Gingerbread House 2025

For over 30 years, ArkDes has invited children, young people, adults, amateurs, and professionals to showcase their gingerbread creations at the museum on Skeppsholmen.

Building with gingerbread dough is a playful way to explore architecture and design. Gingerbread bakers find creative solutions for construction, durability, functionality, and decoration—just like architects and designers do in real life.

Gingerbread House 2025

On 28 November, the popular exhibition Gingerbread House 2025 opens at ArkDes. Each year, the exhibition attracts thousands of visitors and encourages both young and old, amateurs and professionals to unleash their creativity and build imaginative creations in gingerbread dough, displayed throughout the holiday season. Are you one of this year’s exhibitors?

What kind of architecture makes your heart skip a beat? A turn-of-the-century villa, a modernist dream, or the home you grew up in? The theme of this year’s Gingerbread House exhibition is love! Together we celebrate love for architecture, design, and detail. Perhaps you have a favourite building in your city, or an era that makes your heart beat a little faster. Or maybe there’s someone you’d like to impress with your perfectly piped icing?

Find information about the competition rules, key dates, this year’s theme and the jury here: How it works! 

More than an exhibition

The way participants interpret this year’s theme is a key element, as Gingerbread House is not just a showcase for creative gingerbread designs—it’s also a competition.

Participants compete in three categories:

• Architects, designers, and bakers
• Up to 12 years old
• Everyone else who bakes

A jury selects one winner in each category. Entries are judged on construction, design, edibility, and connection to the theme. Additionally, the Public Prize is awarded to the creation that receives the most votes from the public.