5 cultural attractions in Malmö

In Malmö you can find anything from impressive street art, to a prominent art museum and a cemetery so well-designed it took decades to finish! Here are five Malmö must-visits if you’re into Scandinavian design, architecture and culture.

Explore Sweden with The Curious Collection

The Curious Collection travelled to Malmö, Skåne, Gothenburg and West Sweden - here&#x27;s their story

The backs of a man and woman gazing out over the Öresund bridge and a speed boat in the water.

The Öresund Bridge

My Swedish Heart, a road trip through Sweden

"When I think about Sweden... There's a countdown in my heart..."

Hiking in the forest

Films from Sweden

In three short films, discover Swedish nature through the people who live, work and breathe it.

Harbour of Gothenburg

Water world

Swedes have a close relationship with water. We enjoy it, use it and even live on it. At least that is true for the three major cities. Although there are significant differences in attitude…

View of colourful rooftops and houses in Gothenburg.

View over the rooftops in Gothenburg

Gothenburg and West Sweden with The Curious Pear

We sent Issy and Meg from ‘The Curious Pear’ on a short break to Gothenburg and West Sweden and asked them to share their experience with us.

Jämtland in winter

Nordic light

Winter in Sweden means short days and icy temperatures. But winter as we know it is far from just hibernation – it is a time when we take advantage of our unique geographical circumstances.

Next to a lake with lush forest around, there's a traditional red cottage and a small red guest house.

Traditional red cottage

The Swedes and their summer house

Us Swedes are a strange lot. We enjoy feeling a bit miserable. This isn’t necessarily painful; instead it’s often more a bittersweet sensation of homecoming. A general feeling of melancholy acts as a simple cure for all of life’s frustrations.

Several white terraced houses with flat black roof, from the functionalism era, seen from the side.

Typical architecture from the functionalism era – the “Per Albin-houses” in Stockholm

At home with the Swedes

The concept of folkhemmet, home for the people, is central to Swedish society and design. Born nearly a century ago, its ideas of equality, functionality, solidarity and everyday beauty are still in the heart of Swedish design and architecture.

Meet the Original  Hipsters

A thousand years before the first sourdough was set to ferment in the trendy neighbourhoods of Stockholm, crispbread bakers walked from farm to farm and baked up the rye harvests. We went looking for the origins of the modern hipster in the Swedish countryside.  Written by Peter Hammarbäck

A small cottage with flowers growing up around the window.

Södra Mellby, Skåne in Southern Sweden

Lobster and Swan explores Malmö and Skåne

Lobster & Swan describes Sweden as happy, welcoming and inspiring. Find out more about their experience of Malmö and Skåne…

A man and a woman face each other sitting on a hilltop with a city below as the sun sets.

Storytravelers in Sweden

Sweden, a little bit different

We sent some travel enthusiasts to Sweden and asked them to share their experiences with us. Scroll down to follow them on their trips around Gothenburg and West Sweden.

Lifestyle

A door is half opened. It has 'K Wallander' written on it.

The home of Kurt Wallander in Ystad, Skåne

Wallander’s Ystad

Inspector Wallander has made Ystad famous around the world.

Two people are hiking along the hills above Fjällbacka and the west coast archipelago in the background.

Fjällbacka in West Sweden.

Crime fiction West Sweden

Murder and mystery are in the air on the west coast of Sweden, at least in the books of Swedish crime writers Camilla Läckberg, Åke Edwardsson and Ann Rosman.

A woman is sitting on stone steps outdoors, reading a Stieg Larsson book in English.

Reading Stieg Larsson

Swedish crime fiction and Nordic noir

Swedish crime fiction books, TV series and movies are global hits. The settings and crime scenes are all here in Sweden.

Restaurang Kvarnen, Stockholm

Stieg Larsson and Millennium

The Millennium trilogy is a series of internationally famed books written by posthumously published Swedish author, Stieg Larsson.

Literature

Green northern lights above a pine forest in Sweden.

Northern Lights

Natalia Brzezinski - CEO of Symposium Stockholm and Brilliant Minds

”Freedom”, says Natalia Brzezinski. ”Swedes. Sometimes I think they don’t know how lucky they are.”

Journalist Anna Bergholtz is standing with her guide dog outside a restaurant in Stockholm old town. There is snow on the ground.

Anna Bergholtz outside Under Kastanjen

Anna's top Stockholm cafés, restaurants and cultural hotspots

Anna Bergholtz is a journalist and lecturer, and is blind. These are her favourite cafés, restaurants and cultural hotspots.

Anna's top Stockholm cafés and restaurants for people with visual impairment

A mountain range in Padjelanta with peaks, valleys and cabins.

Padjelanta National Park

Renata Chlumska - Adventure athlete

Adventure athlete who became the first Swedish woman to climb Mount Everest and the only person in the world to circumnavigate the lower 48 States of the United States by own power. Renata travels the world but her base is Jönköping, in the middle of Sweden.

