Easter at Skansen

Celebrate Easter at Skansen
Skansen is the best place to celebrate Easter. Here you can learn more about Easter traditions, visit the Easter market and make decorations for your Easter twigs.

Easter week is celebrated at Skansen in different ways. On Maundy Thursday children all over Sweden dress up as witches to deliver Easter letters and receive candy. On Skansen they can make their own brooms and pretend they're taking off for Blåkulla. In some of the houses the Easter feast is prepared and traditions explained and on the Bollnäs square there is an Easter market selling birch twigs with the traditional decorations, sweets and food.
Daily April 13–22

Easter traditions in the houses 
In the 1870´s Good Friday was a day of silence and mourning. Learn more about that in the Oktorp Farmstead. In the Skånegården you can experience an Easter feast from the 1920’s. The Ironmonger’s family is preparing for an Easter Day dinner typical for the 1930’s. 10–16
Easter decorations 
Create your own Easter letter and trimmings for the Easter twigs (30 SEK) at the Forestry Center. 10–16
Stories and tales (in Swedish) 
Listen to stories and tales in the Back Mats Cottage 11–13 and 14–16

Pony riding 
Children can go for a ride on the Skansen horses. Starts at the Bredablick tower. 12–15, SEK 50.

Meet the hens
at Skåne Farmstead, 12:30

April 18–22, 10–16

Easter market 
Visit the Easter market where you can buy handicrafts, Easter specialities, Easter candy eggs and more. 

Face painting 
Become an Easter Witch, Easter Bunny or Chicken at the Forestry Center.

Single days

Easter Concert 
in the Seglora church April 21 at 14

Folk music 
is performed in the Älvros Farmstead April 20–22, 12–14
Make the broom for Maundy Thursday 
On Maundy Thursday all children dressed up as witches and magicians have free entrance. Outside the Forestry Center they can make a broom that will enable them to take off for Blåkulla. April 18, 10–16