Bernadotte tour

An audio guide, available via your smartphone, has been created for the Bernadotte Apartments – the rooms at the Royal Palace named after the Bernadotte dynasty.

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The app is free, and has both Swedish and English text. If you choose to have the audioguide read out loud, please use headphones to avoid disturbing other visitors.

The app can be experienced wherever you are. You can even go on a guided tour from home!

The audio guide, free of charge, describes the rooms as you pass through them – their history, the décor, the collections and how the rooms are used today.

These chandeliers are large and elaborate, and obviously crafted to impress. Each piece weighs about 200 kilograms.

Portraits of the Bernadottes

There is also a presentation of all the portraits. The Bernadotte Apartments, which consist of fourteen rooms located in the north wing of the palace, are home to portraits of the Bernadotte family – from King Karl XIV Johan and Queen Desideria to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

As well as hearing the personal histories behind the portraits, you can also see how the art of portraiture has changed over the years. The paintings were produced by the leading artists of the time, such as Per Krafft, François Gérard, Anders Zorn and Emil Österman to mention just a few.

Included in the entry ticket

You can wander through the Bernadotte Apartments by yourself during the Palace's regular opening hours*. Your ticket also gives you access to the rest of the Royal Apartments, the Treasury and the Tre Kronor Museum.

*Please note that the Royal Apartments may close temporarily due to His Majesty the King's official receptions.

Top image: Queen Josefina as Crown Princess (1807-1876) by Olof Johan Södermark (1790-1848), oil on canvas, made in München 1833. Photo: Alexis Daflos.
The portraits on this page have been cropped. The full versions can be seen in the Bernadotte Apartments.

The Bernadotte Gallery. Photo: Lisa Raihle Rehbäck

King Oskar I (1799-1859) as crown prince, by Joseph Stieler, oil on canvas, painted in 1823. Photo: Royalpalaces.se

Queen Sofia (1836-1913) by Anders Zorn, oil on canvas, painted in 1910. Photo: Royalpalaces.se

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