Following a request for restitution from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw, Nationalmuseum has written a letter to the Swedish Government recommending that a painting in the museum’s collections should be returned to Poland.
The new exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli focuses on the relations between Sweden and Europe during the 18th century in the field of visual arts and applied arts. A palace building, a theatre king and skilled diplomats were all vital ingredients in the flourishing cultural life of the 18th century.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a decorative urn produced at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory with a motif depicting Mother Svea rewarding Swedish industry. After being sold at an auction in London, it has now been possible to return the urn to Sweden. The acquisition is a generous gift from the Friends of the Nationalmuseum, presented in honour of the reopening of the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum.
On June 26, the exhibition featuring the Nobel gowns that Pär Engsheden created for Sara Danius will open. The iconic garments are on display together with the accessories that was worn with them and Carl Bengtsson's photographs of Sara Danius wearing the gowns. The exhibition will remain on show until February 21.
Nationalmuseum will reopen to visitors under controlled conditions starting on June 16. To make this possible, the premises have been inspected measures taken to ensure compliance with the Public Health Agency of Sweden's social distancing recommendations. The restaurant and the shop will open at the same time as the museum.
Nationalmuseum has acquired two drawings with views from the garden and park of Arcueil by the French Rococo master Jean-Baptiste Oudry. The drawings depict a geometrically landscaped garden with elements of a freer park in a state of picturesque decay. This type of landscape had previously been completely lacking from the museum's large collection of works by Oudry.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. This time, it is a special double issue with scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions over the course of 2017 and 2018. The publication is published in digital format, and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela is one of Finland's most famous artists and commonly referred to as a master of Realism and Symbolism. The newly acquired model study is from beginning of Gallen-Kallela’s artistic career, when he was still studying in Paris.
On 20 March Nationalmuseum, together with most central museums, temporarily closed down activities in the museum building due to the situation with the new coronavirus. This closure is now valid until further notice, and the museum is working on different scenarios for when it might be possible to reopen. This means that some adjustments have had to be made in the upcoming exhibition programme.
Due to the situation with the new coronavirus, Nationalmuseum, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Malmö and ArkDes has decided to temporarily close. Moderna Museet and ArkDes, who share facilities in Stockholm, will be closed starting March 19 and Nationalmuseum will close starting March 20. Preliminarily, all three museums will remain closed until April 14.
On March 26, an exhibition will open featuring the Nobel gowns that Pär Engsheden created for Sara Danius while she was Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. They were developed in close collaboration, and each of them has its own story. The accessories worn with the gowns and photographs are also on display.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a central work in early Swedish photography, Johan Wilhelm Bergström's portrait of his wife Henriette Charlotta Catharina. The daguerreotype was probably created sometime in the mid-1840s, an era when Bergström was one of the very few portrait photographers working in Stockholm.
