Moderna Museet Malmö
Modern and contemporary art in a 1901 power station with a perforated orange extension.
Moderna Museet Malmö opened in 2009 as the southern outpost of Sweden's national museum of modern art. It occupies a former electricity works of 1901 designed by John Smedberg, a brick hall with exposed steel trusses that had already served from 1988 as the exhibition space Rooseum. Tham & Videgård Arkitekter added a new entrance volume clad in perforated, bright orange-red sheet steel, a deliberately assertive marker in a quiet corner of the old town.
The galleries show changing exhibitions drawn from the Moderna Museet collection together with newly produced work by contemporary artists, often with an emphasis on Nordic and Baltic practices and on artists whose work has been overlooked. The double-height main hall, roughly thirteen metres high, allows large installations, while smaller rooms on the upper level suit photography and works on paper. The museum also runs guided tours, artists' talks and family workshops.
Highlights
- Perforated orange steel entrance by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
- Thirteen-metre-high former turbine hall used for large installations
- Changing displays from the national Moderna Museet collection
- The building's earlier life as the Rooseum exhibition hall
