Guided Tours in English

Christmas offers many traditions that have looked different at different times and in different social classes. Some of this you can experience at Kulturen in Lund. We start with mulled wine and saffron bun and then the guide takes you on a tour.

In the Blekinge farmhouse, the Christmas table is set and we see how Christmas was celebrated with the wealthy farmer Carl Olsson in 1815. We then enter the Thomander family's bourgeois home. There, Christmas is celebrated in the 1840s with the year's novelty – the Christmas tree! Finally, we go to an apartment in the Workers' Housing where Ninne and his family celebrate Christmas in the 1930s. From the radio, you hear Uncle Sven and his “Dance around the tree”.

• Time: 90 minutes

• Price: 7,500 SEK for a group of up to 20 people

• Languages: Swedish, English, and German

• Language supplement: 250 SEK for English and German

• Can be booked: any day during the museum's opening hours and evenings during weeks 48–51.

• If you are a larger group than 20 people, we can offer you two tours simultaneously.

Why is firewood thrown through the door at the Olsson family's yard? Have you heard of a Christmas goat? How do you eat the priest's hair? And do you know what the maid Anna uses a cannonball for?

Now you have the chance to compete in our quiz about traditional Christmas items. We start with mulled wine and saffron bun. Then we visit three of the houses in the open-air museum with our guide who tells about the people who have lived in the houses and about objects used both for preparations before Christmas and during the celebration. You also get the chance to compete against each other and learn a lot about Christmas traditions past and present.

• Time: 90 minutes

• Price: 7,900 kr

• Number of people: max 20

• Language: Swedish, English, and German

• Language supplement: for English and German 250 kr

• Can be booked: every day during the museum's opening hours and evenings during weeks 48–51.

• If you are a larger group than 20 people, we can offer parallel programs.

Have you never been to the Museum? Do you want to know more about the open-air museum and the houses here? Then we recommend this tour.

After a short introduction to the museum's history and its colorful founder Georg Karlin, you are taken on a tour of the park. There you get a taste of some of the exciting stories about our houses and the people who once lived in them. How did the famous priest and member of parliament Johan Henrik Thomander and his family live in the 1840s? What did the house of a wealthy resident of Lund look like in the Middle Ages? What was life like in the countryside and what is actually a poor box?

After the tour, there is an opportunity to go inside and look at the houses on your own. Our houses represent a wide spectrum of society as it once was. The houses have been inhabited by people from different social classes, both in the city and the countryside and at different times.

• Time: Choose between 45 min or 60 min

• Price: Weekdays daytime, 1 500 SEK for 45 min, 1 700 SEK for 60 min. Weekdays evenings and Saturday/Sunday during museum opening hours 2 400 SEK for 45 min, 2 800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fee applies during museum opening hours, security cost applies when the museum is closed.

• Number of people: max 25 people

• Language: Swedish, English and German

• Language supplement: for English and German 250 SEK

• Can be booked: weekdays and weekends during museum opening hours, and evenings.

• The tour is also suitable for wheelchair users.

Visningen ger en introduktion till friluftsmuseet och några av dess historiska hus. Samtidigt gäller det att lyssna noga, damma av historiekunskaperna och använda magkänslan, för den här guiden har en räv bakom örat! Klarar ni att finna de fem felen i berättelsen?

• Tid: 45 minuter

• Pris: Vardagar dagtid 1 500 kr för 45 min, 1 700 kr för 60 min. Vardagar kvällstid samt lördag/söndag under museets öppettid 2 400 kr för 45 min, 2 800 kr för 60 min. Entréavgifter tillkommer under museet öppettid, vaktkostnad tillkommer när museet är stängt.

• Antal personer: Max 25 st. Om ni är en större grupp kan vi erbjuda parallella visningar.

• Språk: Svenska, engelska.

• Språktillägg: för engelska 250 kr.

• Kan bokas: Alla dagar under museets ordinarie öppettider, samt kvällar.

The body is something we humans share, no matter what time we have lived or live in. But how has the view on hygiene and health changed through different times?

Join us on an unusually intimate journey through history! The tour takes you to some authentic home environments in the Culture's open-air museum and lets you get up close to the people who lived there. The tour provides insight into Sweden's development over the past centuries but also perspectives on our own time.

• Time: 45 or 60 min

• Price: Weekdays daytime 1,500 SEK for 45 min, 1,700 SEK for 60 min. Weekday evenings and Saturday/Sunday during the museum's opening hours 2,400 SEK for 45 min, 2,800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fee applies during the museum's opening hours, security cost applies when the museum is closed.

• Number of people: max 25 persons

• Languages: Swedish, English, and German

• Language supplement: for English and German 250 SEK

• Can be booked: every day during the museum's opening hours, and in the evenings. If you are a larger group than 30 people, we can offer parallel tours.

Would you like to tell your customers, foreign guests, or employees about Lund? Then you can book a tour that tells the fascinating history of the city.

