Kungsholmen is an island, so most outings here end up by the water. This list gathers the neighborhood's parks, playgrounds, swimming spots and sights we'd send a family to, from sandpits and play structures to waterside lawns for a picnic. It updates as we add places, so check it before a free afternoon on the island.
Isol, the Argentine picture book author and illustrator, reads from some of her own books in Spanish and Swedish. Then everyone gets creative together, and the library serves fika.
It suits kids who follow Spanish or Swedish and like being read to. Isol won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) in 2013, the world's largest prize for children's and youth literature.
Kronobergsparken covers about 5.5 hectares, most of it a high hill that tops out at 40 meters above sea level, the highest point on Kungsholmen. A parklek (play park) sits in the southwest corner.
Halfway along the west side is the Jewish cemetery Kronoberg, laid out in 1787. The Kronkvarnen windmill stood on the hill's north side until it burned down in 1835.
Smedsuddsbadet is a small sandy city beach on Riddarfjärden, right beside the Västerbron bridge and next to Rålambshovsparken. Kids can swim off the sand, play on the lawn behind it and walk out on the boat jetty.
There are changing rooms, toilets and two outdoor showers. In summer a café runs from the yellow wooden villa on Smedsudden, which is also home to the canoe club.
Rålambshovsparken, known locally as Rålis, is a big park under the Västerbron bridge, with wide lawns that run down to Riddarfjärden. Kids get the Rålambshovs Parklek playground, the Domarring play sculpture, and Rålis Skatepark, with bowls of different depths and a large street section.
The park also has a beach volleyball court, a boule pitch, and a 5,000-seat open-air amphitheater where Parkteatern often plays in summer.
Uggleparken is a themed playground in the grounds of Kristineberg Palace, opened in 2013 and designed by the Danish studio Monstrum. All the play equipment is hand-carved wood over a soft rubber surface.
Two 5.5-meter owls, the King and the Queen, have slides built inside. Around them, kids balance along giant ants, spin on mushrooms, swing in hammocks strung between flowers and clamber over huge beetles.
Stadshuset, the seat of Stockholm's city government, stands at the water's edge facing Riddarholmen and Södermalm, built from nearly eight million dark red bricks.
Inside, the Blue Hall hosts the Nobel Prize banquet and holds Scandinavia's largest organ, with 10,270 pipes. Upstairs, the Golden Hall is covered in more than 18 million mosaic tiles showing scenes from Swedish history. The 106-meter tower is topped by the Three Crowns.
Kungsholmen is an island, so most outings here end up by the water. This list gathers the neighborhood's parks, playgrounds, swimming spots and sights we'd send a family to, from sandpits and play structures to waterside lawns for a picnic. It updates as we add places, so check it before a free afternoon on the island.
Isol, the Argentine picture book author and illustrator, reads from some of her own books in Spanish and Swedish. Then everyone gets creative together, and the library serves fika.
It suits kids who follow Spanish or Swedish and like being read to. Isol won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) in 2013, the world's largest prize for children's and youth literature.
Kronobergsparken covers about 5.5 hectares, most of it a high hill that tops out at 40 meters above sea level, the highest point on Kungsholmen. A parklek (play park) sits in the southwest corner.
Halfway along the west side is the Jewish cemetery Kronoberg, laid out in 1787. The Kronkvarnen windmill stood on the hill's north side until it burned down in 1835.
Smedsuddsbadet is a small sandy city beach on Riddarfjärden, right beside the Västerbron bridge and next to Rålambshovsparken. Kids can swim off the sand, play on the lawn behind it and walk out on the boat jetty.
There are changing rooms, toilets and two outdoor showers. In summer a café runs from the yellow wooden villa on Smedsudden, which is also home to the canoe club.
Rålambshovsparken, known locally as Rålis, is a big park under the Västerbron bridge, with wide lawns that run down to Riddarfjärden. Kids get the Rålambshovs Parklek playground, the Domarring play sculpture, and Rålis Skatepark, with bowls of different depths and a large street section.
The park also has a beach volleyball court, a boule pitch, and a 5,000-seat open-air amphitheater where Parkteatern often plays in summer.
Uggleparken is a themed playground in the grounds of Kristineberg Palace, opened in 2013 and designed by the Danish studio Monstrum. All the play equipment is hand-carved wood over a soft rubber surface.
Two 5.5-meter owls, the King and the Queen, have slides built inside. Around them, kids balance along giant ants, spin on mushrooms, swing in hammocks strung between flowers and clamber over huge beetles.
Stadshuset, the seat of Stockholm's city government, stands at the water's edge facing Riddarholmen and Södermalm, built from nearly eight million dark red bricks.
Inside, the Blue Hall hosts the Nobel Prize banquet and holds Scandinavia's largest organ, with 10,270 pipes. Upstairs, the Golden Hall is covered in more than 18 million mosaic tiles showing scenes from Swedish history. The 106-meter tower is topped by the Three Crowns.
