Private Stockholm Tours

Stockholm appears in 4 of our itineraries across Scandinavia, ranging from 7–14 days. Every one is private, and every one can be reshaped around the time you want to spend here.

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From our itineraries

What a day in Stockholm looks like.

Taken from the itineraries themselves — these are real days from trips we run, not a generic description of the city.

Day 2 · Essence of Sweden

Stockholm — The Vasa and Djurgården

The Vasa Museum on Djurgården island houses the warship Vasa — the most complete 17th-century ship in the world. Vasa was built for King Gustav II Adolf between 1626 and 1628, sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour after sailing 1,300 metres, and was raised in 1961 after 333 years on the seabed. The preservation is extraordinary: 98% of the original ship, 700 sculptures carved in oak, and the 24 bronze cannons that were the most powerful armament of the age. The Nordiska Museet (Nordic Museum) adjacent: the comprehensive collection of Scandinavian folk art, design, and domestic history from the 16th century to the contemporary. The ABBA Museum on Djurgården: the exhibition that documents Sweden's most successful cultural export — the music, the costumes, and the phenomenon of ABBA's continued relevance five decades after their peak. Skansen, the world's oldest open-air museum (1891): 150 buildings relocated from across Sweden to form a living museum of Swedish rural life.

Vasa Museum — the only complete 17th-century warship in the world
ABBA Museum — Sweden's most successful cultural export
Skansen open-air museum — 150 historic buildings from across Sweden

Day 2 · Swedish Arctic and Lapland

Stockholm — Vasa Museum and Djurgården

The Vasa Museum on Djurgården: the only complete 17th-century warship in the world — 98% original, raised from Stockholm harbour in 1961 after 333 years on the seabed. The preservation of the carved oak sculptures, the 24 bronze cannons, and the traces of the paint and gilding that covered the original ship make the Vasa Museum the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The ABBA Museum and Skansen open-air museum on the same island. The Fotografiska photography museum on Södermalm: the world's largest photography museum, whose temporary exhibitions represent the most significant photography being made today. Stockholm's Södermalm neighbourhood for the evening — the southern island whose independent restaurants and bars have been the leading edge of the Stockholm food scene since the early 2000s.

Vasa Museum — the only complete 17th-century warship in existence
ABBA Museum — Sweden's most successful cultural export
Fotografiska — the world's largest photography museum

Day 11 · Essence of Scandinavia

Stockholm — Uppsala and the City at Leisure

Uppsala: Scandinavia's oldest university (1477), the largest cathedral in Scandinavia, and the Gamla Uppsala burial mounds of the Svear kings. The Stockholm archipelago in the afternoon: the 30,000 islands, skerries, and rocks that stretch 80 kilometres east of the city into the Baltic, accessible by the Waxholmsbolaget ferry network from the city centre. The archipelago in summer is the Swedish summer — a landscape of red painted summer cottages, sailing boats, and the specific quality of Baltic light that Swedish landscape painters have been trying to capture since the 18th century.

Uppsala Cathedral — the largest church in Scandinavia
Uppsala University — Scandinavia's oldest, founded 1477
Gamla Uppsala burial mounds — the 6th-century Svear kings

Day 10 · Grand Scandinavia

Stockholm — Drottningholm and Design

Drottningholm Palace by boat on Lake Mälaren: the UNESCO royal residence, the 1766 court theatre, and the baroque gardens. Fotografiska photography museum on Södermalm. The Nationalmuseum — the national museum of art and design that reopened in 2018. The Stockholm Night Ferry to Helsinki departs in the evening from the Värtahamnen terminal.