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Colour! For children and their curious grown-ups
An immersive, hands-on exhibition for ages 6-12: don a lab coat and colour goggles and explore what colour is, where it comes from and how it feels.
You put on a lab coat and a pair of colour goggles, then step through a colour portal. Inside are the materials colour gets made from, from sparkling minerals to dried little insects (lice, the Swedish text says plainly). If you came with an eight-year-old, expect the lice to come up at dinner for a week.
It's built for children aged 6 to 12 and their grown-ups, and runs until August 2029. The rooms ask what colour is, where it comes from and how it feels: a small museum that seems to have lost its colour, a bright yellow room for energy, a blue one for resting, and the rainbow hidden in white light. The museum quotes Barn i stan's children's panel giving it 10 out of 10.
Entry is free and drop-in, on the ground floor right of the shop, but only Saturdays, Sundays and school holidays, 11:15 to 16:15. One adult can bring at most three children. On weekdays schools book it for guided tours.
Look for
The colour portal
Kids get a lab coat and colour goggles at the start, then walk through a portal into the first room.
Colour from minerals and insects
The raw materials behind pigments are on show, from sparkling minerals to dried little insects.
The museum that lost its colour
A small museum-within-the-museum where everything seems to have been drained of colour.
The yellow room and the blue room
One room is all bright yellow, to test whether it wakes you up, and another is blue, for sitting down and resting.
The rainbow in white light
A display of the colour spectrum, built on the idea that seemingly colourless white light holds a whole rainbow.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
- Small Kids
Skip if
You can only go on a weekday: drop-in is Saturdays, Sundays and school holidays only.
With kids
Made for ages 6 to 12, free for everyone and drop-in with no booking. Each adult can bring up to three children.
Free in the same building
- The Design DepotFree open storage with 1,200+ objects telling the story of ceramics and design from the 18th century on, plus a changing mini-show from the collections.
- The Sculpture CourtyardA glass-roofed piazza of 19th-century sculpture, from Thor, Odin and Balder to the shift from idealism to realism. Free, on the ground floor.
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Image credits
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- Colour! For children and their curious grown-upsPhoto: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Tehran/New YorkCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- Jan Håfström – The Lost WorldCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- MUCHA – Beyond Art NouveauCourtesy of Artipelag
- NationalmuseumJacob Shaw / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Moderna MuseetHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Royal Palace of Stockholm (Kungliga slottet)Magnus Johansson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0