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2 Moderna museet

The Museum of Modern Art is an airy, contemporary building,
designed by the Catalan architect Rafael Moneo in 1998.
The museum has a top-class collection of inter national
and Swedish modern and contemporary art, including
photography and film, from 1900 to the present day.
Built partly underground, the museum includes a cinema,
an auditorium and an exhibition gallery. There is an
excellent bookshop, and the Restaurangen Moderna
Museet has attractive views over the water.

. Green Split (1925)
To ArkDes Painted by Wassily Kandinsky
during his time as a teacher at
the Bauhaus, this work places an
emphasis on geometric shapes.
Bookshop
Main entrance to both
Moderna museet and
ArkDes (see p80).
Entrance level

Restaurangen
Moderna Museet

Auditorium
. Monogram
This work by Robert
Rauschen berg (c.1956)
Cinema includes an angora goat
Middle level with painted nose and
ears, a white car tyre and a
collage with fragments of the
word DADA. A self portrait?
Rafael Moneo
Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) is one of the world’s leading
contemporary architects.
As a young architect he
took part in the project to
build the Sydney Opera
House. His flair for adapting
building design to
sensitive surroundings was
recognized in 1989, when
he was chosen out of 211
Luncheon on the Grass (1962) This entries as the winner of
sculpture group by Picasso, executed the competition to design
in sandblasted concrete by Carl Nesjar, the Moderna museet. Moderna museet’s northern façade
stands in the museum garden.

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