Art Museums in Stockholm

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Art Museums in Stockholm

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  • lenemike
    Roskilde, Denmark431 contributions
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    It's over ten years since our first visit to Fotografiska. The views from the third floor resto are much the same each time: impressive! The exhibitions vary of course. On our latest round we admired photos by Kary Lasch from the 1950s, Cindy Sherman's very heavy tapestries, a Danish doctor in a floating world of bizarre bodies and a young Swedish innovator. There was a small exhibition about the history of selfies too. All in all, well worth a couple of hours.
    Written 2 March 2024
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  • Kityayma
    Sydney, Australia201 contributions
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    We walked over to the museum from Gamla Stan on a freezing cold day and were very pleased to enter this warm, cosy and colourful museum.

    We began our visit at the cafe (which has great views), and enjoyed a well priced and deliciously warming lentil goulash soup with bread and salad. The staff were very friendly and there were stacks of art books available for visitors to peruse making the place feel very homey and welcoming.

    The Moderna Museet gives a great introduction to Swedish modern art for people like me who have not seen a lot of it. There are also many international artists and a variety of styles represented. The hands on origami table near the exit was enjoyed by children and adults alike.

    My favourite pieces were the vibrant and playful sculptures out front by French artists Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, who were also responsible for the Kandinsky Fountain Centre Pompidou in Paris.
    Written 28 October 2023
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  • Phayao13
    Stockholm, Sweden3,855 contributions
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    Since 1948, Prins Eugen's Waldemarsudde has been an art museum that displays Eugen's own art, his art collection and several temporary exhibitions every year.After Prince Eugen's death, he bequeathed the property and the art collection to the Swedish people. It still feels like a visit to a bourgeois home filled with beautiful works of art, not forgetting beautiful flower arrangements
    Written 13 March 2024
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  • Paul H
    Bournemouth, UK1,365 contributions
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    I spent an hour there but I easily could have extended it to 3 hours. The exhibits are arranged on mainly the second and third floors. They are not too many, so it is all manageable. There are more categories than just paintings, but this is the biggest category by far. The cafe is pretty nice too. Entrance was 150SEK per adult.
    Written 17 September 2023
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  • Poul Henrik G
    Oslo, Norway4 contributions
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    Magical place. Quiet and reclusive, a perfect frame for watching Munch, Larsson, Strindberg, Zorn and the other selected artists. Stockholms most beautiful pearl.
    Written 5 September 2023
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  • Bernardo F
    New York City, NY15,927 contributions
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    It's a little out of the way on the road to the cruise ship docks, but it's a stop on the Hop on Hop off buses. A few select exhibits, definitely a modern art type of feel.
    Written 2 August 2016
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  • CalBristol
    Weston super Mare, UK2,147 contributions
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    I made a point of searching this museum out as I had read that it had a fine collection of early 20th century Ballet Russes costumes designed by some of the century's greatest artists. Even though I was looking out for the place, I managed to walk right past it! The entrance is not large and does not easily catch the eye being rather overshadowed by a cafe; you enter into a hallway with the paydesk and shop off to the right, the young man behind the counter was very friendly and there seemed to be no-one else in the place! Excellent selection of books by the way!
    The collection highlights are traditional dance masks from Africa, India and Tibet, Chinese and Japanese theatre puppets and so on, and they are found on the ground floor. Down the stairs to the basement where there is a superb collection of the costumes from the ballets that the impresario Diaghilev brought to the west from Russia. The main exhibit was from the ballet "The Sleeping Princess" which premiered in London in 1921 and there were various exhibits which took you through the story, lighting up the displays as you approached them; unfortunately the glorious music of Tchaikovsky was not allowed to disturb the peace and quiet of the displays which was rather a pity! (And it was quiet; for most of my visit I was the only person there!) There are several display cases of the most wonderful costumes (they appear to be very heavy and one wonders how they managed to dance in them at all!) designed by the likes of Picasso, Bakst, Matisse and so on together with displays of programmes, costume designs, photographs of the dancers, etc., a whole wealth of material. There is also a bank of TV screens showing productions of "The Sleeping Beauty" (as we now know the ballet) from all over the world from the very earliest days right up to Matthew Bourne's latest production and here you can listen to the music through headphones. The only other place that the music was allowed to be heard was in the locker room where a TV screen was showing excerpts from musical films - the two I saw were Grease and an Elvis film!
    If you are at all interested in the dance, then this is certainly worth a visit but it is a great pity that the museum managemnt have seen fit to exclude music from the displays except in one or two instances; apart from the ballet, it would have been interesting to hear, say, the music that accompanies the Chinese and Japanese puppets!
    Written 18 July 2018
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  • AriHelsinki
    Helsinki, Finland4,749 contributions
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    Very personal art gallery and building. Interesting collection of contemporary art. Surprisingly good exhibitions and a very interesting building. Nice location, easy to reach.
    Written 21 October 2021
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  • Phayao13
    Stockholm, Sweden3,855 contributions
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    Large sums are managed here for distribution in scholarships for the liberal arts. Most impressive is probably the large collection of plaster casts.Nice cafe on site for contemplation in an art environment.
    Written 11 November 2022
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  • irawine
    Benicia, CA655 contributions
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    A visit to this museum is included in the general admission charge to the Royal Palace so be sure to go and see the large collection of Roman busts and sculptures housed here. An audio guide is available for your visit, which will likely take you less than a half hour.
    Written 4 September 2019
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  • Darwin1859
    Lugano, Switzerland89 contributions
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    Strictly speaking to call the Fotografiska Musèet a museum is perhaps a misnomer, in the sense that it is not about the history of photography, let alone about how the art of photography grew-up and developed in Sweden. I would describe it more as an art gallery which displays works of art using a photographic medium to express themselves.

    When we went in May there were four photographic shows by four different contemporary artists and also a photo-reportage about a sweat-shop factory which collapsed a few years ago in Bangladesh’s capital Dacca causing death and destruction.

    The building housing the Photography Museum is in itself stunning ( the old customs house ) situated on the waters’ edge with an amazing view across the Stockholm archipelago.
    Written 10 June 2019
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  • RM
    Stockholm, Sweden15 contributions
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    New gallery in town, super cool art and the staff is super sweet.
    You can find unique art prints, originals, sculptures and candles.

    A must if you want to explore a cool gallery in Stockholm!
    Written 16 February 2021
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