Moderna Museet

I’m not the biggest fan of their main exhibition, but the two times I’ve been to Moderna Museet myself, there’s always been something REALLY cool at the temporary exhibitions. Way more than one really cool thing, even. In addition, the rooms are pretty and light (even when it’s really grey and dark outside) and their museum shop is amazing. It’s big, there’s a great variation in sorts of art (paintings, installations, interactive art, photography) and I guess it’s easy for everyone who’s only a little bit into modern art, to like this museum.
If you’re able to go before mid January 2016: GO, as there’s quite a big Olafur Eliasson-​exhibition right now, and I guess it’s really hard to not like his work. I was surprised by the variation in installations and the fact it has 19 (!) of his works, some even made especially for Moderna Museet.

Situé sur Skeppsholmen, le Moderna Museet a été une agréable découverte.
L’entrée au musée est gratuite le vendredi soir de 18h à 20h (au lieu de 120kr = 12 €), et quand on est à Stockholm, il n’y a pas de petites économies :)
La collection présentée n’est pas très grande mais elle vaut vraiment la peine d’être vue :
Duchamp côtoie, Klein, Warhol, Dali, Matisse et Polock et c’est toujours un plaisir de retrouver ces maitres «réunis» dans un même espace.
Le musée n’étant pas très très grand on peut y aller accompagné en même temps des enfants et des grands-​parents sans avoir peur que les uns s’ennuient et que les autres fatiguent.
C’est un grand OUI!

Always worth a visit. Even if their main exhibition isn’t for you, they will have something. Great shop, awesome cafés, lovely ambience in the whole building.

The price was outrageous for 4 rooms of junk. One room was entirely devoted to toilet paper. I like modern art but this was ridiculous. It may have been the exhibit but if other ones are like this, save your money.

The Museum of Modern Art is a must in Stockholm, above all for their permanent exhibition. This state-​run museum is located on one of the islands in the city, in a building by the Spanish architect Moneo. Beside the exhibitions there is a museum shop, a couple of cafés and a restaurant. The latter has an amazing view for enjoying a lunch.
Yes, many of the traveling exhibitions are superb, and where they that last few years have had some really amazing ones on display. The forte though is its permanent exhibition with some amazing works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg (his goat with a tire around it’s belly); not to forget Meret Oppenheim’s «Ma gouvernante — My Nurse — Mein Kindermädchen». Many of these works stems from a bequest from the museum’s first director Pontus Hultén.
The permanent exhibition can be found both in the museum but also in the garden outside, where e.g. Niki de Saint Phalle has some amazing sculptures.

Musée d’art moderne situé sur l’agréable «île aux musées «(non, on n’est pas à Berlin) de Skeppsholmen, à côté du musée d’architecture et de design. Pour y accéder, on peut marcher, via une agréable promenade le long des quais puis le pont qui relie l’île au reste de la ville, ou bien prendre le bateau (prix compris dans la carte 24h des transports en commun de la ville) depuis Slussen.
Le musée en lui-​même est relativement petit et mêle collections permanentes et expositions temporaires d’une manière assez confuse (on a vite fait de passer des unes aux autres sans faire attention…). L’avantage est qu’on a fait le tour assez vite sans overdose. Né loupez pas une partie annexe des collections consacrée au surréalisme et au dadaïsme, un étage plus bas que l’étage principal, très intéressante et dont l’entrée est comprise dans le billet.
Petite râlerie pour garder la main: le musée cède à la mode déjà constatée ailleurs de poser les cartels (notes explicatives sur l’œuvre) uniquement sur les murs des salles d’exposition. Quand c’est pour un tableau accroché au mur, ça va, mais jeu de piste assuré quand plusieurs sculptures sont disposées au centre de la salle.

We visited this museum yesterday and liked it very much. The building’s interior is bright & airy, and it’s in a pleasant/​peaceful area by the water. Admittedly the permanent collection isn’t «stellar», but there were some interesting pieces — and right now they have a really good exhibit of Niki St. Phalle’s work.
The gift shop has a *terrific* and extensive selection of books. There’s a small café where the two workers were very friendly, and also a restaurant (we didn’t eat there). The man at the ticket counter was very friendly and helpful, plus he had a great sense of humor.
Lastly, there are several huge/​very colorful and whimsical Calder sculptures across the street from the museum’s front entrance.

The museum is set in beautiful surroundings. The building is great. The design and signage and the general space is nice to explore. But the work is really skimpy. I’ve seen better examples of work by the artists on show, for sale in galleries in Cork Street, London. It’s worth a visit and the restaurant was great.

I went to see the Yoko Ono «Grapefruit» exhibit here. It was amazing but the other rooms drew me in just as strongly. Wall after wall had something that caught my attention (which, honestly, does NOT happen much in museums as much as I may act like it does).
Going through the Grapefruit/​Explosion exhibits made me feel almost every human emotion from pure elation, curiosity down to absolute disgust (if you go to see the exhibit or have gone through it, you’ll know what piece I’m talking about)
I found Picasso, Sturtevant, Hermann Nitsch and other more well-​known artists here, as well.
It absolutely exceeded my expectations from just the walk up (which has amazing views) to the outside art fixtures and all the way inside. Highly recommend coming here if you’re in Stockholm, whether for just sightseeing or business. Worth every krona!