Moderna Museet is one of Europe’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art, with a collection of high international standing. Malmo has one of the most beautiful exhibition spaces in Sweden. An inquiry came from the City of Malmo if Moderna Museet would like to open a subsidiary in the building on Gasverksgatan 22. In a unique collaboration with the City of Malmo, Region SkŒne and the Swedish government, Moderna Museet Malmo was inaugurated on December 26, 2009.

A modern art museum of this standing in Malmo provides a meeting place and an attraction that will benefit not only the region of SkŒne and southern Sweden, but also Denmark and northern Germany. Moderna Museet is the only museum north of Amsterdam with an international collection covering the entire 20th century. Moderna Museet Malmš therefore offers an art experience that is unique for the region.

With an independent exhibition programme, in collaboration with Moderna Museet, this high-quality museum shows contemporary art’s most important artists and modern classics alternated with a selection from Moderna Museet’s rich collection from 1900 and onwards. Moderna Museet Malmo also offers an exciting new learning programme all year round..

Moderna Museet aims to offer a dynamic and highly relevant program of international, contemporary and modern, exhibitions and events. The program intends to offer excellence in quality and be accessible to a large and broad audience.

Moderna Museet presents exhibitions of international contemporary and modern art, including ambitious retrospectives, solo-shows, new productions, thematic group exhibitions, as well selections of its collection. Artist talks, film screenings, concerts and lectures compliment the exhibition programme.

Moderna Museet presents approximately 6 exhibitions each year.

Most outstanding projects in recent years:

Adam Leech, Bubblenight; Luc Tuymans, Against the Day; Astrid Svangren, What I remember; SPECTACULAR TIMES – the 60s in Moderna Museet’s Collection; Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective 1960-70; Yael Bartana, Europe will be Stunned; and Alice Neel, Painted Truth.

The events programme consists mainly of seminars, lectures, open discussions and artist talks, and is most often organised as event series and carried out in collaboration with both Swedish and international external contacts. The museum also organises concerts, film series and conferences on current topics relating to the museum’s activities.

Learning is a key feature at Moderna Museet Malmo. A wide range of educational activities are offered, including workshops and guided tours for children of all ages, teacher evenings and customised programmes for all school levels. The forward planning of Malmo’s learning activities is in progress and will be presented to teachers once complete.

Moderna Museet publishes catalogues to accompany the exhibition programme.

Exhibition space: 809.5 square metres. Pedagogical workshop: 107 square metres.