Moderna Museet

Moderna Museet
Established1958
LocationSkeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
TypeArt museum
Collection size
  • c.6,000 paintings
  • 25,000 graphical prints
  • 400 art videos
  • 100,000 photos
DirectorGitte Ørskou
Public transit access
Bus to Arkitektur-/Moderna museet
Websitewww.modernamuseet.se
moderna museet exterior
"Art Format Critical Run" commissioned by Moderna Museet debating the thematics: Are critics critical?, Is art in advance of the broken arm?
The Four Elements (1961) by Alexander Calder, installation in front of the museum entrance
Le Paradis fantastique (1966) by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, sculptures outside Moderna Museet
Entrance

Moderna Museet (lit. 'the modern museum') is a state museum for modern and contemporary art and design, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958.

History

After the original opening, in 2009, the museum also opened Moderna Museet Malmö in Malmö, in a building that had housed the Rooseum centre for contemporary art. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm has been the subject of scholarship on museum history, preservation, and institutional planning.

Collection

The museum houses Swedish and international modern and contemporary art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, and a model of Tatlin's Tower. The museum's collection also includes key works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as ongoing acquisitions by contemporary artists.

On 8 November 1993, six works by Picasso and two by Georges Braque, totaling more than £40 million, were stolen from the museum in a coup in which the burglars came in through the roof by night, copying a method from the 1955 French film Rififi. All six of the Picasso paintings and one of the Braque paintings have been recovered.

Pontus Hultén Collection

In 2005, former museum director Pontus Hultén bequeathed over 700 works of art to Moderna Museet, along with his archive and library. A few works of the collection are on display with the museum's permanent collection; many others are exhibited in the purpose-built Pontus Hultén Study Gallery.

Sculpture park

The museum has a sculpture park on the island with works by sculptors of diverse nationalities.

Architecture

The museum was initially housed in Exercishuset on Skeppsholmen.

From 1994 to 1998, it was temporarily moved to another location, the Spårvägshallarna, in Stockholm while the new building on Skeppsholmen, designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, was built. The Pontus Hultén Study Gallery was designed by Renzo Piano.

The museum shares its premises with the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.

Activity

The museum organizes and is a venue for temporary contemporary art exhibitions throughout the year. In 2005, the museum hosted the onedotzero festival with the intention of attracting a new, younger audience to the museum with screenings, installations, talks and live VJ audio-visual events.

Until 4 October 2026, Moderna Museet is presenting Brassaï. The Secret Signs of Paris, an exhibition on the Hungarian-French photographer’s depictions of Parisian street life, signs, graffiti, and nocturnal urban culture.

Directors

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Om samlingen". sis.modernamuseet.se. Moderna Museet. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Moderna Museet". malmo.se. Malmö Municipality. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Burch, Stuart (2012). "Past Presents and Present Futures: Rethinking Sweden's Moderna Museet". Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism. 9 (2): 97–111. doi:10.5749/futuante.9.2.0097.
  4. ↑ McCormick, Seth (2011). "Fête in Venice". Art Journal. 70 (4): 113–116. JSTOR 23279535.
  5. ↑ Axedin, Annie; TT (12 November 2013). "Största konstkuppen inte helt löst". Södertörns Högskola. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Spektakulära konststölder genom tiderna" [Spectacular art thefts through the ages] (in Swedish). Barnebys Group AB. 29 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  7. 1 2 Pauli, Calle (10 November 2005). "Pontus Hultén donerar 700 verk till Moderna Museet". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Utomhusskulpturer på Skeppsholmen, Stockholm" (PDF). modernamuseet.se. Moderna Museet. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Exercishuset på Skeppsholmen". sfv.se. National Property Board of Sweden. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Odefalk, Eva (27 December 1997). "Flyttfest". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Moneo, Rafael; Mårtelius, Johan; Jewson, William; Lidman, Åke E:son (1998). Modern Museum and Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm (in Swedish). Stockholm: Arkitektur. ISBN 91-87214-76-8.
  12. ↑ Jacobsson, Cecilia (13 January 2005). "Visuellt och utmanande på Moderna". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 5 June 2015.[dead link]
  13. ↑ "Brassaï. The Secret Signs of Paris". Moderna Museet. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  14. ↑ Rachlin, Natalja (12 June 2012). "In Stockholm, Stretching a Museum's Boundaries". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  15. 1 2 "Gitte Ørskou will be the new Director of Moderna Museet". Moderna Museet i Malmö. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  16. ↑ Barry, Salena; Ørskou, Gitte (12 April 2023). "To Tackle the Climate Crisis, Museums of the Future Must Get Creative". frieze.

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