Review of the Tom Tits Experiment Museum in Stockholm, Sweden

07.07.2015 8605


The following is a review of the largest interactive museum in Sweden: The Tom Tits Experiment housing over 600 different exhibits, all of which may and must be touched with your hands. All prices listed are valid as of February 2013.

How to get to Tom Tits Museum from Stockholm: hours of operation and ticket prices at Tom Tits

Tom Tits Experiment Museum is located in the suburbs of Stockholm in Södertälje. You can get to the Södertälje city center from Stockholm by taking either bus number 748 or 749 located at the Liljeholmen underground station. You can also get on bus number 748 at the Fittja underground station. Both stations are located on the red underground line.

There are trains as well coursing along route J36 from the Central Stockholm Train Station to the Södertälje Centrum bus stop (on your way back, you will need to get on the train headed toward Märsta to the Stockholm C station). There is an information center at the Södertälje train station where they give out free maps of the city and it’s a 10-15 minute walk from the station to the museum. By car you will need to exit Stockholm going southwest and follow the brown signs toward Tom Tits Experiment. The drive should take you about 30 minutes.    

 

Tom Tits opens up at 10 O’clock in the morning every day and stays open until 5-7 p.m. depending on the time of year (you can check the museum’s hours of operation on the museum’s website). From June until August the park at the museum is open every day of the week and in the winter time it closes up along with all of the other outside experiments.

The ticket price for adults at Tom Tits is 189 kronas, for kids between the age of 3 and 14 is 149 kronas, and children two years and under are admitted free of charge. You can also get yourself a family ticket, including 2 adults and three children for 599 kronas. A visit to Tom Tits and the train ride there are both included in the cost of the Stockholm Card, which we previously mentioned in the museums review for the whole family in Stockholm.

At the entrance, you can take a booklet for yourself with a description of the various exhibits. On the first floor is a paid storage chamber, there are kids rooms located on the first and second floors, and on the third floor is place for you to leave strollers.

 

Where to take your kids at Tom Tits Museum 

 

Presented on the four floors of the museums are over 600 exhibits, which you can turn on and off by yourself, spin, launch, shake, fill with water, climb inside, and put on. The laws of physics are presented there as spectacles along with biology, astronomy, chemical reactions, optics, hydro- and aerodynamics, anatomy, electricity, magnets, music, climatology, optical illusions, optical illusions, games, and magic tricks.   

Awaiting visitors on the first floor are experiments with huge soap bubbles, rings, balls, a “DigiWall”, and you can also raise yourself up along with your chair almost just like Baron Munchhausen. The second floor features a venue where you call play with air current, forge your way through a mirror maze, make a ball move with the power of your mind, and splash around in the “experiment stream”.

Various optical illusions are presented on the third floor and from May up to September you can go for a ride on a bicycle there along a cliff wall. On the fourth floor is a large human anatomy and physiology room where you can measure the force of your scream or the transparency of your hair and you will also get the change to enter a paddling competition with your whole family, find out how many people fit in one cubic meter, and ride down tube slides. 

There are around a hundred different experiments in the museum park open from May to September. Some of them include a huge water tower, a real centrifuge, fountains, solar clocks, an Archimedean screw, an earthquake simulation platform, and a multitude of other experimental devices and entertainment ranging all the way up to a balloon that you will be able to ride on. 

 

What there is to eat at Tom Tits Museum

On the fourth floor is a restaurant with a buffet, hot soups, and pancakes. It is open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. every day. You can also grab some sandwiches and a pastry along with a cup of tea at the café on the second floor, which is open daily from 10 a.m. until 6 pm. Also located on the second floor is a souvenir shop.

The picnic room, the place to go if you would like to warm up and eat any snacks you have brought with you, is located in the middle-age themed Pelarsalen room on the first floor. This room, seating 100 people, also features a microwave. In the summer time you can also set up a picnic on the grass in front of the museum.

Photos: facebook.com/tomtits


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