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  3 February 2026 12:34

  Badin exhibition opening at Nationalmuseum on 19 February

  Running concurrently with – and partly integrated into – the Sergel exhibition, a smaller exhibition celebrating the works of Adolf Ludvig Gustav Fredrik Albrecht Couschi, also known as Badin, will be presented during the spring and summer.

• Portrait of Honour 2025: Sarah Sjöström

  13 November 2025 08:00

  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

  22 October 2025 11:31

  Exhibitions at Nationalmuseum 2026

  

• The exhibition Portraits! opens at Nationalmuseum on 6 November

  2 October 2025 08:00

  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 in Stockholm acquires a painting by Sofonisba Anguissola

  16 September 2025 07:00

  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.

  

• Exhibition with Johan Renck and Anders Petersen at Nationalmuseum

  5 May 2025 08:17

  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.

  

• Monographic exhibition with Hanna Hirsch Pauli to open at Nationalmuseum on 19 June

  23 April 2025 11:10

  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.

  

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