Stora Teatern also called Storan

Address: Kungsparken 1.

Today Stora Teatern is a place for concerts. In the middle of the 1800´s it was a place for theatre and after 1920´s is was more famous for it´s music theatres as opera and musicals.

You can´t miss this white building when you are walking around in the city. The Theatre is located at Kungsparken close to Avenyn. If you feel a little bit hungry you can eat in the restaurant Storan.

History
The Theatre was inaugurate Sept 15, 1859 in the name New Theatre. The total cost for the building was counted to
100 000 swedish riksdaler but the costs became more expensive, 380 000 riksdaler. The building is built in renaissance style.

In year 1880 the theatre gots it´s present name, Stora Teatern.

Architect
Architect was Bror Carl Malmberg. Malmberg wanted to built both a scene house and a salon under the same roof.
The building has been renovated through out the years but the original round salon is still intact. The sculptor Carl Ahlborn has made the stucco and the paintings and the ornament.

Move of the activity
All theatre activity move year 1994 to the new built Opera house in Gothenburgs harbour.

2000 the building was renovated and bought by SAMI (Swedish artist and musicans organisation). After the new inauguration 2003 they now offer concerts, party and conference premisis and also a restaurant in the building.

At the outside you can get information about what is happening at Storan.

Bältespännarparken is the small park between Trädgårdsföreningen and Stora Teater. The Park is just a small lawn with a small pond in the middle. You pass it when you are walking up at Avenyn. The Park has got it´s name after the sculpture of Johan Peter Molins "Bältespännarna" who was placed at it´s present place 1914. Here is also a small round pond since the 1980´s. At the summer time it is a fountain and in the winter time it is a rink with ice. At Christmas time you can also walk around among all the sheds that are place her every Christmas. Every year this is also the place for all the dressed Santa Claus. A special day all Santa Claus shall gather here, then they are counted. Hopefully the record is breaked every year......