Malmö Tourist Guide

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The four “Must See and Do’s” when visiting Malmö

ꢀ Turning Torso

ꢀ Öresunds Bridge

ꢀ Malmöhus Castle

ꢀ Möllevången District

Municipality Facts 01

Population

276 200

Area

156,46 km²

Regional Center

Malmö

County

Skåne

More Information 02

Internet

www.malmo.se www.skane.com www.malmo.se/turist

Newspapers

Sydsvenskan www.sydsvenskan.se Skånska Dagbladet www.skd.se

Tourist Bureau

Central Station, Malmö +46 40-34 12 00

The City Square. Foto: Frederik T e llerup © Malmö Turism - Malmö Turism

Malmö – The City of Parks

Malmö is also known as the “City of Parks”, Malmö, Sweden’s southern metropolis, with due to the many beautiful parks in Malmö and sandy beaches, shopping in a continental when the spring arrives - Mälmo is transformed environment, rich in culture, green forests and into a beautiful green oasis. As a tourist in estates. In other words, everything one could Malmö, you can stroll around and enjoy the wish for, not only as a tourist, but a resident parks such as, Kungsparken, Slottsparken, as well. In Malmö, there is something for Pildammsparken or Slottsträdgården - where everyone. If you would like to see a little more

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you can relax and listen to the birds sing.

of the world, the Öresundsbron (Öresunds

Bridge) can take you to Copenhagen in just

You will ﬁnd a wonderful atmosphere in a half hour.

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Yard at Lilla Square. Foto: Byline : Malmö Turism © Peter Schmidbauer - Malmö Turism

the Swedish regime, which originated both the expanded and modernized harbor, was inside and on the Danish side of the sound. the key to success.

History

City History - past and present

City Expansion...

During the 19th century and the beginning of

When the city came to be...

Despite all the troubles, Malmö maintained the 20th century, Malmö experienced rapid

Malmhauger (Malmö) is mentioned for it’s position as a commercial city mainly growth, also in relation to size. Then, in the ﬁrst the time in the middle by the 13th due to Frans Suell, whom built the harbor 1840 began Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad century. Then, in 1437, Malmö received it’s in 1775. The industry was concentrated on (Shipyard) which would become possibly city arms from the regent Erik of Pommern, textile, pelts, tobacco, and sugar. and at that time there were only 5,000
Malmö’s most important economical engine.

inhabitants.

From the 19th Century, Malmö was

South Sweden’s economical center and By 1870, Malmö became Sweden’s third

dominated the grain trade up until the turn of largest city, and still is today. There were

And be Swedish...

Malmö stayed Swedish in peace with the century. Afterwards, foreign trade took 25,000 households, and by 1915, there Roskilde until 1658 - but not without a lot of over. An excellent infrastructure, railways were 100,000 households. By 1952, there complications. There was a rebellion against (created because of the infrastructure), and were 200,000!

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Ribersborgs Bathing House. Foto: Malmö Turism © Alexander Brandel - Malmö Turism

Swimming

Handikappbadet Hylliekroken (Handicapped Bathing Facilities)

Hylliekroken is very unique and offers handicapped friendly facilities. There is a wide ramp which leads from the sandy

Sightseeing boat in Slottsparken (Castle Park). Foto: Malmö Turism © Jan-Erik Andersson - Malmö Turism

beach down to the sea and also an elevator Park) was inaugurated in 1893 and has +46 40-33 08 00 direct down to Öresunds sea surge. Of always been a popular enjoyment park for course, there is also a shower and sauna. the resident’s of Malmö. In the beginning,

Funhouse

Here you can borrow a grill, table with chairs it had a strong political connection to the Play in the large jungle inspired playhouse or even a sun chair. Naturally, friends and Social Democratic Party and was used a with a diving platform, playground, and family members are also welcome.

Information +46 40-16 02 34

model for other parks around Sweden. The even a ball pool. Suitable for children of all

ﬁrst buildings in the park were constructed ages.

similar to the architecture at Tivoli in Fosievägen 4, Malmö Copenhagen. The architecture used for +46 40-834 00 the pavilion and entrance were Japanese www.funhousesweden.se

Ribersborg och Kallbadhuset (Swimming)

Riberesborg or more commonly known inspired and are still standing today. The by the locals as “Ribban”, is a wonderful Amiralen was built during the late 1930’s sandy beach within walking distance from and was Scandinavia’s largest dance hall.

Malmö Reptilcenter (Reptile Center)

the center. The area is surrounded by Today, the park features many different The Folkets Park Terrarium - Malmö Reptile grassy areas and the water is shallow which family activities during the summertime. Center has many strange creatures from makes it a perfect place for playing, games The park offers a wonderful carousel, a spiders, lizards, snakes, small kangaroos,

and water sports.

