Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–59 © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg / Bildupphovsrätt 2016, Stockholm/VAGA, NY.
Moderna Museet Collection
Stockholm
We’re moving things around
In the course of 2019, nineteen completely re-hung rooms will be presented in the collection. Visit us regularly to see how art history and the collection meet in new ways. During the re-hanging, some rooms are closed for visits. Check what works are currently on display by using Search the collection.
We are also changing the lighting to save energy. Read more: We’re updating for the climate
See selected works
The Museum shows selected works that are changed and reinstalled continuously. This means that you might see something different on each visit. In The Collection presentation you can experience contemporary and older work in a variety of techniques and by different artists, including photographs, paintings, sculptures, installations, moving images, prints, textile works, artist books and art that defies categorisation or description of technique.
Guided tours, performances, artist talks, symposia and many other events and activities explore the contents and narratives in The Collection.
Read more about events and activities at the museum: Events
Search The Collection
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.
Click here to see what is currently displayed in Stockholm
Audio guides
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.
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)
The Collection belongs to the Swedish people
Moderna Museet buys art for our shared cultural heritage, and The Collection is owned by the Swedish people. The Museum’s job is to collect, preserve and show art representing the period from the early 20th century to today, and the photographic collection, which begins with the birth of photography in the mid-19th century.
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Calendar events
- Guided tour
On Hilding Linnqvist
In Swedish
- Guided tour
A Room of One’s Own
In Swedish
- Guided tour
Highlighting Sigrid Hjertén
In Swedish
- Guided tour
- Recommended
Collage and Assemblage
In English
- Guided tour
The Moderna Museet collection
In French
- Guided tour
Travels in Time and Space
In Swedish
- Guided tour
Philosophical guided tour: Authenticity, individualism and the collective
In Swedish
- Family Sunday
Tour and workshop, 2–6 years
In Swedish
- Family Sunday
Tour and workshop, 7–14 years
In Swedish
- Guided tour
Travels in Time and Space
In Swedish
News on the Collection
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 …
Further aqusitions within A Larger World
21.12 2018
Within the project A Larger World we have acquired works during 2018 by: Adel Abdessemed, Frank Bowling, Juan Castillo, Lygia Clark, Pratchaya …
News in the Collection: Towards Pure Colour
12.12 2018
Currently on view at the museum is a gallery of paintings that are all virtually in one respective colour. It is a selection of works from 1954 to …
New presentation: Henri Cartier-Bresson
21.11 2018
From November 2018, a selection of black-and-white photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson from the Moderna Museet Collection will be …
Search the collection and find more
14.8 2018
More information about, and more pictures of, the works in the Moderna Museet collection is available digitally. Thanks to our digitalisation …
Monogram is back!
3.5 2018
One of our favourite works is back from a long international tour. On 12 May, you can view the famous work of art Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at …
Aqusitions within A Larger World
6.3 2018
Within the project we have acquired works by: Georges Adéagbo, Etel Adnan, Meriç Algün, Kader Attia, Tala Madani, Rivane Neuenschwander, Gabriel …
Twelve monochrome paintings donated
16.2 2018
We have received a donation of 12 abstract paintings. The art works comes from the art collector and gallerist Claes Nordenhake’s private …
