The Folkets Park (People's Park) in Malmö was founded in 1891. The park quickly became a success as it almost immediately became a gathering place for workers. In August 1909, more than 13,000 workers gathered in the park to strike . From 1926, the People's Park looked outwardly a somewhat more politically neutral character and carousels began to be built. The park's heyday began in the late 1930s and continued into the first half of the 1950s. The number of visitors increased during the summer season, and the numbers rose from 4,000 to 5,500 visitors a day. The record year 1947 was the...

The Folkets Park (People's Park) in Malmö was founded in 1891. The park quickly became a success as it almost immediately became a gathering place for workers. In August 1909, more than 13,000 workers gathered in the park to strike . From 1926, the People's Park looked outwardly a somewhat more politically neutral character and carousels began to be built. The park's heyday began in the late 1930s and continued into the first half of the 1950s. The number of visitors increased during the summer season, and the numbers rose from 4,000 to 5,500 visitors a day. The record year 1947 was the number of visitors 742 309 persons. In 1955, the number of visits to the Folkets park was close to 650,000. In the early 1960s, the number of visitors was halved to 310,000, which led to the figure falling below 200,000 in the early 1970s. At first, it was thought that it was only a matter of time before the park once again aroused interest, but after a while it was realized that the interest was deeper. Projects like a glass surface (Möllevångsgården) and set of new scenes in the park were carried out in the 1970s. The investments made the expenditure grow more and more. In 1991, the City Council decided to close AB Malmö Folkets park, buy the entire park and take over the administration. During the later years of the 1990s, plans were made to build homes or a school in parts of the park's Admiral building. Due to concern for the Folkets park's drastically reduced popularity, the city council decided to run the park in project form over a five-year period. From 2001 to 2006, the park was run as a project, where the steering group consisted of representatives from the Gata office, Malmö Leisure, Culture Malmö, the district administration for Södra Innerstaden , Stadsfastigheter and Kulturföreningen. In 2006, the Minister of Refugees spoke in Palestine's Islamist Hamas government during a conference in the park arranged by the Palestinian Association in Malmö. In 2006, the number of visitors was estimated to be 900,000. During the summer, Folkets Park is still Malmö's most popular meeting place and picnic spot. The children's scene, the Terrarium and the Ponyyard Arken are open all year round and the playgrounds are still the most visited. In the northern part of the park there are entertainment venues such as Folkets Bar and Cuba Café, where outdoor concerts are often arranged. Until 2014, for example, there were carousels and the famous "Barnens gård Arken & Riding School", the carousels, which were operated by Axels Tivoli disappeared after the summer of 2013, and the Ark was abandoned as a result of poor finances. Nowadays, Malmö City is running a project where you test different activities that may replace tivolit, and the vintage cars are still there, but are now free of charge. The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth's statistics on Sweden's most visited tourist destinations list the park as number two in the country with 2,857,058 visitors in 2010.