Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, Sweden

The Modern Museum is one of the leading modern and contemporary art museums in Europe. We collect, preserve, share, and showcase modern art from the early 20th century, as well as photographic works from 1840 and beyond.

The museum opened in 1958 when it was relocated from the National Museum to the former Naval Exercise Hall in Skeppsholmen, Stockholm. The current building was completed in 1998 and is adjacent to the old museum building. It was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. The Moderna Museet also opened in Malmo in 2009.

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The Moderna Museet art collection includes over 130000 works in various media. Initially focused on three categories: Swedish and Nordic art, French modernism, and American art from the 1950s and 1960s, the collection has expanded to include pioneering female artists from the 20th and 21st centuries as well as works from the globalized world. Moderna Museet has approximately 100000 collections, and its photography collection is unparalleled.

Only a small portion of the collection can be displayed. But it allows us to explore and redefine standard art history narratives through new insights and constant changes in exhibitions. This includes the Moderna Museet Malm ö, which has been selecting and showcasing its collections from an innovative perspective since its opening in 2009.

Under the leadership of director Gitte Ø rskou, Moderna Museet has developed a new vision in 2020 to promote the development of its activities. This resulted in a joint declaration that can be seen as a compass, which includes seven policies for the future of modern museums.

Modern museums will attract people

Our passion is to spread art to people. We hope to embrace, challenge, and inspire people, and our motivation is to talk to many people. We hope to be inclusive and celebrate diversity by recognizing that people come from different starting points. We will attract a wider audience by sharing the wonders of art.

Modern museums will become drivers of social change

We are not outside of society; We are an active part of the world. As museums, we must reflect on and revise our community's historical perspective, and participate in the present by becoming a platform for dialogue, debate, and interaction. We will increase our impact on society by creating public discourse spaces that promote critical thinking and mobilize change.

Modern museums will defend art

The extraordinary power of art is our lifeline. Art generates and reflects its own era. It enables problems to generate new perspectives; Artists are a tremendous force that can inspire a wider range of creativity. We will embrace art because it opens up new paths and enables reflection on history and the present. We will celebrate art widely, and our view on art is global.

Modern museums will become stimulating platforms for humanities and arts

We hope to become a vibrant, open, and lively museum that exists as a spirit, providing our audience with an elegant, engaging, and direct way of equal exposure to art. We will become an exciting platform that exposes audiences to world-class art, inspiring new ideas and creating space. We will establish new standards for art museums worldwide.

The robustness of Moderna Museet will empower us with the power to develop

As a national institution, our task is to collect, preserve, display, and mediate modern and contemporary art. We will manage our cultural heritage according to the highest standards of excellence and conduct research that can bring about high-quality international cooperation and recognition. We will become a leading institution in our field, and we believe in sharing our knowledge.

Modern museums hope to have a holistic perspective on their works

Our collection, research, exhibition, mediation, and communication must complement and promote each other; These activities cannot be carried out alone. We will define ourselves based on the environment we are in. Our goal is to expose as many people as possible to the greatest art, and this goal must rely on sustainable practices that consider environmental and social impacts.

Modern museums must be driven by the courage to try

We must dare to break through boundaries and take new paths in managing tasks. Starting from our basic stability, we need to challenge ourselves and not be afraid of experimental failure. We will encourage our colleagues to conduct new experiments, seek collaboration, seek new perspectives, and gain enjoyment in new fields - and by doing so, we will commemorate our brave history.