' Adjacent to the Art Museum, the City libraiy (MonThurs llam8pm, j llam6pm, Sat & Sun llam4pm) has a "what's on" noticeboard thafs woj checking, international newspapers, chess sets and a cafe for recuperation. | enticingly, you may want to glance at the Tittskdpen cases upon cases of im™ ture dolls. Ijg If you're so inclined, round the comer on Berzeliigatan, the old Lwens Theatre now houses a pedestrian Museum of Theatrical Histor>' | noon4pm. Sun llam5pm; free), with black and white stills, manuscnpts posters arranged around its former dressing rooms. The rest of the city: parks and fortresses T of the agenda for most visitors and all kids is Liseberg (midApril to Sept; Okr depending on season, under7s and Gothenburg Cardholders free), an sement park with some highprofile rides and acres of Utterfree gardens, teurants and fastfood outlets. Even if you don't go on anything (the entrance includes no rides), it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon or evening, with ough amusement to be derived from the crooning MOR bands playing "Blue Danish Eyes" over crackly tannoys for even the most devout funfair hater. At t it gets louder and its restaurants, cafes and gardens are good for some "iertaining and safe strolling. Tram #5 goes right to the gates, but if you've made it as far as Gotaplatsen it's only another five minutes by foot across the university grounds. Skansparken, a tiny park to the west of the centre, is worth the walk for the wews rather than for the Military Museum (Sat & Sun noon3pm; lOkr) in the seventeenthcentury fortress tower at the top of the hill. In fact, the whole area between Jamtorget and Skanstorget is worthy of a casual browse: formerly a decayed residential neighbourhood, it's now been restored and rejuvenated. The main focus is along Haga Nygata, which features a smattering of fairly cheap places to eat and drink, some secondhand bookshops, art galleries and ethnic boutiques. For real expanses of parkland and summer entertainment, just keep going west towards Slottskogen (trams #1 and #2 to Linneplatsen), where there are lakes and trees, a Natural ffistory Museum (MayAug MonFri 9am4pm, Sat & Sun 10am5pm; SeptApril TuesFri 9am4pm, Wed until 9pm, Sat & Sun 10am 5pm; 25kr) and quiet corners for a sunbathe. Nya Elfsborg Fortress More great views of the harbour can be had from the excursion boats that run from Stenpiren, a few hundred mehes from Lilla Torget, to the Nya Elfsborg Forss (boats early May to early Sept daily every 75min 9.45am5.30pm; 55kr, families 155kr, free with Gothenburg Card). Originally a seventeenth4;entury island defence guarding the harbour entrance, the surviving buildings have been turned into a museum and cafe. The tour allows just enough time to poke around Ше old walls and crumbling prison cells. The Goteborg, a ship belonging to the bast India Company, sank at the entiance to the harbour in 1745 and the island was recentiy used as the base for the marine archaeologists who examined the Ealmgadrinking fere's no shortage of places to grab a good lunch in Gothenburg.