Last updated: December 01, 2024
Welcome to the Christmas festivities in Gustavsberg! Our guide collects all events and activities that make December extra atmospheric in our charming mill town.
In the center, you'll find the traditional Christmas market at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum, where local artisans showcase their crafts. Around Värmdö Market, Christmas trees spread their scent, and along Gustavsberg Avenue, Christmas lights sparkle. From the harbor, you can take a short walk to Farstaviken where the winter café serves warm mulled wine and gingerbread cookies while you enjoy the view over the water.
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Gustavsberg Holiday Light Displays
Stockholm Christmas Lights
Stockholmsjul is an annual Christmas light display that illuminates over 40 streets and squares in Stockholm city with one million LED lights. Traditional Christmas icons like reindeer, angels, and pine trees are given a modern, illuminated makeover.
Gustavsberg Holiday Markets and Shopping
Christmas Market in Gustavsberg
The Christmas market in Gustavsberg is a charming event featuring local craftsmen, food stalls, and live music.
Stortorget Christmas Market
Stortorget's Christmas Market in Old Town is one of the most popular Christmas markets in Stockholm and Sweden. Here, you find 32 stalls with 41 sellers offering Swedish quality products ranging from handicrafts, wood, ceramics, and other genuine crafts to candies, mulled wine, roasted almonds, bread, and game meat.
Christmas Market at Skansen
The Skansen Christmas Market is a historical market dating back to 1903, where you can buy everything from handicrafts and design to sweets and handmade candles.
Taxinge Castle Christmas Fair
Taxinge Castle offers Sweden's largest Christmas fair with over 100 of the country's best craftsmen. Visit the market to experience fantastic, handmade products and solve your holiday gift shopping in one day.
Gustavsberg Holiday Shows and Entertainment
A Christmas Carol at Folkoperan
"A Christmas Carol at Folkoperan is a classic musical theater version of Charles Dickens' story about Ebenezer Scrooge. The action takes place in a snowy London in December 1843 and the show includes a range of well-known Christmas songs performed traditionally by a British ensemble."
Berwaldhallen Christmas Concert
The Berwaldhallen Christmas Concert features atmospheric carols and classic Christmas songs, interwoven with the cinematic music from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella.
Christmas Night Revue
Candlelight concerts present Hans Zimmer's best works at Eric Ericsonhallen under the gentle glow of candles. These concerts are a unique, multi-sensory experience featuring a string quartet playing both classical and modern compositions.
Carola's Christmas at Skansen
Carola Häggkvist invites the audience to a unique and dazzling Christmas concert on Solliden stage with classic Christmas songs and personal favorites.
Gustavsberg Other Holiday Activities
Santa Run
Stockholm Santa Run is a charity run where participants dress up as Santa and run or walk a 3-6 km route in Stockholm's city center. The funds raised go to charity.
ArkDes Gingerbread House Exhibition
ArkDes Gingerbread House Exhibition is a unique exhibition of imaginative gingerbread houses where both professionals and amateurs participate with their creative creations.