Customer Blog: Singing in Uppsala, Sweden 2026.

Thank you for your hard work putting my journey together. 

I’ve had a lovely trip to Uppsala and Stockholm and will gladly visit both again. 

As it is still midsummer holidays there are lots of people in both places.

Uppsala is approx 40 mins train commute away from Stockholm - which train goes through the sky station tucked inside the airport.

I did well to stay in Uppsala for the whole trip as it is a very easy train commute to Stockholm from there.

I came to Uppsala with a choir to sing in the Cathedral, which is an immense building packed full of history and rather like the Westminster Abbey of London.

Other delights in Uppsala are the Gustavianum museum, next door, containing viking artifacts dug up from a burial site just outside Uppsala, along with various collected items from Egyptian to links with the modern University of Uppsala (as old as Prague University) . Quite the British Museum, but smaller and easier to navigate!

The main feature of this old university building is the curious octagonal skylight at the top of the building, which it turns out is the lighting for an anatomy dissection theatre, housed at the very top of the building with steeply raked rows for students to stand in. It has been renovated, but is still quite the equivalent of University of London's theatre at UCL, with appropriate exhibitions around ancient medical ideas of anatomy.

The cathedral in Uppsala was an amazing space to sing in and I’ve many many photos. I can also recommend going to the Gustavianum museum for all things Swedish including Viking burial goods excavated from a nearby burial site.  The museum was an old university building containing a very old anatomy dissection theatre - one of the few remaining in the world. Fascinating architecture with a light lantern to allow sunshine inside to light proceedings.

In Stockholm we sang in another church near Slussen district. Further exploration started with the Vasa Museum which is the nearly complete ship that sank within a few meters from its dry dock - like the Marie Rose. The contents of the ship were nearly completely lost on sinking so there was much historical evidence dug up from the mud. The story of finding the wreck again after 333 years was also worth learning about.

In the same area is the spirits museum, the Viking museum and the ABBA museum. The boat crossing ( included in the metro ticket ) from there was swift to Gamala Stan where the streets are packed with little shops, cafes and other delights.

When I return, I will plan to take the ferry from the StadHussen to Drottlingheim which I’m told has an amazing palace, gardens and museum.

Thank you very much for your work on my behalf - it has been a fantastic place to visit.

With very best wishes, S.