About Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum is Sweden's museum of art and design. Nationalmuseum is also a government authority with a mandate to preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art. The collections comprise of painting, sculpture, drawings and prints from 1500-1900 and applied arts, design and portraits from early Middle Ages up until present day.
News
Stockholm 5 December 2019
Rare Objects in Argent Haché acquired by Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum has recently acquired a number of rare objects made of silver plated brass, known as argent haché, from the late 18th century. Few of these objects have survived to the present day, and the museum’s collections had thus previously lacked
Stockholm 8 november 2019
Nationalmuseum acquires two self-portraits by Joseph Ducreux
Nationalmuseum has acquired two physiognomic self-portraits painted by the French artist, Joseph Ducreux, one of the foremost artists at the court of Louis XVI. Ducreux’s portraiture exhibits strong influences of naturalism and is characterized by the
Stockholm 10 oktober 2019
Nyförvärv: Verner Åkermans skulptur av Pierre Louis Alexandre
Nationalmuseum har nyligen förvärvat en skulptur i terrakotta av Verner Åkerman föreställande Pierre Louis Alexandre. Pierre Louis Alexandre är främst känd som modell vid Konstakademien under senare delen av 1800-talet och det finns många bevarade studier
Stockholm 24 september 2019
Alexander Tallén receives this year’s Young Applied Artists award
The 2019 Young Applied Artists goes to the ceramist Alexander Tallén from Stockholm. With a fascination for a smaller format, he presents the times we live in as figurines, displaying inspirations from the 18th century.
Stockholm 12 September 2019
New acquisition: Two Flemish masterpieces
Nationalmuseum has acquired two important oil paintings by Frans Francken the Younger and Daniel Seghers, both influential artists in 17th-century Antwerp, the Golden Age of Flemish art.
Stockholm 30 July 2019
Nyförvärv: Målning av den franske konstnären Coupin de la Couperie
Nationalmuseum recently acquired a work by French painter Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie. The painting is called Raphael Adjusts Fornarina’s Hair Before Painting her Portrait and was put on display at the Saloon in 1824.
Stockholm 16 July 2019
A five-year long acquisition project of Danish art at Nationalmuseum has been concluded
When the Danish Golden Age exhibition at Nationalmuseum comes to an end on 21 July and moves on to Copenhagen, a chapter in the history of the museum will also come to an end. It will mark the end of an acquisition project of paintings from the Danish Golden
Stockholm June 28, 2019
New acquisition: Works by female artists working in France in the 1880s
Artworks by Elisabeth Keyser, Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz, Jenny Nyström and Gerda Tirén, important additions to the collections in order to be able to present a more complete picture of what the art scene was actually like in the late 1800s.
Stockholm 29 May, 2019
Nationalmuseum acquires illustrations for Elsa Beskow’s The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman
Nationalmuseum has acquired the illustrations for the reworked edition of the beloved book The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman, created in the late 1940’s. The book was Elsa Beskow’s debut piece and was first published in 1897.
Stockholm 8 May 2019
New acquisition: Glass installation by Ingalena Klenell
A bold and innovative example of glass in our time, commenting on man's relationship to nature.
Stockholm 22 March 2019
New Acquisition: Three English Miniaturists
An important addition to the museum’s collection of portrait miniatures, which is one of the foremost in the world.
Stockholm 22 January 2019
Exhibition about the furniture architect Finn Juhl at Nationalmuseum
In the spring and summer of 2019, Nationalmuseum will mount an exhibition about the Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl.
Stockholm 18 January 2019
Nyförvärv: två porträtteckningar från 1700-talet
Nationalmuseum has acquired two 18th century portrait drawings: a self-portrait of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée and a depiction of an an unknown woman by Johann-Ernst Heinsius,
Stockholm 21 November 2018
New Acquisition: Boats in Front of the Grotto in the Park at Méréville by Hubert Robert
Stockholm August 17, 2018
New Acquisition: Portrait of retired farmer P.A. Söderström, by Sune Jonsson
Stockholm 21 February 2018
New acquisition: Queen Kristina entering Paris in 1656 by François Chavueau
Stockholm 17 januari 2018
New acquisition: The sculpture ”Struggle for existence” by Agnes de Frumerie
