Donations | Moderna Museet i Stockholm

The importance of donors in the development of Moderna Museet into a world-class museum cannot be underestimated. Since the museum’s opening in 1958, Moderna Museet has received many important donations.

The Moderna Museet Collection

Thanks to strategic acquisitions and donations from the Friends of the Moderna Museet (MMV), The American Friends and private collectors, the Museum now has one of few international collections that can deliver a conclusive presentation of art from the dawn of modernism to today. The collection includes key works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Meret Oppenheim and Robert Rauschenberg, and also more recent acquisitions of pieces by contemporary artists such as Doris Salcedo, Gabriel Orozco, Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton and Klara Lidén.

Historic donation in 2015

Read about Anna-Stina Malmborg’s and Gunnar Höglund’s donation in 2015: Large donation enriches the Swedish art scene

Donors since 1958

In the period since the museum opened in 1958, the individuals and bodies listed below have donated more than three million Swedish kronor to the museum:

Eva Aeppli
Peggy and Keith Anderson
Svea and Sten Bengtsson
Eva Bonnier
Karl-Otto Bonnier
Kerstin Bonnier
Peggy and Gerard Bonnier
Pontus Bonnier
Åke Bonnier
Zina and Georg Costakis
Theodor and Isabella Dalenson
Gustaf Douglas
Tomas Fischer
Olof Forssman
Maj and Erik Wessel-Fougstedt
Sam Francis
Gerard and Eva De Geer
Carl Gemzell
Galerie Gmurzynska
Rebecca, Rakel and Ivàn Grünewald
Curt Götlin
Hans Hammarskiöld
Greta and Adam Helms
Walter Hirsch
Minette Hollimon
Pontus Hultén
Bengt and Jelena Jangfeldt
Lena and Per Josefsson
Carl and Katharine Kostyal
Helena and Björn König
Kasper König
Inez Leander
Theo and Kimberly Lindqvist
Cristina and Johan Ljungberg
Nora and Åke Lundgren
Jan Eric Löwenadler
Chris and Richard Mack
Anna-Stina Malmborg and Gunnar Höglund
Rolf de Maré
John Mattson
Paul and Jenny McCabe
Carl-Bertel Nathhorst
Annalee Newman
Claes Nordenhake and Margareta Leijonhufvud
Barbro and Bernard Osher
Gösta Olson
Krister and Karin Olsson
Ragnhild and Tore Palm
Irving Penn
Tom Penn
Willem Peppler
Birgit Rausing
Familjen Rodtjenko
Fredrik Roos
Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely
Grace and Philip Sandblom
Karl Sandels
Allan Skarne
Helena and Per Skarstedt
Åke and Caisa Skeppner
Emma Spitzer
Oscar Stern
Britt-Louise Sundell Nemes
Anders Wall
Jan Widlund