Moderna Museet Explained

Moderna Museet
Established:1958
Location:Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
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Type:Art museum
Director:Gitte Ørskou
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Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009 the museum opened the Moderna Museet Malmö in Malmö.

History

The museum opened in Stockholm on 9May 1958, and opened a branch in Malmö in 2009, in a building that had housed the Rooseum centre for contemporary art.[1]

Directors

Collection

The museum houses Swedish and international modern and contemporary art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, and a model of the Tatlin's Tower. The museum's collection also includes key works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as ongoing acquisitions by contemporary artists.[5]

On 8November 1993, six works by Picasso and two by Georges Braque, totaling more than £40 million, were stolen from the museum in a coup in which the burglars came in through the roof by night, copying a method from the 1955 French film Rififi (French: Du rififi chez les hommes).[6] All six of the Picasso paintings and one of the Braque paintings have been recovered.[7]

Pontus Hultén Collection

In 2005, former museum director Pontus Hultén bequeathed over 700 works of art to Moderna Museet, along with his archive and library. A few works of the collection are on display with the museum's permanent collection; many others are exhibited in the purpose-built Pontus Hultén Study Gallery.[8]

Sculpture park

The museum has a sculpture park on the island with works by sculptors of diverse nationalities.[9]

Architecture

The museum was initially housed in Exercishuset on Skeppsholmen.[10]

From 1994 to 1998, it was temporarily moved to another location, the Spårvägshallarna,[11] in Stockholm while the new building on Skeppsholmen, designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, was built.[12] The Pontus Hultén Study Gallery was designed by Renzo Piano.

It is joined to the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.

Activity

The museum organizes and is a venue for temporary contemporary art exhibitions throughout the year. In 2005, the museum hosted the onedotzero festival bringing a new younger audience to the museum with screenings, installations, talks and live VJ audio-visual events.[13]

See also

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Moderna Museet. www.malmo.se. Malmö Municipality. 5 June 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150605174616/http://malmo.se/Stadsplanering--trafik/Stadsplanering--visioner/Malmos-stadsmiljo/Arkitektur-i-Malmo/Alla-byggnader/Moderna-Museet.html. 5 June 2015.
  2. Web site: Rachlin. Natalja. In Stockholm, Stretching a Museum's Boundaries. The New York Times. 12 June 2012. 5 June 2015.
  3. Web site: Gitte Ørskou will be the new Director of Moderna Museet. 2019-06-13. Moderna Museet i Malmö. en-US. 2019-11-11.
  4. Web site: Barry . Salena. Ørskou . Gitte . To Tackle the Climate Crisis, Museums of the Future Must Get Creative . Frieze . 12 April 2023.
  5. Web site: Om samlingen. sis.modernamuseet.se. Moderna Museet. 5 June 2015.
  6. Web site: Axedin. Annie. TT. Största konstkuppen inte helt löst. Södertörns Högskola. 12 November 2013. 5 June 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052511/http://studentreportrarna.sh.se/incoming/article8481.ece#.VXGVwpUw_IU. 4 March 2016.
  7. Web site: Spektakulära konststölder genom tiderna . Spectacular art thefts through the ages . 29 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181114100336/https://www.barnebys.se/blogg/konst/spektakulara-konststolder-genom-tiderna/61696/ . 14 November 2018 . . sv . 15 May 2022.
  8. Web site: Pauli. Calle. Pontus Hultén donerar 700 verk till Moderna Museet. www.dn.se. Dagens Nyheter. 10 November 2005. 5 June 2015.
  9. Web site: Utomhusskulpturer på Skeppsholmen, Stockholm. https://web.archive.org/web/20091122132436/http://www.modernamuseet.se/Documents/Samlingen/MMstockholm-utomhusskulptur.pdf. dead. 22 November 2009. www.modernamuseet.se. Moderna Museet. 5 June 2015.
  10. Web site: Exercishuset på Skeppsholmen. www.sfv.se. National Property Board of Sweden. 5 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20170206064034/http://www.sfv.se/sv/fastigheter/sverige/stockholms-lan-ab/skepps-och-kastellholmarna/excercishuset-arkitekturmuseet-pa-skeppsholmen. 6 February 2017. dead.
  11. Web site: Odefalk. Eva. Flyttfest. www.dn.se. Dagens Nyheter. 27 December 1997. 5 June 2015.
  12. Book: Moneo. Rafael. Rafael Moneo. Mårtelius. Johan. Jewson. William. Lidman. Åke E:son. Modern Museum and Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm. 1998. Arkitektur. Stockholm. 91-87214-76-8. sv.
  13. Web site: Jacobsson. Cecilia. Visuellt och utmanande på Moderna. www.dn.se. Dagens Nyheter. 13 January 2005. 5 June 2015.

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