One of the city's largest staffed parkleks with animals: sheep, goats, pigs, horses, hens, rabbits, cats and guinea pigs, plus a café with a playroom and a wading pool.
Goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and hens on a little farm inside the playground, a wading pool, and the chance to try carding, spinning and felting the wool.
A staffed playground with its own play house, a paddling pool, bowling, mini golf and a woodworking shop.
Wide open lawns that run down to the water, a climbing boulder, an outdoor amphitheater and a busy skatepark under Lilla Västerbron.
The world's oldest open-air museum, with historic houses, Nordic animals and a children's zoo where kids can leave their pacifier with the cats for a diploma.
A staffed park playground with mini pigs, goats, sheep and rabbits, trampolines and a zip line, and bikes, stilts and bandy sticks to borrow.
Staffed and built on Astrid Lindgren's story of the little people under a fir tree, with fir-tree towers of slides, a play truck and a fenced toddler corner.
A playground on the hilltop next to Sweden's first observatory, now a café, with a willow-lined pond and picnic lawns down below.
Lawns, two cafés and a mini golf course, a turf pitch flooded into an outdoor ice rink in winter, and Astrid Lindgren's terrace near her old home.
A free museum of architecture and design on Skeppsholmen, with a collection of about four million objects.
A treasure-hunt puzzle trail and a cannon bingo card send kids through the museum and out into the courtyard to find objects and work out what they were used for.
Crooked handbuilt wooden houses among old fruit trees, with a smithy and workshop where kids use period tools, a stable, an outhouse and a big wooden horse and cart.
A very busy playground at the north end of a park that began as the king's hop garden in 1619, with skateboard ramps by the youth house on the west side.
Two sandy beaches with big lawns, a diving tower and Café Kanaan selling ice cream and fika.
A popular playground in a hilly park laid out from 1891, with winding paths, big trees, a 1787 Jewish cemetery and sledding slopes when it snows.
Blubb, an under-the-sea playroom for ages 0 to 6, plus a sailing school and a make-and-build workshop, and everyone under 19 gets in free.
Free for kids 18 and under, with 140,000 works of modern art in the collection, Rauschenberg's Monogram among them.
Free for anyone under 20, with family workshops in the studios.
Free exhibitions on 500 years of the city's history, from a small place in northern Europe to a Scandinavian metropolis, with a café.
Sweden's largest museum: dinosaurs and fossils, Swedish animals shown in their natural habitats, and Cosmonova, the country's biggest dome cinema.
Marble mazes and cogs in Teknoleket for the youngest, MegaMind where you paint with your eyes, and a free math playground outside with a nautilus-shell slide.
A little town after the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, with functionalist playhouses, a crane and a tram, lots of swings, a wading pool and staff who lend out toys.
Rolling lawns up a hill with views over the rooftops, a playground on top with a big climbing frame, and a lower one with a play bridge, slide and pavilion.
A big swimming spot with two sandy beaches, several jetties, ramps down to the water, a kiosk and restaurant, and a small playground on the sand.
Changing photography exhibitions, guided viewings for visitors with strollers, and a restaurant and bar at the top of the building looking out over the water.
Made for ages 0 to 8, with a story train through Astrid Lindgren's books, Pippi's Villa Villekulla and Sweden's biggest children's bookstore.
Mummies and coffins up close, a 3D scan of a priest's mummy you can peel back layer by layer, and a room of ancient gold, free for anyone under 19.
Art, history and living traditions from Japan, China and Korea, with free entry for anyone under 19.
A quiz trail through 250-plus objects laureates gave the museum, Malala's pink shawl among them, plus a kids' audio guide and a playroom for ages 3 to 9.
Old police vehicles to climb into, uniforms from different eras to try on, pedal cars on a traffic playground and a patrol car with working blue lights.
A transport museum with old trams and buses, a mini metro ride, and a play corner with uniforms, a boat to steer and a vehicle cab.
