Location Stockholm Sweden Phone +46 8 520 235 00 Owner Government of Sweden | Type Architectural museum Director Kerstin Brunnberg Established 1962 | |
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Former name Museum of Architecture (Arkitekturmuseet) Collection size c. 3,000,000 drawings and documents
600,000 photos
2,000 models Founder Sveriges Arkitekter, SA (Architects of Sweden) Public transit access Bus to Arkitektur-/Moderna museet Address EXERCISPLAN 4, 111 49 Stockholm, Sweden Hours Open today · 11AM–6PMSunday11AM–6PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–8PMWednesday10AM–6PMThursday10AM–6PMFriday10AM–8PMSaturday11AM–6PMSuggest an edit Similar Museum of Far Eastern Antiquitie, Moderna Museet, Royal Coin Cabinet, Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Hallwyl Museum Profiles | ||
Yayoi kusama in infinity moderna museet arkdes 2016
The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (Swedish: Arkitektur- och designcentrum, ArkDes, previously known as the Museum of Architecture, Arkitekturmuseet) is a Swedish National Museum for architecture and design. It is located on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden, in the same complex as the modern art museum Moderna Museet. The museum exhibits architecture, urban planning and design. It is an administrative authority under the Ministry of Culture.
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History
The Museum of Architecture was founded in 1962, at the initiative of the National Association of Swedish Architects (Sveriges Arkitekters Riksförbund) as a private foundation. It became nationalized in 1978, when it was housed in buildings previously occupied by the Nautical Chart Department on Skeppsholmen. The new premises were inaugurated in February 1998.
On 28 February 2013, the government issued new instructions for the museum and, on 1 May, changed its name to the Statens centrum för arkitektur och design (The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design). Since the mid-1990s, the museum has been administered by the Ministry of Culture.
Buildings
The ArtDes is housed in two buildings, the Navy's old drill hall, the Exercishuset, and a new building designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo and built in 1994–97, at the same time as the Moderna Museet. The exhibitions are in the old house and the new building, in a functionalistic style, contains offices, a library, an archive and workshops. The Moneo building was awarded the Kasper Salin Prize in 1998.
Function and exhibitions
The Centre has a permanent exhibition and several temporary thematic exhibitions. The permanent exhibition shows Swedish architecture through the ages in models, photos and historical objects.
Two adjacent rooms are dedicated to thematic exhibitions where original drawings, designs and artifacts are displayed. In the archives of the ArkDes are drawings, models and photos of the works of about 500 architects. The museum's library contains journals from the 1930s and onwards, as well as over 24,000 books.
The Centre for Architecture and Design manages the Einar Mattsson's Foundation for Building and Property Research.
In 2013, the ArtDes hosted the exhibition "The fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the sidewalk to the catwalk".
The Centre has cooperated with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of occasions. In 2013 and 2014, Wikimedia Sweden held its annual meeting there, and in 2014, the ArkDes hosted the "Meet Wikipedia" event.