The exhibition Metropolis – Lund and the Middle Ages begins in the late 900s, when belief in the Nordic gods began to be abandoned in favor of Christianity. People began to move to what would become known as Lund. Lund was part of the Danish kingdom and became an important religious center during the Middle Ages. We tell about the powerful Lund, but also about how life unfolded for ordinary people. What did the inhabitants work with and what crafts existed in the city? We tell about pilgrimages and the vast international contacts that Lund had. We touch on various saints and hear about some life stories.

Join a tour and follow the city's development from the 900s to the 1600s, through objects that medieval people surrounded themselves with. In the exhibition, we display a rich treasure of objects that Culture's archaeologists have unearthed in Lund for over 130 years.

• Time: 45 or 60 min

• Price: Weekdays daytime 1,500 SEK for 45 min, 1,700 SEK for 60 min. Weekdays evenings and Saturday/Sunday during museum opening hours 2,400 SEK for 45 min, 2,800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fee applies during the museum's opening hours, security cost applies when the museum is closed.

• Number of people: max 25 people

• Language: Swedish and English

• Language surcharge: for English 250 SEK

• Can be booked: weekdays and weekends during the museum's opening hours, as well as evenings.

In the outdoor museum, there are houses from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. We visit some of these and tell about the people who lived here.

What was life like for the Andersson family in the 1930s in the Workers' Residence? What was it like to grow up in the Thomander professors' family? How did people work, eat and sleep in the prosperous farm from Blekinge? The tour provides an exciting and varied picture of people in different times and in different social classes.

• Time: Choose between 45 min (2–3 houses) or 60 min (3–4 houses).

• Price: Weekdays during the day, 1,500 SEK for 45 min, 1,700 SEK for 60 min. Weekdays evening time and Saturday/Sunday during the museum's opening hours 2,400 SEK for 45 min, 2,800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fees apply during museum opening hours, guard cost applies when the museum is closed.

• Number of people: max 25.

• Language: Swedish, English and German.

• Language supplement: for English and German 250 SEK.

• Can be booked: weekdays and weekends during the museum's opening hours, as well as evenings.

Join us for a spooky tour among our houses and exhibitions!

Hear the guide tell exciting stories about murders and hauntings. Whose are the heavy steps in the Bourgeois House? What really happened that dark evening in the area on September 7, 1829, and is there really a murdered archbishop in the basement of the Dean's House? You'll find out all this and much more if you book a tour! If you dare, of course....?

• Location: Kulturen in Lund

• Duration: 45 or 60 minutes

• Price: Weekdays during the day 1,500 SEK for 45 min, 1,700 SEK for 60 min. Weekday evenings and Saturday/Sunday during museum opening hours 2,400 SEK for 45 min, 2,800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fees apply during museum opening hours, guard costs are added outside regular hours.

• Number of people: max 25 people

• Language: Swedish

• Can be booked: every day during the museum's regular opening hours, as well as in the evening.

Do you know what a 'lysekärring' is? Have you seen a yeast wreath before? Then you have the chance to beat your colleagues in our popular object quiz!

We visit three of the houses in the open-air museum with our knowledgeable guide who tells about the people who have lived in the houses and about objects that have been used for both everyday life and celebrations. At the same time, you have the chance to compete against each other and learn a lot about how people have lived during different time periods and in different social classes.

• Time: 60 minutes

• Price: 5,800 SEK

• Number of people: max 25 people

• Language: Swedish, English, and German

• Language surcharge: for English and German 250 SEK

• Can be booked: every day during the museum's opening hours, as well as in the evening. If you are a larger group, we can offer parallel programs.

Guided tours in Kulturen's exhibitions can be booked, both in the permanent exhibitions and in the temporary exhibitions.

Check our exhibition page to see what exhibitions we have.

• Prices for Kulturen in Lund: Weekdays daytime 1,500 SEK for 45 min, 1,700 SEK for 60 min. Weekday evenings and Saturday/Sunday during the museum's regular opening hours 2,400 SEK for 45 min, 2,800 SEK for 60 min. Entrance fee applies during museum opening hours, guard cost applies when the museum is closed.

• Number of people: max 25 pers

• Languages: Swedish, English, and German

• Language supplement: for English and German 250 SEK

It is possible to book private tours of Gamlegård at Kulturen's Östarp via Kulturen's booking service, see price list below. If you want to book a school class, there is information about school tours on the page School Program.

• Tour 45 minutes
  Weekdays during regular opening hours 1,700 SEK
  Weekends during regular opening hours 2,500 SEK
  Outside regular opening hours 2,500 SEK

• Tour 60 minutes
  Weekdays during regular opening hours 2,000 SEK
  Weekends during regular opening hours 2,900 SEK
  Outside regular opening hours 2,900 SEK

• Tours in English and German
  If you wish your tour in English or German, a language surcharge of 250 SEK applies.

• We accept a maximum of 25 people per tour.

Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) was one of the most significant Swedish writers and poets of his time. During his tenure as a professor in Lund, he lived with his family in a half-timbered house on Stora Gråbrödersgatan. In the museum, an attempt has been made to recreate Tegnér's home with original furnishings and various Tegnér memorabilia.

The museum's four rooms are a smaller part of the city estate where Tegnér lived from 1813 to 1826.

You can book a private tour of the Tegnér Museum. Contact Kulturen's booking service for price information.