An interactive museum of Swedish drinking culture, told through history, art and sensory exhibitions, with the Absolut Art Collection on show.
Free for anyone 18 and under, with the Viking World exhibition, the Gold Room and a lunchroom with a microwave for food brought from home.
Leafy hillside paths, a beach, free disc golf and a playground themed on the nearby trains and boats, with a toy train, a station house and a small carousel.
A fenced playground of wooden animals and plants to climb, watched over by two big wooden owls, with spinning mushrooms that work as carousels.
The king's warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and lay on the seabed for 333 years, free for under-18s, with a kids' audio guide told by a shipyard boy.
Baltic shipwrecks brought to life with immersive films, virtual reality and holograms, free for under-18s, on the waterfront between the Vasa Museum and Gröna Lund.
Sing ABBA karaoke in a booth made to feel like the Polar Studio, then get up on the big stage and perform as the fifth member with Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida.
Built like a little harbor town, with a mini shipyard, a workshop with machines, a carpentry shop and a tugboat, plus swings, a fenced toddler area and a skatepark.
Staff lend out play bikes and other play gear on the green, with a grill area, and a playground and wading pool just along the path.
Children's books in several languages, plus gifts and toys, with a little café in the back serving mini cakes, cookies and scones.
An adventure pool with a waterslide, rapids, a whirlpool and a small splash pool for the youngest, plus outdoor pools including a 50-meter one.
A wading pool of about 1,240 square meters with two bird sculptures in the middle, a play ship in the sand beside it, and open lawns among big trees and oaks.
An ice rink in winter around the statue of Karl XIII, Molin's fountain and rows of cherry trees that bloom in spring, in the green middle of the city.
Sand and grass on the west side of the island, by the hostel in the old prison, with a shower and ice cream and a café close by.
A small square park with lime-tree paths, a kiosk, and a playground with a sandbox, rocking animals and swings.
More than 70 illusions to step into, from a spinning tunnel to an upside-down living room and a mirrored infinity room.
A postal museum with Postis, a play exhibition where kids sort, carry and deliver the mail themselves.
A library just for kids up to age 9 and their grown-ups, with books in more than 50 languages and lots of cozy corners for reading together.
An accessible beach on Årstaviken with a shower, and a café and ice cream close by.
Free for kids up to 18, with royal armor, costumes and carriages, a Children's Armoury under a starry ceiling and a castle mouse activity for ages 4 to 8.
Archaeological finds, rebuilt Viking settings and guides in Viking dress, plus Ragnfrid's Saga, a ride through 10th-century Europe on Harald's journey.
An 1850s park with a statue of Berzelius in the middle, and Berns and the China Theater on its edge.
Jetties, a diving tower and a separate children's beach on one of the cleanest swimming lakes around, with minigolf by the kiosk and a kids' nature trail.
Soft play for kids up to 6 in 150 square meters of ball pit and soft toys, with a café pouring Monteriva coffee.
Sweden's oldest amusement park, open since 1883, with teacups, flying elephants and mini bumper cars for small kids and roller coasters for big ones.
A 25-meter pool plus a shallow, warmer teaching pool that is less than a meter deep.
A playground made to feel like the countryside, up on Mariaberget with a sweeping view over Stockholm, named for the writer Ivar Lo-Johansson.
A hilltop park with sweeping city views and a balloon-themed playground with a climbing frame, sandbox and swings.
The King's official residence, with more than 600 rooms over eleven floors, the crown regalia in the Treasury vaults and the changing of the guard outside.
Swimming off rocks and jetties into deep water, inside a fenced enclosure with a small lawn, a wooden deck and a café, for kids who already swim.
A city playground built around a silver horse leaping out of a giant mirror.
An amphibious bus on a one-hour tour by land and water, with a live guide in English and Swedish, for ages 3 and up.
Teams solve physical and logic challenges room by room, which works well with older kids and teens.
