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Stora gatan in Sigtuna on a summer day, with people walking past the wooden houses.

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Guided tours in Sigtuna: town walks, bike tours and castle visits

The museum's authorised guides lead town walks in twelve themes: open walks in summer, booked ones all year. Those who would rather go alone get a map at the museum reception.

Photo: Bysmon

Open walks

In summer, and around Christmas, Sigtuna museum runs open town walks anyone can join, usually starting at the museum at Stora gatan 55. Dates, times and tickets are published in the municipal calendar and appear in the events calendar here. Come a little early. Groups are limited to 25.

Book your own walk

Groups, companies and clubs book a guide through the museum: email guidadvisning@sigtuna.se. The walks are led by authorised Sigtuna guides in cooperation with the Sigtuna guide association, take an hour unless you ask for more, maximum 25 people per guide. Themes to choose from:

  • Town walk in Sigtuna. How the town was founded, why so many churches were built, the mayor who woke the town in the 18th century and the cultural layers under the street. With a visit to the Lundström family. Can be extended with St Mary's.
  • Sigtuna in 1912. With photographs of the time in hand, from the museum along the waterfront to Malmen, comparing then and now.
  • Sigtuna in the 16th century. Plague, poverty, the fall of the Dominican friary and Gustav Vasa.
  • Sigtuna through women's eyes. A thousand years of the town's history told through the women who lived here. Can be extended with the workers' quarter on Malmen.
  • A church walk. The churches in a row along Prästgatan in the 12th century, and St Mary's at the end.
  • From black earth to yellow house. The town's buildings through the ages and what is known about how people built a thousand years ago.
  • Sigtuna through literature. Central Sigtuna seen through the books and the writers who have written about the town.
  • Folklore, legends and magic. What place folk belief had in people's lives, what was told by the fire in the evening and what people feared.
  • Dramatised family walk. Estrid, Doter, Petrus, Erik and Signe take children and adults through their own centuries.
  • Town walk in Christmas dress. The Dominicans' gingerbread, the first Advent candlestick and the Christmas windows on Stora gatan.
  • Bike tour to Viby village and Wenngarn. From the museum garden along the waterfront and Malmen to the unreformed 18th-century village of Viby, then on to the castle. An hour and a half, your own bike, coffee at Wenngarn afterwards.
  • Steninge Palace and its park. Axel von Fersen, Uppland clay and the palace village. Evening tours start from the Stone Barn.

The museum also shows its own sites to groups of up to 20: the permanent exhibition Sigtunahistorier, the Town Hall, Lundströmska gården, the Mayor's House, Drakegården, the storehouse and the public art in the municipality. School and preschool groups get tours with a creative session afterwards, free for the municipality's own schools.

Sigtuna town hall seen from the main square on a summer day.
The Town Hall on the square, which most walks pass. Photo: Bysmon

Private guides and packages

  • Sweden History Tours runs a one-hour town walk meeting at the Town Hall, in Swedish or English, 450 kronor for adults, 250 for teenagers and 90 for children, and a five-hour tour with transport that also takes in Wenngarn and Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie.
  • The hotels book town guides for conference groups. Hotell Kristina gives as a guide price around 1,800 kronor per guide and hour excluding VAT on weekday daytimes and 2,800 in the evenings and at weekends, maximum 25 people, plus kayak tours and a tablet-based quiz walk through town.
  • The castles: Rosersberg Palace has guided tours of the state rooms from June to September, Skokloster Castle tours all year including winter tours at the Christmas market, and Skånelaholm tours Wednesday to Sunday from May to September in the years it is open (closed in 2026 for renovation).
  • On the water: Strömma runs a guided tour boat from Stockholm to Sigtuna in summer, though not during 2026, and Kanotklubben Mälarpiraterna takes beginners out in kayaks.

On your own

  • The rune stone hunt: pick up the map at the museum reception and find the stones in walls, gardens and by the ruins. Takes a morning.
  • Sigtunahistorier, the permanent exhibition in three parts at Drakegården, the museum and the Town Hall, tells the town's history from the Stone Age to today, with a children's trail.
  • The art walk goes among the public art in town.
  • A ready-made route for an afternoon, a day or a weekend is on One or two days, and the background on History.

In English?

Sweden History Tours guides in English. The museum's guides take groups in English by arrangement. Say so when you book. Most of the open summer walks are in Swedish.

Updated 2026-10-16