Malmo Castle

I visited Malmo Castle with Sofia in January 2020, hence the winter clothes and very grey skies. The blog post for the visit is here if you’d like more detailed information. The castle has always been on my (very long) list of places to visit as it just looks so awesome!

Visiting

It’s easy to get to, maybe a 15 minute walk from the railway station. We flew into Copenhagen and then got the train from the airport straight to Malmo, crossing the impressive Oresund bridge.

The town of Malmo is pleasant too and we did a circuit of the moat before going into the castle, mostly to see the windmill. The exterior of the castle is very imposing with squat gun towers at the corner and a sixteenth century gatehouse.

My Experience

Once we crossed the moat and entered the castle things began to change. Other than a model of the original defences of the town of Malmo there was almost nothing relating to the castle itself. There was an excellent natural history museum, aquarium and a couple of exhibitions as well as a small cafe. I appreciate that the building is being used and maintained with this lease of life but I’d have thought a bit more about the history of the place would have been useful.

We did a circuit of the castle moat and looked at the impressive ramparts and bastions and less impressive scaffolding and tarpaulin. We crossed the bridge into the courtyard and 3 sides were modern 1930’s buildings and just one was an original.

The museum area contained an excellent aquarium and natural history museum as well as a dinosaur section. I think there was an exhibition about refugees on the top floor too but I couldn’t see anything about the actual castle and it’s history other than a couple of information boards so that was disappointing.