Stromma Malmö

18/06/2025

Nu finns årets pridetur uppe och öppen för bokning!
Boka biljetter via vår hemsida eller direkt i kiosken



📸: Nicole Voigt

11/06/2025

För tredje året i rad arrangerar vi den specialskrivna turen om Malmös queera historia. En del av Malmös historia som ofta glöms eller göms bort.

Detta året arrangerar vi turen tillsammans med RFSU Malmö.

05/04/2025

Säsongsstart

22/09/2024

28/06/2024

Nu är det mindre än en vecka till Rundans Pride-tur!! Säkerställ din plats med att köpa din biljett redan nu på vår hemsida!

12/06/2024

Under Malmö Pride kommer Rundan anordna en specialskriven guidad tur om Malmös gueera historia. En del av Malmös historia som ofta glöms eller göms bort.

Guidningen är skriven och hålls av Nicole Voigt som är en av våra guider men också sexualupplysare och snart färdigutbildad sociolog som fokuserat på sexualitet och relationer.

Turen börjar och avslutas vid Rundan och biljetter köps via biljettlänken på vår sida eller direkt hos Rundan på Norra Vallgatan 60.

06/06/2024

Today is Sweden's national day, but when did Skåne and Malmö become Swedish?

Skåne was first mentioned in written sources in AD 811. and was from at least the 9th century a part of Denmark. Skåne was for centuries one of Denmark's most important political, cultural and economic regions. Among other things, Skåne gave the Danish kings control over the entrance to the Baltic Sea and the landscape was the seat of the archbishops of Lund, who at their height had religious supremacy over all of Christian Scandinavia.
Skåne was conquered by Sweden in 1658 during Karl X Gustav's First Danish War. After the conquest, especially under Karl XI (1660–1697), an extensive swedishization of Scania was carried out. Repeated Danish attempts to regain Scania and the other Scanian lands, including the Scanian War (1675–1679) and the Danish campaign in Scania and Blekinge in 1709–1710, were repulsed. Skåne was integrated into Sweden and recovered from war and destruction during the 18th and 19th centuries. Relatively early in the 19th century, industrialization took off in Scania.

Today Skåne is the second most populous region in Sweden (after Uppland). Since the 19th century, Skåne has been distinguished by its agriculture. Today, the landscape accounts for as much as 40% of Sweden's harvest of the most common cereals, crops, potatoes and sugar beets, as well as for almost 70% of the country's harvest of garden plants

(statue of Karl X Gustav)



📸: Nicole Voigt

05/06/2024

Malmö Konsthall

Malmö Art Gallery is an art gallery in central Malmö. It has about ten exhibitions and around 200,000 visitors every year. Malmö Konsthall was inaugurated on March 22, 1975, with an extensive exhibition of Edvard Munch.

Malmö Art Gallery has exhibitions of both international and national art, from the classics of modern art to current experiments. They also carry out peripheral events bordering on other art forms, organize lectures and debates and carry out educational activities aimed at both children and adults

Malmö art gallery, inaugurated in 1975, was designed by Klas Anshelm. It is considered one of his most important works and received the Kasper Salin Prize in 1974. The exhibition area of ​​2,000 m2 is characterised by great flexibility and light.

In connection with renovation in 1994, the art gallery was expanded through a merger with premises in the adjacent brick building, the so-called Hantverkshuset



📸: Nicole Voigt

04/06/2024

Amiralen

The largest dance palace in the Nordics, the Admiral, opened its doors with pomp and circumstance on Boxing Day 1939.

Opened Christmas 1939
Danspalatset Amiralen opened its doors on Boxing Day 1939 to the tunes of trumpeter Allan Wollter and his 12-man orchestra. With a restaurant and space for 1,400 seated guests and an approx. 800 square meter dance floor made of oak parquet, it was the largest dance palace in the Nordics when it opened. In January 1940, the Amiralen Cinema, now Nöjesteatern, was also inaugurated next to the dance palace.

Appreciated new addition to Malmö's entertainment scene
The Admiral Dance Palace was a valued new addition to Malmö's entertainment scene at the time and was a vital part of Folkets Park, not least during the summer months when the glass wall was removed and people took a turn to the big band in return for the delivery of dance tickets.