The park and beach large play area, children’s theater, terrarium, Marmoset monkeys, parrots and much

were constructed during the middle of the a “little farm” with pony rides, entertainment, more. 1920s. The sand comes from Öresund and and ﬂea markets. transported from Malmö harbor, by train to www.malmo.se/folketspark Ribersborg. The beautiful Kallbadhuset

Amiralsgatan 35, Malmö

+46 40-30 52 37

Fotevikens Vikingacenter (Viking Rundan-Sightseeing med båt Center) (Sightseeing by boat)

(bathing house) is from 1898 and is very popular for both bathers and café guests. Enjoy a salt bath and sauna all year round.

www.ribban.com

FotevikensVikingCenterisanexperiencefor Take a guided boat tour, in a classic both young and old. Meet real Vikings and sightseeing boat, through the city and parks even see a real Viking’s house. Experience of Malmö. The canal tour operates during how they lived and worked during the Viking the summer and is takes approximately 45 Ages. Don’t miss the chance to see history minutes. The boat is docked at Hotel Savoy,

Family Activities

Folkets park (The People’s Park)

in a very unique and exciting way.

Museivägen 24, Höllviken, 3 mil south of

near the central station.

+46 40-611 74 88

www.rundan.se

Sweden’s ﬁrst Folkets Park (People’s Malmö.

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Limhamns Small Boat Harbor. Foto: Malmö Turism © Jan-Erik Andersson - Malmö Turism

Skattkammarön (Play House)

Småbåtshamnen i Limhamn AB

Skattkammarön is an inside playhouse full Vågbrytarvägen, Limhamn of activities and adventures for children +46 40-15 20 24 between the ages 1-12. Skattkammarön www.smabatshamnen.nu takes you and your children on a journey to Captain Kids fantastic pirate island in the south sea - where the sun always shines.

Jägersrovägen 211, Malmö

+46 40-22 22 70

Museum

Ebbas Hus (Ebbas House)

www.skattkammaron.se

Ebbas House is a well preserved house from the beginning of the 1900’s. Step into a 100 year old home and experience the

Trampbåtar (Boat Hire)

Trampbåt takes you on your own personal special atmosphere and surroundings. tour through Malmös canal system. The Snapperupsgatan 10, Malmö boat accommodates up to four people and +46 40-34 44 95 safety vests are available free of charge.

Inner Yard at Malmöhus Castle. Foto: Malmö Turism © Peter Schmidbauer - Malmö

Malmö Konstmuseum (Art

Boat Rental is located near Sädertull, next to Gustav Adolfs Torg (Square) in central Malmö.

Museum)

Malmö’s Art Museum is located in Malmö Castle. Enjoy, learn and experience art which one usually would not experience. Primarily, the museum offers art collections and exhibitions focused on modern Scandinavian art. According to The Green Guide published by Michelins, the Art Museum is well worth your time and has been awarded 2 stars!

Information +46 704-71 00 67

Guest Harbour

Andelshamnen Lagunen

Vaktgatan 9, Limhamn

+46 40-16 04 30

www.lagunen.nu

Malmöhusvägen 6, Malmö

+46 40-34 10 00

www.konstmuseum.se.

Paddle boats on the canal. Foto: Malmö Turism © Jan- Erik Andersson - Malmö Turism

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Amusement Rides at Folkets Park. Foto: Malmö Turism © Jan-Erik Andersson - Malmö Turism

Malmö Museer (Museum)

Malmö Museum is mainly in Malmö Castle, but also consists of several neighboring buildings. In the popular Aquarium, you can see everything from Piranha’s to small

goldﬁshandthenocturnalanimalsectionhas

bats, apes and green lizards. The Nature History section consists of mainly birds and typical Nordic animals. In the old section of the castle, you can see what it was like to life one hundred years ago. If you would like to go even further back in time, visit the exhibition covering the Stone Age and up until the Middle Ages. Here you can also

The Kings Park. Foto: Malmö Turism © Alexander Brandel - Malmö Turism

Upplevelsemuseet Leksaksland (Toy Museum) and Slottsparken (The Castle Park)

see the skeletal remains which were found The Upplevelsemuseet Leksaksland is Kungsparketn, Malmö’s oldest public park, and excavated just outside of Malmö.

Malmöhusvägen, Malmö

+46 40-34 10 00

more than just a museum - en entire toy dedicated in 1872 by King Oscar II. It was world. 10,000 toys from the 1950’s, up until constructed similar to a British park and has today. The museum is 475 square meters of a number of exotic trees. The restaurant nostalgia and actual toy history for all ages. pavilion is from 1912 and has been rebuilt

www.malmo.se/museer

Fredriksbergsgatan 16 E, Malmö

+46 40-611 07 00

www.leksaksland.se

to a casino. Slottsparken opened in the late 1800’s and is located next to Kungsparken. Since Kungsparken was constructed mainly as a promenade park, Slottsparken offers large open grass areas perfect for picnics and activities. The Pegasus statue in Slottsparken is a creation by Carl Milles.

