Here you can delve deeper and read about the collections of Nationalmuseum, view images and videos and discover art and design in new ways. You will also find information about the art library, archives and other resources for those who study, research, or are just curious and want to know more.
Explore the Collections
Search and Explore the Collections
In the museum's online database, you can search for information about objects, artists, and manufacturers. Here, there are more than 182,000 of the collection's 700,000 objects, of which over 120,000 have images.
The Collections
Nationalmuseum's collections contain paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints ranging from the Renaissance until turn of the century 1900. The collection of applied arts and design spans from late Medieval up until present day. Nationalmuseum manages the
New Acquisitions
Nationalmuseum’s collections are regularly expanded with new acquisitions. Here, we highlight some of the most interesting additions from the past few months.
Fun and Facts
Nationalmuseum in three minutes
Experience the museum from home! Here is a short video for you who miss the museum or for you who has never visited us but wonder what it's like.
The Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm
The Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is published twice a year and contains articles on the history and theory of art relating to the Nationalmuseum's collections. It contains in-depth studies on the most significant acquisitions in the form of
Transparent designs: Copies and tracings in eighteenth-century architectural practice
How did architects make copies of their own designs and of other architects' designs before duplicating machines? A collection of tracings in the Nationalmuseum shows us eighteenth-century copying practices by the architects Carl Hårleman and Carl Johan
Treasures from the Archives and Art Library
The art library’s and the archives’ collections of literature, magazines, letters, news clips, records and much more contain many exiting treasures.
Resources for Research and Studies
Images
The National Museum Image Archives contain more than a million images. There are images of the museum’s artworks as well as those describing the history of the museum. There are also images of the staff and of other museums’ objects and collections.
The Art Library
The Art Library is one of Scandinavia's largest specialist libraries on art, photography and design. The library is a shared resource for staff and researchers at Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet and is also open to the public.
The Museum Archives
The Archives include the public records of the Museum and the Artists Archives.
The Study Room for Drawings and Prints
The The Study room for drawings and prints is open to visitors by appointment only.