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Our opening hours
2025 Seasonally open 17 May – 17 September as below, other times open on request
17 May – 19 June: Thursday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
24 June – 31 August: Tuesday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
3 September – 17 September: Wednesday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
Contact us 0431-311 860 or email museum@birgitnilsson.com
Admission prices
Adult: Exhibition with audio guide 140 SEK / Residential house with guide 100 SEK
Children and youth up to 19 years: Free admission
Adult accompanied by child: 50% on regular adult admission
Students and pensioners: Exhibition with audio guide 120 SEK / Residential house with guide 90 SEK
Read more about groups here.
Welcome to visit the museum
2025 Seasonally open 17 May – 17 September as below, other times open on request
17 May – 19 June: Thursday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
24 June – 31 August: Tuesday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
3 September – 17 September: Wednesday – Sunday 11 am-5 pm
Museum
The basic exhibition is Birgit Nilsson – moments and tones.
The exhibition is renewed annually with a new theme where the visitor can experience glimpses of Birgit’s fantastic career.
The audio guide gives you an in-depth experience of the exhibition with stories about what is shown in the viewing cabinets and anecdotes about Birgit; the upbringing, the opera world and the love for her husband Bertil as well as music and arias from some of the most well-known operas.
Exhibition 2024
In 2025, the theme for the exhibition will be HOME REGION – “Kungliga Opera 35 years, Vienna & Munich 28, Metropolitan 22 but in Västra Karup I sang the longest!”
The Birgit Nilsson Museum – a singer’s museum without parallel in the world – is located on the beautiful Bjäre Peninsula in northwestern Scania, more specifically on the farm where Birgit grew up.The Birgit Nilsson Days 4-10 August 2024
Good to know
Access
The farmhouse cannot be accessed by wheelchair or zimmer-frame. However we can offer chairs to visitors who need them.
All other parts of the museum have easy access, including the café.
During the stay
Photographing
Photography is allowed outdoors and in our Stable Café
Smoking
Smoking is only allowed at the signposted place by the parking lot.
WiFi
Around the farm we have a wireless network available to our visitors – free of charge, of course!
How to book a guided tour of the house
The farmhouse is only available to visit with a guide and a guided tour must be pre-booked. Visitor numbers are limited and estimated viewing time is approx. 30 minutes. Reservations are made by phone 0431-31 18 60 or E-mail to museum@birgitnilsson.com
You can always have a coffee in our fantastic stable café without paying admission to the museum.
Birgit Nilsson Museum and Stable Café are open 17 May – 17 September 2025.
Welcome to Mamsellen in the Stable café
In the farm’s old stable
The stable has been carefully renovated and preserved in as original a condition as possible. The stable’s brick floor is the same as in Birgit’s time and the heritage remains as both a time document and a reminder of Birgit’s roots.
In this very stable, Birgit milked the cows the evening before she left for Stockholm to take the entrance exam for the Royal Academy of Music’s solo singing class.
The stable café has no entrance fee and the same opening hours as the museum
Inside and outside
In a beautiful, tranquil and authentic environment we serve, among other things, nutritious sandwiches and various homemade cakes, including our popular Aidatårta, made according to Birgit’s own recipe. Sit down in one of the pig pens and look out over the courtyard or the lush greenery of the meadows.
Weather permitting, visitors can also enjoy coffee outside at one of our cafe tables in the courtyard.
Around the farm we have free Wi-Fi available to our visitors.
Entrance and Shop
In the main entrance you can buy a ticket for the museum and book a guided tour. Adjacent is a shop with books, music, films, souvenirs and more to buy.
You also have the opportunity to purchase gift cards and season tickets. It is possible to pay in cash or by card, but not with American Express.
We welcome groups
During pre- and post-season
We welcome booked group visits during May and June.
Group size
We welcome groups from 20-50 people including driver and travel guide.
A discount is given at the entrance.
Read more about groups here.
Visit the surroundings
This special landscape meant a lot to Birgit and there are many “smultonställen” to explore. From Swedish this literally translates to “wild strawberry places” but what it really means is “special places”. We have therefore collected tips that we think can be helpful for those who are interested in exploring. Read more here
Hiking trail
The trail follows the paths through the Bjäre countryside which Birgit regularly walked and cycled herself, as she went to sing in the local church choir or met up with friends.
You can easily follow the hiking trail using the map available in the Museum’s car park, which is both the start and finishing point of the walk. Read more here.