Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–1959 © Robert Rauschenberg/Untitled Press, Inc./Bildupphovsrätt 2019. Photo: Julia Peirone
Moderna Museet Collection
Stockholm
It would be impossible to show all the 140,000 works in The Collection at once, so we regularly change the art in our exhibition rooms. This means that you might see something different on each visit.
What is on display right now? Search the collection
Where does all the art come from? About the Collection
A Room of One’s Own
Welcome to a room for works rooted in the history of feminism and female artists. In this gallery, which has taken its name from Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking essay from 1929, you will almost exclusively find works by Swedish female 20th-century artists such as Siri Derkert, Anna Riwkin, Hilma af Klint and Sigrid Hjertén. There are contemporary works as well by Kajsa Dahlberg and Charlotte Johannesson as well.
Read the introduction to the room: A Room of One’s Own
Realism and Pure-Hearted Poetry
100 years ago, the world had experienced rapid and revolutionary social change. Industrialisation, new technologies, urbanisation, wars and a collapse of the stock exchange impacted on living patterns and everyday conditions. Certain aspects of existence became more complex.
Several artists felt a need to see and preserve in their art the simplicity that was disappearing. They painted the scenes around them, or even their own lives, to hold on to an image of something good and peaceful.
Read the introductions to the rooms: Spheres of Abstraction & Realism and Pure-Hearted Poetry
New Ways of Seeing & Travels in Time and Space
Join us in an exploration of the early 1900s. In the room titled “Travels in Time and Space”, you will encounter photography and painting by artists who experimented with new shapes, colours, and motifs after experiencing art in Alger, Tangier, Cairo, and Constantinople.
In the next room, “New Ways of Seeing”, photography is presented in a dialogue with radical, Cubist works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Read the texts found in the rooms.
Read the introductions to the rooms: New Ways of Seeing & Travels in Time and Space
Strangely Familiar
What psychoanalysis calls das Unheimliche is literally the ”unhomely”, or in English the uncanny. To thinkers from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva, the uncanny addresses what is strangely familiar: when what is well known and safe turns into something deeply ambiguous that provokes fear and disgust.
Read the introduction to the room ”Strangely Familiar”, and three other galleries: Four galleries of contemporary art
Spheres of Abstraction
This room presents a few of the artists who, in different places and with different intentions, developed an abstract formal imagery in the first decades of the 20th century. Some saw geometric shapes as a way of liberating art from its task of depicting the world. Others chose abstraction to try to portray a spiritual universe, or to render the impressions of movement and speed that appeared in modern cities.
Read the introductions to the rooms: Spheres of Abstraction & Realism and Pure-Hearted Poetry
Free admission
Free admission to the Moderna Museet collection.
Audio guide
Take a tour at your own pace! The Audio Guide tells you more about Moderna Museet’s comprehensive collection, temporary exhibitions and outdoor sculptures. The Audio Guide is available in Swedish and English, for adults and kids.
You can download our Audio Guide from App Store or Google Play.
School visit
Welcome to visit the museum with you school class! To avoid double bookings for guided tours, please contact our booking office in good time and notify us of the date of your visit. E-mail: booking office
Free admission to the museum for:
- School classes with pupils under the age 18 (with a teacher)
- Accompanying teachers and assistants
- SFI-classes
Book a guided tour or workshop
Combine your museum visit with a guided tour or an inspiring workshop session. We have different workshops for pupils 13 years and older, and 4–12 years old.
Book a guided tour and/or workshop
Read more about school visits: School
The Moderna Museet Collection in easy Swedish
You can download Om Moderna Museet och några av våra konstverk (pdf), a folder in easy Swedish. This 40-page publication tells you about The Collection, from Hilma af Klint’s exciting painting The Swan, to Soviet propaganda posters.
The outdoor collection
Maybe you have come to Skeppsholmen on a Monday and discovered that Moderna Museet was closed? Or perhaps you just feel like taking a walk in the beautiful surroundings. Whatever the reason, you don’t have to be without art on your way.
Download a guide to Moderna Museet’s outdoor sculptures – a real treasure map (pdf)
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Calendar events
- Guided tour
CANCELLED About the photographers Robert Capa, Ernest Cole, Hans Malmberg and Julia Pirotte
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED On stage
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED Highlighting Ivan Aguéli
In Swedish
- Baby tour
CANCELLED War and Peace
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED Layers of time
In Swedish
- Family Sunday
CANCELLED Tour and workshop, 2–6 years
In Swedish
- Family Sunday
CANCELLED Tour and workshop, 7–14 years
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED A Room of One’s Own
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED Highlighting Robert Rauschenberg
In Swedish
- Guided tour
CANCELLED Travels in Time and Space
In English
More on the Collection
Eccentric Abstraction
14.11 2019
Discover artworks made from materials which traditionally haven’t been used to create sculptures; soft, organic or in other ways tactile. The …
War and Peace – Photography and Sculpture
29.10 2019
The wars that came head to tail in the first half of the 20th century impacted deeply on people’s lives and the course of history. Photojournalism …
Collage and assemblage
29.10 2019
Collage in modern art is an approach that goes back to the early 1900s, when artists combined found materials into new entities. Some artists used …
Spheres of Abstraction & Realism and Pure-Hearted Poetry – Re-hangings in the Collection
18.6 2019
Hilma af Klint, Aleksandra Ekster and Kazimir Malevitj are three artists on display in the re-hung room ”Spheres of Abstraction”. Next door you …
A Room of One’s Own – Re-hangings in the Collection
10.5 2019
Welcome to a new presentation in the Collection – a room for works rooted in the history of feminism and female artists. In this gallery, which has …
Four galleries of contemporary art – Re-hangings in the Collection
16.4 2019
In the room titled “Mental Maps of Power”, you will get insights into the American Unabomber’s realm of thought. In an adjoining room, …
Mona Hatoum – Home
16.4 2019
Mona Hatoum began her practice in the early 1980s, with performance art using her own body in various contexts as a symbol for physical and mental …
More Irving Penn!
28.3 2019
More works by the photographer Irving Penn have been added to the Moderna Museet collection, thanks to a donation from the Irving Penn …
New Ways of Seeing and Travels in Time and Space – Re-hangings in the Collection
19.3 2019
Join us in an exploration of the early 1900s. In the room titled “Travels in Time and Space”, you will encounter photography and painting by …
New works in the collection thanks to donation
6.3 2019
The collection is growing, thanks to a donation of SEK 2.6 million earmarked for acquiring mainly Swedish contemporary art. The funds were bequeathed …
