Svaneholm Castle, Castle in Skurup Municipality, Scania, Sweden

Svaneholm Castle sits on an islet in Lake Svaneholmssjön and features Renaissance architectural elements along with defensive openings in its old walls. The building has been altered and expanded at different times throughout its existence.

The residence was called Skurdorp in the Middle Ages, fortified beside the parish church in Skurup, where remains are still visible. Around 1530 it was moved to an islet in Lake Svaneholmssjön and took the name Svaneholm; the castle was erected there in the 1530s by the Danish knight and royal adviser Mourids Jepsen Sparre (1480–1534). In the late 17th century Axel Gyllenstierna added an east wing in Italian Baroque style and set all windows symmetrically.

The museum is run by Wemmenhög Hundred's Monuments and Home District Society, and a restaurant serves the public. The name Svaneholm replaced the medieval Skurdorp when the residence moved to the lake islet around 1530. The castle has appeared as a filming location, including in the Wallander TV series.

The castle stands on what was an islet in Lake Svaneholmssjön, joined to the shore after the moats were filled in the late 19th century, so visitors now approach it on foot across the former island edge. The museum rooms are run by Wemmenhög Hundred's Monuments and Home District Society, and a restaurant serves the public on site.

Rutger Macklean, who inherited Svaneholm in 1782, reorganised its farmland into enclosed fields worked by tenant farmers; his reforms were adopted as law in Scania in 1803 and in the rest of Sweden in 1827. An English-style garden was laid out here in his time.