The best museums in Gothenburg in September 2025

These are the top 10 best museums in Gothenburg, Sweden, ranked by their rating and popularity in 2025. Click a museum for more information about the museum, including visitor information, exhibitions and reviews.

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Looking for the best museums in Gothenburg? These are the best ones:

  1. Universeum1

    Universeum

     Gothenburg
    Universeum is a science centre and museum in Gothenburg where animals and nature mix with technology and experiments. The Universeum is divided into six sections, each containing experiment workshops and a collection of various animals. The sections include 'Kalejdo', with crime-investigation, laser
  2. Slottsskogen2

    Slottsskogen

     Gothenburg
  3. Gothenburg Museum of Art3

    Gothenburg Museum of Art

     Gothenburg
    The Gothenburg Museum of Art is a leading museum of Nordic art in Gothenburg in Sweden. The museum holds a collection that includes art from the 15th century until today,with an emphasis on Nordic art. The collection of Nordic art from around 1900 is especially important. A key part of it is the lav
  4. Maritiman4

    Maritiman

     Gothenburg
    Maritiman is a floating maritime museum in Gothenburg on the Göta Älv. Visitors can learn lots about life at sea in a playful way. The museum's collection comprises 19 vessels, including Cargo ship Fryken, Destroyer Småland, ESAB IV, Flodsprutan II, Gothenburg barge, Lightship Fladen, Minelayer Kalm
  5. Aeroseum5

    Aeroseum

     Gothenburg
    Aeroseum is a museum in Gothenburg that holds collections of historic aviation machines from the Cold War, as well as modern aircraft, helicopters, and other verhicles and machines. The hangar lies 30 meters below the ground and was originally built for Göta Flygflottilj (F9 – No. 9 Wing), at the Sä
  6. Museum of Gothenburg6

    Museum of Gothenburg

     Gothenburg
    The Museum of Gothenburg is a a cultural history museum housed in the 18th-century East India that was originally built as the Swedish East India Company offices. Museum of Gothenburg features permanent exhibitions, but also organises temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibitions include: 'Prehis
  7. Göteborg Natural History Museum7

    Göteborg Natural History Museum

     Gothenburg
    The Göteborg Natural History Museum is Gothenburg's oldest museum with almost 200 years of history that holds collections of animals from all over the world. The museum includes the world’s only mounted blue whale and an African elephant, birds and fish from. Furthermore there are exhibitions on Ear
  8. Alfons Åbergs Kulturhus8

    Alfons Åbergs Kulturhus

     Gothenburg
  9. Maritime Museum & Aquarium9

    Maritime Museum & Aquarium

     Gothenburg
    The Maritime Museum & Aquarium in Gothenburg is a museum about life under, above and at the water surface. Visitors to the museum can learn about Nordic and tropical waters and their fascinating sea life. The exhibition '400 years of Swedish shipping', includes objects from the Swedish American Line
  10. Museum of World Culture10

    Museum of World Culture

     Gothenburg
    The Museum of World Culture is an ethnographic museum as well as a cultural center in Gothenburg. The museum holds a permanent collection of around 100,000 objects coming from all over the world including China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia in Archaeological, Ethnographical and Art Historical col

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