Aerial of the Scandes mountain range with bare rock mixed with glaciers.

Scandinavian mountains

Christoffer ”Wisslaren” Collin – photographer

Christoffer &quot;Wisslaren&quot; Collin - the Swedish photograher who tries to catch beautifiul things with his camera.

Two laughing women are sitting on the stairs to a cottage in the archipelago. In the background you see the sea and an small island.

Summer holiday

Live like a local!

New initiatives that encourage people to “live like a local” are popping up all over Sweden.

Borgholm Castle, Öland

Alexander Stutterheim - creative director of Stutterheim

When Alexander Stutterheim grew up in Nybro, close to Kalmar, on the east coast of Sweden, nature was like a gigantic outdoors room where you could play as much as you wanted.

Thierry no 1 from NÄVER SAY NÄVER

Stockholm, a design city – interview with artist Aia Jüdes

We asked Aia Jüdes, an expert in high end handicraft, subcultures and art, to share her best places to visit in Stockholm.

A woman is standing on the street outside an Acne store in Stockholm. Racks of clothes can be seen through the window.

Marina Kereklidou, in front of Acne Archive in Stockholm

“The people are what make Stockholm cool”

Fashion designer Marina Kereklidou knows her way around Stockholm. This is her personal guide to the most stylish spots in the Swedish capital.

Annica Waara stands on a frozen, snow-covered lake, holding one of her paintings with a reindeer motif.

Art by Annica Waara

Paints from nature

With the spectacular backdrop of a frozen ocean, Luleå-based artist Annica Waara holds up one of her favourite paintings to the camera.

Stefan Löfven and his wife Ulla

Former Prime Minister of Sweden lists his top 5 things to do in Swedish nature

Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden 214-2021, lists “throwing sandwich” as one of top ﬁve things to do in Swedish nature.

A winter landscape with snow, trees and a frozen lake.

Inspiration from nature

Shaped by winter

Sweden may be a cold and dark place during winter, but is that it? Stockholm-based writer Jonna Dagliden Hunt explores the opposite, how Swedes not only learn to survive but thrive during the coldest and darkest season.

Local people of Sweden

Music

Get to know the Swedish culture

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Swedish culture

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The Nobel Prize – over a century of innovation

Experience Sweden from home

Sámi handicraft

Culture in Gothenburg

10 places in Sweden connected to inspiring women

Top 5 cultural attractions in Malmö

LifestyleLifestyle

Explore Sweden with The Curious Collection

My Swedish Heart, a road trip through Sweden

Films from Sweden

Water world

Gothenburg and West Sweden with The Curious Pear

Nordic light

The Swedes and their summer house

At home with the Swedes

Meet the Original Hipsters

Lobster and Swan explores Malmö and Skåne

Sweden, a little bit different

LiteratureLiterature

Wallander’s Ystad

Crime fiction West Sweden

Swedish crime fiction and Nordic noir

Stieg Larsson and Millennium

Local people of SwedenLocal people of Sweden

Natalia Brzezinski - CEO of Symposium Stockholm and Brilliant Minds

Anna's top Stockholm cafés and restaurants for people with visual impairment

Renata Chlumska - Adventure athlete

Christoffer ”Wisslaren” Collin – photographer

Live like a local!

Alexander Stutterheim - creative director of Stutterheim

Stockholm, a design city – interview with artist Aia Jüdes

“The people are what make Stockholm cool”

Paints from nature

Former Prime Minister of Sweden lists his top 5 things to do in Swedish nature

Shaped by winter

Swedish culture

General

The Nobel Prize – over a century of innovation

Experience Sweden from home

Sámi handicraft

Culture in Gothenburg

10 places in Sweden connected to inspiring women

Top 5 cultural attractions in Malmö

LifestyleLifestyleView all

Explore Sweden with The Curious Collection

My Swedish Heart, a road trip through Sweden

Films from Sweden

Water world

Gothenburg and West Sweden with The Curious Pear

Nordic light

The Swedes and their summer house

At home with the Swedes

Meet the Original Hipsters

Lobster and Swan explores Malmö and Skåne

Sweden, a little bit different

LiteratureLiterature

Wallander’s Ystad

Crime fiction West Sweden

Swedish crime fiction and Nordic noir

Stieg Larsson and Millennium

Local people of SwedenLocal people of SwedenView all

Natalia Brzezinski - CEO of Symposium Stockholm and Brilliant Minds

Anna's top Stockholm cafés and restaurants for people with visual impairment

Renata Chlumska - Adventure athlete

Christoffer ”Wisslaren” Collin – photographer

Live like a local!

Alexander Stutterheim - creative director of Stutterheim

Stockholm, a design city – interview with artist Aia Jüdes

“The people are what make Stockholm cool”

Paints from nature

Former Prime Minister of Sweden lists his top 5 things to do in Swedish nature

Shaped by winter

LifestyleLifestyle

Local people of SwedenLocal people of Sweden