Experience the World Heritage Site
Grimeton Academy contains a variety of challenges that create laughter on-site and memories for life. If you’re looking for a unique and authentic experience that engages all your senses, we recommend climbing one of the 127-meter-high antenna towers. Welcome!
Experience and explore
Transmitter Hall
The Transmitter Hall houses the world’s only Alexanderson transmitter from the 1920s. Through images, objects, and interactive stations, you can gain new perspectives on the older technology that is the predecessor to the wireless technology we use today.
During the summer of 2025, you can also experience the art installation “In the Wave Swell” during your visit to the Transmitter Hall.
Included in the entrance
The Exhibition
Included in the entrance
The Radio Shack
The Radio Shack is the World Heritage Site’s amateur radio station with the call sign SK6SAQ. When it’s manned by our volunteer operators, you’re welcome to come in.
Sporadically open
The Walk
Take a stroll along our accessible walking trail that leads you to the first antenna tower. Stop and listen to stories told as you crank up the radio at the benches.
Included in the entrance
Outdoor activity
Challenges and adventures
Exercise Hawk Eye
With the wind – and the occasional kestrel – as company, participants get to experience what it’s like to climb up the antenna tower’s original ladder. Exercise Falcon Eye is a dizzying high-altitude exercise 127 meters above ground.
From 16 years
Outdoor activity
Health information is available
The Sabotage
It is urgent. The Alexanderson transmitter was cunningly sabotaged during the night and we need to find the perpetrator and the motive. Some information has been secured, but also some very strange traces. Do you have what it takes to find the saboteur?
Included in the ticket. Subject to availability. Some waiting time for start may occur.
Included in the entrance
From about 13 to 100 years old
Sabotage Kids
Included in the entrance
For kids and adults
Outdoor activity
Interception
Included in the entrance
For kids and adults
Outdoor activity
The Examination
In The Control, your physical skills are put to the test. In three stages, you get to test your vision, strength, and balance. Something that mast workers have been doing in Grimeton since the 1920s. We call it an obstacle course, others call it the world’s best playground!
Included in the entrance
For kids
Outdoor activity
Summer Camp “Wake up with the World Heritage”
Stay in mast worker shape this summer and Wake up with the World Heritage. Hanna Arnell leads you in exercise and yoga on Tuesday mornings at 8 AM. Take the opportunity to eat breakfast with a World Heritage view before you start your day!
Adults and children
Outdoor activity
Guided tours
The Day Shift
By joining the Day Shift, you can learn more about Grimeton Radio Station and why it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004.
From about 6 years
The Technical Shift
From 15 years
Transmitter Startup
Health information is available
Eat and meet
Restaurant “Matsalen”
Enjoy a meal or “fika” with a marvellous view in “Matsalen”, our café/restaurant.
Open daily when the World Heritage site is open.
Reception & Shop
At the World Heritage Center’s Reception and Shop you can buy both tickets and fun memories from the radio station. The shop is open when the World Heritage Center is open.
Reception
Like a cool friend, the Ice Cream Parlour stands in the middle of the World Heritage Site and lights up with its “Televerket color”! The best ice cream from SIA Ice Cream – and here you can buy a Tower Ice cream!
Open
Friday – Sun 10am-3pm
(and maybe other sunny days. Ice cream is always available for purchase in the Shop)
Electric grill
Grill your own packed lunch or enjoy the World Heritage Site’s grill package. The electric grill is located next to the visitor center.
Catch our Green Laser – and Take a Picture!
From the antenna tower of the World Heritage Site, the artwork Transmission makes the imaginary communication of the radio station visible. Green lasers in the form of varying waves and frequencies convey messages in Morse code intervals. The light, visible from miles away, conveys messages based on UNESCO’s work for peace and human equality. Peace. Friendship. Freedom. Equality. Life. Love. The artwork is visible on a few occasions each year and during the dark hours of the day. It is created by the artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic and is a permanent work owned by Varberg municipality. Photographer: Natalie Greppi.
If you capture it on camera, don’t forget to post your experience on social media, tagged with #transmissiongrimeton and @worldheritagegrimeton so we can see your message!
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