The oldest sections of Varberg's Fortress date from the 13th Century, while the fortress walls were built in the 17th Century. The fortress has been Swedish property since the Danish occupiers left in 1647. In the 19th Century a large part of the fortress was used as a prison. In the fortress today you will find Varberg's Museum, a restaurant, a caf , a youth hostel along with a number of private dwellings. The Museum arranges special conducted tours of the fortress for school children between April and June.
Schools are also able to borrow smaller exhibitions as teachings aids.
Certain temporary exhibitions in the Museum are often orintated towards schools. Guided Tours Groups are able to arrange guided tours around the fortress the whole year round. During the summer dramatised tours of the fortress are acted out several times a day. The museums archive includes inventering and recording, picture archives, documents of local associations, amongst others. The library contains, first and formost, litterature on history, ethnology and art.