The Admiral is particularly strongly associated with Harry Arnold, whose orchestra played there in 1942–49 and 1952–54. For Folkets Park and the Admiralty, the 1940s and early 1950s were very successful years, with 1947 setting an absolute record in terms of visitor numbers. Many great and popular artists have been on stage over the years.

Architecture
The admiral was designed by Malmö architect Carl-Axel Stoltz in pure funk style. The building's various functions are clearly presented in the facades, where the ballroom itself is marked with a vaulted ceiling and glazed gables. The interior was lavish and elegant.



📸: Nicole Voigt

03/06/2024

One of Malmö's most popular symbols, the old water tower, is over 100 years old.

The tower was completed in 1903 on memorable land. Korrebäcken was dammed here about 420 years ago and Malmö got the first Pildammen.

Waterworks
The water was led from here in two wooden pipes to a well on Stortorget. Malmö thus got the oldest organized water supply in Sweden. The well is today preserved underground.

A modern waterworks north of the now expanded Pildammarna was completed in 1867. There, the water, after passing through filters and with the help of steam engines, was pumped out into new cast iron pipes.

It was a technology that could satisfy both the need for cleaner water but also water delivered to the different floors of the houses. In 1879, with increasing water demand, we got both the Bulltoftaverket and Kirsebergstornet.

The water plant is taken out of service
After 1900, when the highly water-bearing and very clean Alnarps stream was exploited, the need for the Pildammsverket disappeared. The reservoir replacement was Pildammstornet, designed by the architect Harald Boklund.

The city's pressure level of + 31 m also became the tower's pressure level. Unfortunately, the volume was only 400 m³, which meant that the tower could not fulfil its function for most of the day.

With the need to increase line pressure, the two older towers were shut down in 1916 and replaced by the Södervärnstornet. The cultural function of Pildammstornet is, however, intact.



📸: Nicole Voigt

02/06/2024

Rubato
In front of the entrance to Malmö Live, by the canal, Eva Hild's artwork Rubato is placed. It was through an invited competition that Hild won with the idea of ​​Rubato and then high-tech precision work was carried out to produce a model for the work. The parts were then sent to Düsseldorf to be cast together and completed before the work arrived in Malmö.

Rubato comes from the world of classical music and is used when the music should not be strictly tied to time, but rather become more fluid and mobile. It means a temporary release from the confines of music.

The competition's judging group states: "This artistic creation is inspired by the longing for and the feeling in the sweet music. The work transforms the music into living soft forms that seem to be in constant motion. It gives the viewer free associations, new thoughts and dreamy images. Rubato takes the place, catches your eye – and sweet music arises.”



📸: Nicole Voigt

01/06/2024

Royal is Malmö's largest cinema. When it opened in 1961, the Royal was the first cinema in Scandinavia that had been planned to be able to show all film formats known at the time.

Today, the cinema has a projector for both 35 and 70 mm film as well as a 4K and 3D for digital film. The screen area at Cinemascope is 19.8 x 8.3 meters or 168 square meters and the screen itself is 20 x 8.5 meters, which is Sweden's second largest screen. The canvas was replaced in connection with the renovation in 2012. After many years, the canvas has become almost as large as the original canvas from 1961.

The sound system, called Experience Live, is the only one of its kind in the world so far.

Royal was built under the auspices of Göta Films and inaugurated in 1961 by its director Sten Löfberg. The architect was Sven Grönqvist who, together with architect Birger Jonsson, created the cinema. The advent of Royal can be seen as a determined and powerful attempt to renew the art of cinema in the face of the competition that television now posed. The competition was taken seriously despite the fact that TV in Sweden at that time consisted of only one black-and-white channel shown in a rather small picture format.

Royal's drawing room was red and blue with walnut walls. Instead of a balcony, the cinema had what was called a high floor. In 1961, the number of seats was 754, which after 1999 became 682 and in 2011 became 501. The sound technology used 23 speakers around the salon. Today there are 136 speaker elements in the salon. In 2011, the salon received a major refurbishment and is now in black and red. New chairs and floor. Today, the foyer has been completely remodelled but follows the same classic style with wood panels, glass, brass, stone and marble

The premiere film was The Windjammer on March 16, 1961. Directed by Louis de Rochemont and Bill Colleran.



📸: Nicole Voigt