Guided tour of Bohus Fortress
During a group guided tour of Bohus Fortress, you can take part in exciting stories about power struggles, intrigues, feuds and life stories that have taken place between nations and families.
Kings and queens, knights and nobles, prisoners, witches, soldiers and maids have lived and passed through the mighty Bohus.
We offer group tours for those who want to be inspired by and learn about an important and exciting part of Nordic history.
“The land at the mouth of the Göta River – the old Nordic borderland – is a valley of dead cities and fortresses. Of all the towns and fortresses built here before Gustavus Adolphus’s Gothenburg, only Bohus Castle is a reminder of times gone by. The ruins of Bohus – a Norwegian, Danish and Swedish fortress – rise in mighty grandeur above the mouth of the Göta River.” C Weibull
Historical group tours
Our guide, dressed in period costume for the Middle Ages, will meet you at the main gate just outside the courtyard and take you on a journey back in history for an hour. During the tour you will learn more about:
Why Bohus Fortress was the most important place in the North
The greats who have stayed here
How prisoners were kept
Price
- Daytime Monday-Friday 1500kr in basic price.
- Evenings and weekends 2500kr basic price.
In addition, there is a regular entrance fee per person: SEK 120/adult, SEK 60/child (3-17 years). Children 0-2 years free.
It is possible to book a guided tour even when Bohus Fortress is closed. We open up for your company for SEK 1000 extra in opening cost.
30 people are included
One guide takes a maximum of 30 people. If you are more than that, you will need two (or more) guides. There is an additional cost for each extra guide.
Amendments
Any changes to the booking (e.g. change in the number of visitors) must be made at least 7 days before the booked tour.
Clothing and footwear
It is possible to book a guided tour even when Bohus Fortress is closed. We open up for your company for SEK 1000 extra in opening cost.
Adventure Educational Guiding
New at Bohus Fortress!
Welcome to our specially adapted tours for school classes F-3, 4-6 and 7-9. Experience a part of the historical life at the Fortress.
The guided tours are developed with adventure pedagogy and are interactive where the students are actively involved in their learning at Bohus Fortress. Please take a look at the content of the material for the year group in question.
We have the possibility to have one class tour in the morning and one in the afternoon. The tour starts and ends at the main gate and takes 60 – 90min. The start time can be adapted to your needs between 8.00 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 16.00 weekdays.
Price for a class tour 3000:- excl. VAT (max. 30 students plus educators)
It is possible to apply for support from the Västra Götaland region (organizer support) for your trip and your visit. There are two different types of support that can be applied for: Travel support and subsidy of entrance fees/guide fees.
In the case of travel support, it is possible to receive reimbursement for bus costs in addition to SEK 1,000, which the school/municipality must pay for itself. It is the municipal coordinator who decides whether support can be paid, so always contact them in advance! This page provides contact details for municipal coordinators: https://kulturkatalogenvast.org/om- directory/municipal-coordinators
For booking and further contact, please send an e-mail to martin@bohusfastning.com
The servant of Bohus
Upon arrival at the Fortress, you are told a little general information about the fortress itself, which is adapted to this age group. E.g. how old it is and what it was for. Test, is it possible to run up the entrance?
This guide focuses on equipment. Where was the combat equipment stored and how was it used. In a playful tour we play storage and use. The pupil gets to practice finding objects, seeing their use, aiming and calculating. Connections and pattern recognition are practiced in this guided tour with historical means. As in all adventure education, cooperation is a permanent feature.
We regroup the students into three smaller groups of jacks. As contemporaries have three different tasks.
Closing
We go back to the Well and finish with questions and closing games.
For booking and further contact, please send an e-mail to martin@bohusfastning.com
This tour is about how the soldier has lived here at the Fortress. It makes the history visible and makes the student look at some objects that were present in the centuries before our time. In the set-up, the student gets oriented around the whole fortress and gets an overview of everything that has happened here.
In “The Soldier at Bohus”, the students are called up as soldiers and we will move around the entire fortress in a soldier’s line with the guide as the first and one of the class educators as the last “command”. We go to 5 predetermined places that the guide tells exciting things about and the soldier documents his mission on his map. At the end, the soldier receives his soldier, (chocolate coin) festively on our stage.
For booking and further contact, please send an e-mail to martin@bohusfastning.com
The battles at Bohus
This guide focuses on how history has played out in terms of power and struggle. It is geared towards students’ understanding of their own participation and value in society but with historical measures and narratives.
On arrival, you are briefly told about the age and purpose of the fortress. How difficult it was to get in and the thoughtful architecture.
1. power
The story = The importance of kings
The story of the kings’ sons Birger, Erik and Valdemar.
Action = Tug of war, knowledge and physical strength.
2. Ownership of Bagehus /Bohus
The story = The Seven Years’ War in 1566
Action= “Take the flag” Red tower/lower flat
3. The guns
We go to Skarpe Nord where we talk about the cannons and their function.
We’re taking the game of “Lame duck” to Father’s Day.
4. the Farshatt model
Students can ask questions and get an overall picture of the fortress.
5. 1658 Roskilde
The story = Sweden’s development in the south and now the east.
Action = “Take the flag” distribution 80% yellow against 20% red.
Closure (the well)
Storytelling = The Power of Knowledge
Action = Whispering around the Well versus reading a sentence in a Book.
For booking and further contact, please send an e-mail to martin@bohusfastning.com
Classical School Guidance
During a school tour of Bohus Fortress, children and young people can learn about 700 years of Nordic history in an easy-to-understand way. Through the tour, we draw attention to the fact that peace between our neighboring countries has not been a matter of course.
Bohus Fortress is one of the most besieged places in the Nordic region and it is important that we do not forget our less peaceful history. The changing appearance and function of Bohus Fortress over the centuries is also a great thing to highlight to show the changing times in a concrete and educational way.
During a school tour of Bohus Fortress, the class will also learn about crucial events, important personalities, exciting curiosities and much more.We cooperate with Bohusläns guides and Folkuniversitetet.
Awards and recommendations
- Guided tour: 2600:- excl. VAT, max 30 persons.
- Admission: Primary school pupil 50 SEK.
- Time: approximately 1 hour
- Recommendation: from pre-school upwards, with the possibility of grade adaptation.
During our regular opening hours you are welcome to stay with your class. Feel free to bring your lunch. Keep in mind that Bohus Fortress is a ruin that is mostly under the open sky and that the surface is both rocky and uneven. Therefore, wear clothes and shoes suitable for this environment (see also Accessibility).
If we do not have restoration work going on, we open up the fortress for booked groups even outside regular opening hours. The cost for this is 1000 SEK in addition to entrance and guide fees.
Make a booking request via the form, email or phone.
