Guided tour: From royal palace to cultural heritage

Join us on a journey back in time from the Middle Ages to the present day! The Abbey Museum's public tour tells the entire history of the museum building, starting with the palace that Birger Jarl's son King Valdemar had built in the mid-13th century, a centre of power for debauched court life and political meetings. Birgitta Birgersdotter came here to teach Queen Blanka, and here she got her vision of a new monastic order. The palace was transformed into a nunnery, later became a man-of-war's house, then a hospital and eventually a museum. The stories that have taken place here over 750 years make the place a unique and important cultural heritage.