Practical information for your visit
To ensure that your visit is as smooth, secure and safe as possible, it is important that you follow our rules and procedures.
Please arrive in good time, at least 10 minutes before your visit is due to start if you are an individual visitor, and at least 15 minutes before if you are a group.
Security
- For the safety of yourself and the Riksdag, all visitors are required to go through a security check at the entrance. This also applies to visitors to the Riksdag Library.
- You are not permitted to bring with you items that could cause a danger to other people or damage to property. On account of the risk of fire, you are not permitted to bring batteries for e-bikes, e-scooters or other electric vehicles into the Riksdag premises. Nor are you permitted to bring prams or pushchairs into the building or to park them outside any of the entrances to the Riksdag.
- As a visitor to the Riksdag, you must always have a valid photo ID with you.
- If you have received an invitation – bring it with you in order to facilitate your entry to the building.
- Some debates attract a large number of visitors, and there may be queues to the security check. This may, for example, be the case for debates between party leaders, the annual foreign policy debate and Prime Minister’s Question Time. For these events, it may take longer than usual to reach the Public Gallery, so please arrive in plenty of time.
- It is important for us to ensure that visitors to the Riksdag feel secure. If a visit cannot be carried out safely, it will be cancelled.
Cloakroom
For security reasons, you must lock bags and coats into the lockers in our cloakroom. You must also lock bottles of water or other drinks into the lockers. No coins or other tokens are required to lock the lockers.
Rules for visitors to the Public Gallery
Please be quiet in the Public Gallery during meetings. Please put your mobile phone and other electronic devices on silent mode. You are not permitted to applaud or demonstrate. Nor may you bring objects that can be used to create a disturbance.
Please note that disturbing a meeting of the Chamber may be an offence.
Photography is permitted from the Public Gallery, but without a flash, and only if you remain seated. Taking photos of notes or documents on members’ desks or on the platform is prohibited.