Activities for the Public
The public is welcome to visit Tjärnö Marine Laboratory all year around. Some activities are meant for groups and are only booked in advance, while others are open activities for families or individuals. Most activities are offered during Swedish summer vacation period (early July to mid-August).
Group activity: Guided Tour
All year around companies, organisations, etc. can book a guided tour of the Tjärnö Laboratory. The tour take count of previous knowledge and interests of the visiting group.
The tour can consist of seeing ongoing university education, current research, research vessels, Tjärnö Aquarium and film. We inform about the sea in general, university education, research and marine environmental issues.
Maximum group size is 20 persons. The tour lasts normally 1.5 hours. We offer the tours workdays daytime, but if agreed upon groups can also visit during evenings and weekends.
Booking in advance.
Fees, Guided Tour
per group, excl. 25% VAT
Clubs, private groups
workday daytime: SEK 1200
evening or weekend: SEK 2100
Government agencies, companies
workday daytime: SEK 2250
evening or weekend: SEK 3750
Group activity: Beach Excursion
From May to mid-October Tjärnö Laboratory offer a beach excursion, where participants discover life on a shallow sandy bottom. This activity is equally engaging for adults as for children.
We bring field equipment (waders, aquascopes, spades, nets etc.) and a trained marine biologist. However, group participants are the most active, finding sand beach organisms such as lugworm, sand gaper, common shrimp, shore crab, netted dogwhelk, flatfishes, sand eels, eelgrass.
Learn more about sand beach organisms in the Aquascope.
Together with the group, the marine biologist go through the findings and inform about seasonal variation and the importance of shallow soft bottoms to the fishery, for instance.
Maximum group size is 20 persons. The beach excursion lasts 2 hours. We offer the beach excursion workdays daytime, but if agreed upon groups can also visit during evenings and weekends.
Booking in advance.
Fees, Beach Excursion
per group, excl. 25% VAT
Clubs, private groups
workday daytime: SEK 1600
evening or weekend: SEK 2800
Government agencies, companies
workday daytime: SEK 3000
evening or weekend: SEK 5000
Group activity: Research Vessel Excursion
Subject to availability, non-school groups can book a research vessel excursion with Nereus, accompanied by a marine biologist as a guide. We can make different measurements in the water and collect algae and animals from the seafloor. Activity length is 1.5 hours or longer.
Filming in the Kosterhavet Deep
An exclusive excursion is with a Remotely Operated Vehicle equipped with a video camera. We deploy it and film life underneath the vessel. What the camera films is shown in real time on a large monitor on board. In calm weather we film down to 100 metres depth, otherwise on a site protected from large waves where we reach 20 metres depth. A guide explains what we see.
Booking in advance for any of the vessel activities.
Fees, Research Vessel Excursion
weekday daytime, per group, excl. 25% VAT
Clubs, private groups
SEK/h: 5300
Government agencies, companies
SEK/h: 6000
Fees, Filming in the Kosterhavet Deep
weekdays daytime, excl. 25% VAT
Clubs, private groups
max 15 persons, 15600 SEK, 2 hours
max 30 persons, 23400 SEK, 3 hours
Government agencies, companies
max 15 persons, 17000 SEK, 2 hours
max 30 persons, 25500 SEK, 3 hours