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The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (Template:Lang-sv) or ArkDes, previously known as the Museum of Architecture (Arkitekturmuseet), is a Swedish national museum dedicated to architecture and design. It is located on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden, in the same complex as Moderna Museet. The museum exhibits architecture, urban planning and design under its current director Kieran Long. It is an administrative authority under the Ministry of Culture.
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 was nationalized in 1978, at which point it was housed in buildings previously occupied by the Nautical Chart Department on Skeppsholmen. The new premises, designed by the Pritzker Prize laureate Rafael Moneo following an international competition, were inaugurated in February of 1998.[1]
On 28February 2013, the government issued new instructions for the museum and, on 1May, 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.[1]
ArkDes is housed in two buildings, the Navy's old drill hall, Exercishuset,[2] and a more recently constructed building designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo constructed between 1994 and 1997.[3] The permanent and temporary exhibition halls stand in historic buildings designed by Fredrik Blom and the new building, designed in a functionalistic style,[3] contains offices, a library, research rooms, workshops, and archives holding the State Architecture Collection. The Moneo building was awarded the Kasper Salin Prize in 1998.[4] In June 2018, a new temporary exhibition space, Boxen,[5] was opened to designs by Dehlin Brattgård Architects.[6]
Function and exhibitions
ArkDes has a permanent exhibition and several temporary thematic exhibitions.[7] The permanent exhibition presents Swedish architecture through the ages in models, photographs, and historical objects.[8]
Other spaces are dedicated to thematic exhibitions which explore contemporary architecture and design, alongside historical shows.[9] In ArkDes' archival collections are drawings, models and photographs of the works of around 500 architects. The museum's library contains journals from the 1930s onwards, as well as over 24,000 books.[10]
The Centre for Architecture and Design manages the Einar Mattsson's Foundation for Building and Property Research.[11]
In 2013, the ArkDes hosted the exhibition "The fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the sidewalk to the catwalk".[12]
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.[13]
Zimm, Malin, ed. (2012). Om femtio år med Arkitekturmuseet [About fifty years with the Museum of Architecture]. Arkitekturmuseets årsbok, 99-0226497-2 ; 2010–2012 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Arkitekturmuseet. ISBN9789185460861.
Exhibits building
Exhibits building
Administration building
Administration building
Permanent exhibits hall
Old Katarina Elevator, model
Temporary exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk", 2013
