In Sweden, the place of early music in curricula and research program has been dependant on individuals rather than infrastructures promoting historical musicology in general and early music in particular. Like in many other countries, historical musicology at Swedish universities has declined in favour of courses in popular music, music sociology etc. No professorships only devoted to early music exist, also no research centres or musicological milieus exists that is solely occupied by studying early music though Uppsala university upholds a strong tradition in historical musicology and has ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research projects. On a general level students in musicology meet early music to a very limited extent, sometimes only as introduction courses in (Western) music history. The possibility to introduce and attract students to the study of early music is in other words limited and leads to a serious challenge for the future of early music studies in Sweden. However, a paradigm change is perhaps in sight thanks to the material turn, the new opportunities that are offered by digital humanities, and global musicology that has been taken place over the recent years. An example is the advanced level course ‘Western Music from the 800s to the 1600s: History, Historiography, Revival’ that will be given for the first time in during 2023 at the Linneaus University. This proposal is a survey of the current situation for studying and researching early music in Sweden aiming at extending the map of early musicology in Europe and to spur discussions on the future for early musicology.