Teknikens och sjöfartens hus (The Technology and Maritime House)

Nature

Bokskogen - Torups Friluftsgård (Outdoor Recreation Area)

The Technology and Maritime House offers something for everyone interested in technology. One of the many exciting activities is to crawl into a real U-boat and

Pildammsparken (The Willow lake Park)

feel how it must be like being under the One of Skåne’s largest beech wood forests sea! Here you can also see old and new situated 15 km east of Malmö. Have a picnic Pildammsparken (the Willow Lake Park) is cars, airplanes, simulators, trams and much and enjoy the nature, or shop something Malmö’s largest park and built for the 1914

more. The old steamship and playroom good at the café. Many walking and hiking Baltic exhibition.

Margaretapaviljongen

with rafts and pirate ship are other favorites. trails of different characters. You can even conduct your own experiment T o rup, Bara in physics and/or chemistry - play and learn +46 40-44 73 42 at the same time. Holograms, car and boat
(Crown Princess Margareta’s pavilion) still remains, along with Ekotemplet (The Echo Temple). In the 1920’s, Pildammsparken was completed by city engineer Erik BülowHube. Today, the park offers rich bird life,

beautifulﬂowersandhealthyjoggers. During

the summer, the park offers free outdoor theater performances and concerts. models and much more for children of all ages.

Parks

Kungsparken (The King’s Park)

+46 40-34 44 38

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middle 1500’s, a larger section was built rooms of Turning Torso Meetings. onto the castle - which is still left today. In www.turningtorso.com the old Knight’s Hall, it is easy to imagine

Öresundsbron (Öresund Bridge)

the exciting times when the kings lived in the castle and the cannons were still used. After a century of discussions about building For many years the castle was utilized as a a ﬁxed link between Sweden and Denmark, prison, but today it is a museum. We dare the Öresund Bridge was inaugurated on you to go down into the prison - just imagine 1 July 2000. The link is 15.4 km long and how many ghosts there are in the castle!

Malmöhusvägen

+46 40-34 44 37

consists of the world’s longest cable-stayed

bridge for both rail and motor vehicle trafﬁc,

at nearly 8 km. The main span is suspended from four pylons that measure 204 m above the surface of the sea

Rådhuset (City Hall)

The City Hall was built in 1546 and has seen many changes over the centuries and in the 1860’s, Helgo Zettervall redesigned the front of the hall in a Dutch Renaissance style, much of which remains today.

Stortorget

Other

Bryggeriet (The Brewery)

The Brewery has Europe’s largest Skateboard Hall and is a pilgrimage for youngster from southern Sweden and

S:t Petri kyrka (St. Petri Church)

Behind the City Hall, you can get a Denmark. glimpse of Malmös oldest building which Ystadvägen 44, Malmö is from the early 1300’s. The church was +46 40-92 65 85

Slottsträdgården (The Castle Garden)

Slottsträdgården (the Castle Garden) is designed using a Baltic Brick architecture www.bryggeriet.org located just behind Malmöhus Castle and and is very much alike Mariakykan (Maria

Lilla Torg

next to Kungsparken and offers a wonderful Church) in Lübeck, Germany. The medieval ecological garden. Shop freshly picked paintings that covered the church vault were Malmö’s most charming square and one of vegetables and/or ﬂowers along with whitewashed during the Reformation in the the most popular meeting places in the city beautiful and exotic plants. You may even 16th century, but the original paintings in was built in 1592 as a market square. There get good advice from the gardener. During the Tradesmen’s Chapel were successfully are several interesting buildings dating the summer, the garden offers concerts, ﬁlm uncovered during a restoration in the early from the 16th century and later around Lilla evenings, and much more.

www.slottstradgarden.se

20th century. The pulpit and baptismal font Torg. Hedmanska Gården is an enclosed

are all Renaissance works.

courtyard where the oldest half-timbered

house dates from the 16th century and the youngest building, a warehouse, is from the late 19th century and is now home to Form/

Slottsmöllan (Windmill) and Mölleplatsen (Park)

Worth Seeing

Apoteket Lejonet

Beside Slottsträdgården (The Castles Design Centre, which mounts exhibitions Garden), is Mölleplatsen (A park popular related to design and architecture. Outdoor for concerts and family activities) and concerts are held at Hedmanska Gården Slottsmöllan (Dutch Mill) from 1851. A well in July. From March to October Lilla Torg is

(The Pharmacy Lejonet)

The Apoteket Lijonet, at Stortorgets (Large preserved miller’s house and garden is ﬁlled with outdoor restaurants and cafés and square) southern section, is one of Europe’s also located in the area. Mölleplatsen has the atmosphere is enchanting. Don’t miss mostwellpreservedpharmaciesfromtheturn hosted many outside concerts and other a visit to Saluhallen, the covered market of the century, built in the 1890’s. The front summertime evening entertainment. is richly designed in a German renaissance style and the interior is dominated by Gothic

where you will ﬁnd a great many cafés and

restaurants with cuisine from every corner of the world.

Turning Torso

style carved ﬁttings.

Don’t miss architect Santiago Calatrava’s spectacular apartment building in the Western Harbor. At 190 meters, Turning Torso is the tallest building in Sweden. The

SOURCES www.malmo.se

Malmöhus slott (Malmöhus Castle)