Malmö Art Museum, Art museum in Malmö Castle complex, Sweden.
Malmö Art Museum occupies spaces within Malmö Castle and holds around 40,000 artworks spanning from the Renaissance to today across multiple exhibition galleries. The collections feature Nordic and European pieces displayed throughout rooms within the castle grounds.
The museum was founded in 1841 and has been housed since 1937 in a brick building within the Malmö Castle complex, where it is run by the City of Malmö. Its Nordic modern collection grew from Herman Gotthardt's donation of 700 works gathered between 1914 and 1943, and in 2015 the museum took over management of the Schyl donation from Malmö Konsthall.
The museum's holdings include more than 2,600 drawings and 25 paintings by Carl Fredrik Hill, alongside a Russian early-20th-century collection bought at the 1914 Baltic Exhibition, with works by Aleksandr Golovin, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Aleksandr Hausch and Pavel Kuznetsov. The Herman Gotthardt donation of 700 works, assembled between 1914 and 1943, shaped the Nordic modernism collection.
The museum sits inside the Malmöhus castle complex, reached by a bridge with a metal railing over the moat. The top-floor hall of about 1,000 square metres holds the large temporary shows, while a smaller room is kept for short, experimental Nordic and international projects. Around ten exhibitions run each year, mostly on Nordic themes.
Herman Gotthardt assembled 700 works between 1914 and 1943, and this donation laid the foundations of the museum's Nordic modernism collection. Among the artists it brought in are Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Vera Nilsson, J.F. Willumsen and Tyko Sallinen.
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