Moderna Museet, Art museum in Skeppsholmen, Sweden
Moderna Museet is an art museum on Skeppsholmen island in Stockholm, focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection includes paintings, prints, art videos, and photographs by international artists.
The institution opened in 1958 and moved into a building designed by Rafael Moneo in 1998. The relocation marked a new phase after four years of construction.
The museum takes its name from the Swedish word for modern and shows how this art form developed during the 20th century. Visitors experience direct access to the most important movements in contemporary art.
The museum sits on Skeppsholmen, reached on foot from Kungsträdgården via the Skeppsholmen bridge; the entrance faces the gravel forecourt below the pink facade. The Rafael Moneo building opened in 1998, and the sculpture park outside can be walked without a ticket. Temporary exhibitions such as the Brassaï show running until 4 October 2026 may require a fee, while the collection itself is free.
The sculpture park holds Alexander Calder's The Four Elements from 1961 and Le Paradis fantastique, made by Jean Tinguely with Niki de Saint Phalle in 1966. Picasso and Carl Nesjar's Déjeuner sur l'herbe, a concrete version of the painting, stands among the works. The 1993 burglars entered through the roof, copying the heist in the 1955 film Rififi.
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