Äventyrs – The Adventure Museum

Äventyrs – The Adventure Museum in Stockholm showcases inspiring stories from around the world through film, photography, and documentation, aiming to reignite the spirit of adventure.

Planning your visit

Aventyrs in Stockholm is devoted to exploration and adventure as human activity — expeditions, first ascents, polar journeys, ocean crossings, wilderness travel — told through film, photography, equipment and the accounts of the people who undertook them.

Sweden has a strong tradition here, from Nordenskiold's navigation of the Northeast Passage and Andree's fatal balloon attempt on the North Pole to contemporary mountaineers and sailors, and the museum draws on that alongside international material.

The emphasis falls on storytelling and on the motivations behind expeditions rather than on equipment display, and the museum runs a lecture programme with adventurers speaking about their journeys, which is arguably the strongest part of the offering.

Exhibitions rotate, so the specific content varies.

For visitors, it offers something distinct in a city otherwise full of art, history and design museums.

Bookable options are entry tickets. Checking the current exhibition and lecture schedule is worthwhile. Current availability is listed below.