Guided tours in Linköping

Sweden’s oldest monastery, bloodbath, the Cathedral with roots from the 12th century, legendary love stories, and thrilling ghost stories. Discover Linköping’s fascinating history through a guided tour with a guide or on your own!

In Linköping, you can take part in guided tours at several different attractions and places, and city walks, dramatized guided tours, and digital guided tours are also organized. Here you can read more about how to participate in guided tours.

Linköping’s Guide Club

Join Linköping’s Guide Club on a tour and experience Linköping’s dramatic past full of historical beauty and dark mysteries! The authorized guides tell about different places and eras through Linköping’s history in a knowledgeable and inspiring way. The Guide Club offers both open and tailored, traditional and dramatized guided tours for companies, schools, tourists, and students.

Discover Linköping’s castle, monasteries and churches with a guided tour

Sweden’s oldest monastery, bloodbath, a cathedral with roots from the 1100s, Axel von Fersen’s love story with the French queen Marie-Antoinette or a really spooky ghost story. In Linköping’s history, all the ingredients are there – take part in the many fascinating stories with a guided tour where it actually happened!

Here you can read more about tours arranged at Linköping’s castle, monasteries, and churches

Ekenäs castle
Linköping Cathedral
Linköping Castle and Cathedral Museum
Ljungs Slott
The New Castle Bjärka-Säby
Vreta Monastery Church and Monastery Ruins

Get the most out of your museum visits with a guided tour

There is so much more behind the scenes than what you can see with the naked eye as a visitor – it’s really well worth booking a tour to get the most out of your visit!

Guided tours in Old Linköping
Here you can choose between a shorter introduction or tours with different themes. Explore the houses and who has lived there, and hear about the dreams and destinies of people in the past. You can also visit the historical gardens and gain knowledge about ancient folk medicine or how different garden ideals have looked in the past. See what a school day could look like for children 100 years ago, or learn ropemaking, an ancient craft.

Read more about Old Linköping’s guided tours

Guided tours at the Östergötland Museum
Get to know the museum’s various exhibitions through a guided tour! For the art exhibition Realities and the cultural history exhibition The Road Here, there are also digital audio guides where you can delve deeper on your own and via your own mobile phone.

If you are a group, there is an option to book a private tour in an exhibition and/or tailor-made special tours, lectures, and creative activities.

Read more about Östergötland Museum’s upcoming activities (including tours) here

Guided tours at the Swedish Air Force Museum
Book one of the museum’s pre-prepared tour themes such as the DC-3 that disappeared or the Swedish welfare state. It is also possible to get a customized tour based on your own wishes and interests!

Read more about the Swedish Air Force Museum’s guided tours here

Digital tours in Linköping

Through digital walks, you have several opportunities to explore the city’s rich history and beautiful environments directly on your mobile. Below, we have gathered tips on the available offerings for those who wish to discover Linköping on their own.

Storyhunting in Linköping – Forgotten tales of Berg

Welcome to Berg at the Göta Canal, a place like no other! In this tour, history professor Dick Harrison will be your guide for today’s adventure. Walk at your own pace at any time of the day; Dick is always awake. In this walk, we will dive straight into Berg’s rich history and reveal the location’s hidden stories. We will travel back in time and visit nine specific years, each contributing in its own way to the history of this unique place, Sweden’s development, and our present. The guide is available in Swedish and English.

With the help of your smartphone (internet connection required) and a pair of headphones, you follow the audio guide. Storyhunt uses your location via GPS to guide you from point to point. The tool has a radius of 20 meters before you can unlock your next story in the adventure. You can either download an app from Storyhunt or take part in the tour via the browser on your phone.

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Storyhunting in Linköping – The Lost City of Linköping

A good day starts with a good laugh; so discover Linköping through comedian Ben Kersley’s playful eyes in the humorous story and audio guide about “The lost city of Linköping”! You start at Mickey’s beach café and then make your way through the central parts of Linköping. Along the way, you encounter mysterious beings with exciting stories. The walk takes about 90 minutes and is 4 km long. The guide is available in Swedish and English, and your guide is Ben Kersley, who also wrote the script.

With the help of your smartphone (internet connection required) and a pair of headphones, you follow the audio guide. Storyhunt uses your location via GPS to guide you from point to point. The tool has a radius of 20 meters before you can unlock your next story in the adventure. You can either download an app from Storyhunt or partake in the tour via the browser on your phone.

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Experience Linköping’s art and culture with digital tours

In the Kulturpunkt app, you can experience Linköping’s art and cultural heritage
through walks on your own.

You can easily download the Kulturpunkt app to your mobile and be guided via the map function. In some places, there is also a QR code to help you access the information. You are guided via text, film, and sometimes audio clips. How, when, and which tour you take is entirely up to you. The tours are completely free and are aimed at those who are curious about Linköping’s cultural heritage and history.

The tours are produced by Linköping’s art and museums: Old Linköping, Passagen art gallery, and Image Linköping.

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Explore Vallastaden with an audio guide

Vallastaden is one of Sweden’s most innovative neighborhoods. A dense, green, and mixed area teeming with architectural features and innovative solutions. Through an audio guide, you can listen to stories from nine people about the architecture and ideas behind the neighborhood.

The audio guide is best enjoyed while strolling around Vallastaden’s blocks and actually seeing what you are being told about. But if you are already curious, you can listen from wherever you are. The audio guide is available in both Swedish and English.

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Guided tours in Linköping’s nature

Rolling pasture landscapes, inviting oak groves, forests, bird-rich wetlands, and northern Europe’s largest oak landscape are just waiting to be discovered by you. Let a nature guide show you the way!

Östergötland’s nature and culture guide tours
Linköping Municipality’s nature guided tours
Folkungakretsen STF
Association Linköpings Ekopark
Naturcentrum