For Children
and Families
Smålands Museum and the House of Emigrants are also the children’s museums! Here, there is space for curiosity, creativity, play, and joy. Discover the inspiring Playful! exhibition, the child-friendly audio guide at the House of Emigrants, or join our free holiday activities. For children aged 7–12, we also offer Museiklubben, where exciting experiences await.
Both locations are family-friendly, with restrooms and changing tables for the little ones. At the House of Emigrants, you will also find Mammornas Café, where you can enjoy fika or have lunch, while Smålands Museum boasts a charming museum shop with something for all ages. Children and young people up to 19 always enjoy free admission to the museum. Welcome to a place where the whole family can enjoy and explore together!
Museiklubben – for creative and curious children
Museiklubben is Smålands Museum’s club for creative children who want to meet and do fun activities at the museum. The club focuses on hands-on creativity, meaning we paint, sculpt, and craft in many ways. Often, we start the session by exploring an exhibition for inspiration.
School holidays at the Museum
Celebrate the holidays at Smålands Museum! You and your children or grandchildren can experience art, culture, and history together here. Create, explore, and learn through fun and inspiring activities led by our knowledgeable museum educators. The holidays are filled with exciting experiences and creative projects, either in groups or on your own.
Is a school holiday approaching? Check our event calendar to see the current program!
Discover and explore
Audio guide
If you want to explore the region’s history beyond the museum walls, we recommend The History Hunt, our audio guide for children. At three different locations, you’ll meet children from various historical periods. By the shores of Lake Bolmen lies the medieval castle Piksborg, where you’ll find Olaf. In Lenhovda, exciting and slightly spooky events have occurred throughout history—discover the stories and meet Sigrid there. At Inglinge Mound in Ingelstad, you’ll encounter Torlöf from the Iron Age. Through a mysterious time-travel adventure, these children once met but were later separated. With your help, they can be reunited!
Download the Kulturparken Småland app for iPhone or Android and select the Family Guides tab. The app provides further instructions and maps.
Please note: The guide is only available in Swedish.
Children’s guide at the House of Emigrants. In the Kulturparken Småland app, there is an audio guide for the exhibition The New Land, specially designed for children. Throughout the exhibition, there are suitcases for children to play with and explore. In the audio guide, you will hear the suitcases tell their own stories about the journey to America.
Download the Kulturparken Småland app for iPhone or Android and select the Children’s Guides tab.
Please note: The guide is only available in Swedish.
Utställningar
Explore Smålands Museum’s delightful exhibition Playful!, where children’s play can flourish in a world full of colour, imagination, and playful otters. The exhibition invites play for children up to around 8 years old and also features an educational section suitable for children and adults of all ages.
The traces of people from other times are all around us—visible and hidden beneath the ground. In the exhibition 13,000 Years, you can experience how landscapes, climate, and human life in Kronoberg have changed since the Ice Age melted away. The exhibition also shows how archaeologists interpret traces and objects, from the oldest arrowhead to Viking-era burial finds.
For over 100 years, more than a million Swedes have travelled to America to start a new life. In this exhibition, you can follow their journey—from leaving Sweden across the Atlantic to life in the new land. Here, you will encounter stories of people who left everything behind to find a new future.
Children and adults can explore together what it was like to travel in the past, what the emigrants brought, and how their new everyday life looked.
