Exhibitions
00-TAL
What has the 21st century looked like in Sweden with regard to interior design, buildnings and landscapes? This exhibition sums up the decade now past and show 50 projects selected by a jury. >Read more
Design S
Sweden's Design S design award singles out the most innovative and creative design in recent years. The exhibition is made in collaboration with Svensk Form, SVID, CfN and Riksutställningar. >Read more
The Stockholm Exhibition 1930
An exhibition featuring Gustav W. Cronquist's unique colour photographs from The Stockholm Exhibition in 1930. >Read more
Permanent Exhibition:
Architecture in Sweden
Architecture in Sweden – Function, Design and Aesthetic through the Ages – is the title of the new base activity at Swedish Museum of Architecture. Here Swedish architecture is debated and discussed. >Read more
Upcoming exhibitions
Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition
This autumn the Swedish Museum of Architecture and Formmuseets vänner will be jointly arranging Stockholm’s first-ever Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
Connecting-Stockholm
Sara Göransson and Filipe Balestra from Urban Nouveau* have designed a long-term strategy for turning the segregated capital of Sweden into a network city. >Read more
Acoustics
The Museum of Architecture is joining forces with Björn Hellström from Konstfack and consulting engineers Tyréns, and Peter Lundén from the Interactive Institute in two smaller exhibitions looking at acoustics and urban planning. >Read more
Past exhibitions
Pedagogical carpet design
An exhibition made of 75 kilometers of yarn displaying ten proposals for a new carpet to the new pedagogical workshop.
Home sweet home with a pinch of hubris
Artistic architecture photography by Karolina Henke, portaying buildnings by Jordens arkitekter.
Anniversaries
An exhibition celebrating the 125-year anniversaries of some of Sweden's most famous architects.
Greta Magnusson Grossman
The first extensive retrospective with the work of Swedish-American designer and architect Greta Magnusson Grossman. February 10th - May 16th. >Read more
Claesson Koivisto Rune
An exhibition presenting ten of Claesson Koivisto Rune's architectural projects in detail. >Read more
MakeWay
An extensive exhibition that investigates the super large and the small, the expensive and the cheap, as well as the soft and hard issues of contemporary Swedish infrastructure. >Read more
Woodland Crematorium II
The winner of an invited project competition for a new crematorium on the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm will be decided this October. The proposals are to be shown in a small exhibition at Arkitekturmuseet.
Building Sustainable Communities
An exhibition that focuses on the social and ethical responsibilities of Danish architects, in a perspective of sustainable global development. In 21 examples the contributions of architects, planners, and engineers to an improved life quality of people well beyond their own national borders are put on display.
Re-sampling ornament
100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a text that relegated ornament to the peripheries of the architectural discourse, “Re-sampling Ornament” takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence. >Read more
Young Swedish Design
A recurring exhibition with the objective to promote young designers. This years version features a great number of young, bold, inquisitive and ecologically sustainable design.
103.39' minutes art movies
In collaboration with the movie archive Filmform Arkitekturmuseet proudly presents three short movie programs on the theme gender, architecture and space.
Architect Sverre Fehn
50 years ago Sverre Fehn was first acknowledged for the Norwegian pavillion for the world expo of Brussels. Since then he has been involved in the design of over 100 projects. >Read more
A villa in Falsterbo
In 1933 the golf interested family Edstrand comissioned Sigurd Lewerentz to design their summer house. Throughout four years of discussions the project evolves into a modern home. >Read more
Gingerbread houses 2008
The theme for Arkitekturmuseets annual gingerbread competition was 2008;
R-eko: Good ideas for troublesome times. >Read more
Tabula rasa
November 6-December 7, 2008
Boris Svartzman’s photos describe the changing building cultures of China.
Lucy+Jorge Orta
September 9-November 2, 2008.
A small exhibition which presents a selection of works by the artistic partnership of Lucy + Jorge Orta. >Read more
Eating out: pavement cafés in Stockholm
June 11-September 21, 2008
This summer, as a tribute to the pavement café, the Swedish Museum of Architecture is presenting five of them, from Stockholm. The material comes from the Holger Blom Collection. >Read more
Sandcity
June 17-August 14, 2008.
