The 2025 Portrait of Honour depicts swimmer Sarah Sjöström and was taken by photographer Magnus Ragnvid. The Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle on 23 November and will become part of the collection at the Swedish National Portrait Gallery.
Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum 2026
This winter’s exhibition poses the question of who truly gets a place in a national portrait gallery. How has this looked historically? And how might it look in the future?
Nationalmuseum has purchased a portrait painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola. This is the first work by a celebrated fifteenth-century woman painter to enter the museum’s collections.
The Left Shore will be opening at Nationalmuseum on 12 June. This exhibition features a film created by Johan Renck, based on a number of photographs by Anders Petersen. A selection of Petersen’s photographs of closed institutions in Sweden is also on display.
This summer, Nationalmuseum will be presenting the first monographic exhibition on Hanna Hirsch Pauli. It will provide a comprehensive overview of her long life as an artist, including her most famous paintings and works that have never been exhibited before. In Hanna Hirsch Pauli – The Art of Being Free, her art is exhibited in its own right for the first time.
Design for Life – How design changes thinking and improves living standards showcases examples of design products from 1960 to the present day. Opening on 16 April, the exhibition features around 200 objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections.
