Millesgården - Visit Millesgården

Welcome to Millesgården

Millesgården can be termed a work of art in its own right, a nicely balanced stage design of terraces, fountains, stairways, sculptures and columns, coupled with a diversity of vegetation and an immense vista across the waters of Värtan from the rocky heights of Herserud.

It was in 1906 that the sculptor Carl Milles bought a plot of land on the island of Lidingö, and in 1908 he had a house and a studio built there. Carl and Olga remained in this lovely home until 1931. A magnificent donation by Carl and Olga Milles established, in 1936, the Carl and Olga Milles Lidingöhem Foundation. Millesgården was first opened for the general public in the closing years of the 1930s.

Millesgården is still run by the foundation, which includes representatives of the Swedish Government and the Municipality of Lidingö. This unique setting, one of Sweden?s foremost tourist attractions, welcomes thousands of visitors every year. It is open all the year round and the intention is for the museum, aided by exhibitions and activities of various kinds, to continue in the visionary spirit of Carl Milles himself.

Renovations finished!

Millesgården's lower terrace was created during the brief period between the artist couple Carl and Olga Milles return from a twenty year residence in the USA,1951 and Carl Milles death 1955. Of the three large fountain sculptures on the lower terrace , Poseidon, Europa and Jonah and the Whale, that Carl Milles installed on the lower terrace during the early 1950, it is the two last-named which was undergoing renovation in spring-summer 2006. Due to the cold climate, sculpture fountains are not usual in Sweden, and now a half-century later Millesgården's fountains are receiving the service that will assure their survival for the art public of the future

Millesgården welcome donations.