Follow along on a sustainable time journey

Take a sustainable time travel to 5 of Linköping’s cultural and historical attractions! Experience Linköping as it was hundreds of years ago. All you need is a bus ticket for one and the same bus to get around – sustainable for both the environment and the wallet. 

Explore cultural and historical places and travel through time in Linköping. Many of the stops on the time travel are within walking distance, but with Östgötatrafiken’s bus number 6, you can reach all five! Buy a city ticket for 24 hours on the Östgötatrafiken app together with the group and put everyone on the same ticket to get a group discount of 20%. For an exact map of the bus route, you can find it here.

Östergötland Museum

Start your journey at the place where the history of Linköping and Östergötland unfolds, with content dating back 11,000 years. There is always something exciting to discover at the museum, among cultural treasures of various kinds. The range of exhibitions and activities is large, and everyone is equally welcome; young and old alike… In the building, there are also regional art consultants, conservationists, archaeologists, conservators, archives, and a library.

Admission costs 130 kr for adults, 110 kr for students and seniors, and is free for children up to 18 years old.

Linköping Cathedral

Continue on to Sweden’s best-preserved medieval cathedral – Linköping Cathedral! There is much to discover here and the Cathedral has dominated the Linköping cityscape for over 800 years. The gothic blind arcades with their strange stone figures, Golgotha – the glass sculpture from Orrefors, Mary spreading her mantle of flowers over us from one of the windows. The high bright vaults and a sense of space greet you in one of the largest cathedrals in the Nordic region, but there is also a private corner here for a moment of stillness, prayer, and candle lighting.

It costs nothing to visit Linköping Cathedral.

Linköping Castle and Cathedral Museum

The next stop is opposite Linköping Cathedral. Linköping Castle and Cathedral Museum is an exciting medieval museum where the fascinating history of Linköping Castle and Linköping Cathedral’s development comes to life! From the 12th century to the Renaissance – here you can see the Cathedral’s unique treasures and the hidden Bishop’s Tower from the 13th century. The museum is housed in Linköping Castle, which was originally built as a bishop’s manor, with the oldest parts dating back to the late 12th century. Here you can step into Bishop Bengt’s tower, built in 1286, which still stands completely intact within the castle’s walls. In the treasury on the second floor, some of the cathedral’s fantastic silver items and unique textiles are displayed, the oldest of which were made by the Birgitta sisters in Vadstena in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Entrance costs 90 SEK for adults, 50 SEK for children 7-18 years, and 70 SEK for students.

Gamla Linköping

Continue your journey by boarding bus number 6 from Stora Torget, which is only a short distance from your previous stop. With the bus, you will travel to our next stop on our time journey – The Open-Air Museum Old Linköping. Join a memorable time journey and experience the city, forest, and countryside as it was a hundred years ago! Take a break from everyday life and enjoy the peaceful and unique historical environment with wooden houses, cobbled alleys, old-fashioned gardens, shops, and museum homes! In Old Linköping, there are plenty of activities for both big and small, and it is easy to make your visit an all-day event. Be sure to stop by the charming shops that reflect the bygone days of Linköping’s trading houses. Here, you can buy candy in a cone, old-fashioned household items, and locally grown products to indulge in.

It costs nothing to visit Old Linköping.

Air Force Museum

Get back on the bus and continue to the next stop! The Air Force Museum is a modern, cultural history museum with a world-class aircraft collection. In the museum’s exhibitions, you can explore a unique collection of military aircraft and other items related to aviation’s hundred-year history. Or you can step straight into Swedish environments from the second half of the last century in the large exhibition “If War Comes – Sweden During the Cold War.” The crown jewel of the collections is the wreck of the Swedish DC-3 that was shot down by Soviet fighter aircraft over the Baltic Sea in 1952.

The entrance fee is 120 SEK for adults, 100 SEK for students and seniors, and free for children up to 18 years. Read more about it via this link.

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