Sandcity is a mobile site-specific project where artist Jenny Berntsson have been constructing sandcities at different locations around the world. >Read more
On cities
March 4-May 4, 2008
Guided by the works on display the exhibition provides an opportunity to contemplate our changing relationship to cities and other forms of urban environments. >Read more
Dimensions on Wood
February 6-March 30, 2008
This exhibition presents Aalto’s relationship with tradition, innovation and nature through the medium of construction, rhythm, detail and changes in form. >Read more
Helldén + Bærtling
October 6-January 13, 2008
An exhibition about the collaboration between the architect David Helldén and the artist Olle Bærtling, architecture and art during the modern movement. >Read more
Berlin Projects: Photographs by Hélène Binet
October 9- January 27, 2008.
Photographs of buildings in Berlin by Hélène Binet. >Read more
Gingerbread Houses
December 4-January 6, 2008
The museum’s annual exhibition with Gingerbread houses. >Read more
Berlin above and below ground
September 13-January 6, 2008
An exhibition about Alfred Grenander, the architect behind the Berlin subway system. >Read more
A+URL/Works In Process
March 27-September 23, 2007
An exhibition by the studio A+URL highlighting globalization and its effect on architecture and urbanism. >Read more
SANAA
May 15-August 19, 2007
An exhibition about the internationally acclaimed Japanese architecture office SANAA. >Read more
Bruno Mathsson
March 22-June 10, 2007
The museum's full-length Bruno Mathsson exhibition were on display at Bard Graduate Center in New York. >Read more
The New Library
February 14-April 21, 2007
The exhibition presents the six finalists in the international architectural competition for an extension to the Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund. >Read more
Arctic Cities: Kiruna, Oulu, Tromsø
December 7-January 21, 2007
The Nordic Pavilion from The Architecture Biennale will be on display at the The Finnish Architecture Museum. >Read more
Gingerbread Houses 2006
December 5-January 7, 2007
The entries from the annual Gingerbread House Competition were on display at The Swedish Museum of Architecture. >Read more
Älvmageddon
October 3-December 3, 2006
A thought-provoking exhibition how extreme climate change will affect the planning of cities in the future. >Read more
Kengo Kuma
September 26-November 26, 2006
An exhibition on the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.
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Imports: Extra-European influences
June 8-September 24, 2006
In the exhibition we showed some examples of Swedish buildings and their prototypes. >Read more
Homes and homemaking in Sweden: 50 years of Allt i hemmet
May 18-August 20, 2006
The exhibition showed different trends which has been on focus in the magazine Allt i hemmet. >Read more
Sámi Parliament
March 21–May 28, 2006
The Architecture Museum presented the five finalists in the architecture competition for a new Same Parliament building in Kiruna. >Read more
Young, Swedish Architecture
September 21-January 8, 2006
This exhibition presented a new generation of architects – children of the 60s and 70s who are beginning to make names for themselves in Sweden. >Read more
Restoration: The Dissolution of Ideologies
May 26-September 25.
If there is an ideology of restoration today, what does it look like? >Read more
Claesson Koivisto Rune - The models
June 7-September 9, 2005
The emphasis of the Museum’s summer exhibition was on the architect’s working process, in particular the working methods of the office of Claesson Koivisto Rune. >Read more
The Architecture of Per Friberg
April 26-August 29, 2005
A small exhibition about the architect Per Friberg. >Read more
Visualised in Venice
February 17-May 15, 2005
Eight contemporary buildings in Sweden, Finland and Norway were presented in the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice biennial. >Read more
Masonite
Januari 27- April 17, 2005
The Architecture Museum presented a selection of entries from the competition for best design and building application for Masonite. >Read more
Architecture 1900
December 4-January 30, 2005
Architecture 1900 was a touring exhibition about the architecture around the Baltic Sea at the turn of the century 1900. >Read more
Mies van der Rohe Award 2003
October 9-November 21, 2005
The exhibition presented 41 projects selected by the jury of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. >Read more
Tage William-Olsson
August 31-November 7, 2004
An exhibition about Tage William-Olsson, the architect of the Slussen multi-level intersection. >Read more
Two Urban Models: Tokyo and Stockholm
August 5-September 26, 2004
The exhibition showed two models, one of Tokyo and one of Stockholm, in the same scale, 1:1000. >Read more
A matter of Art: Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland
August 25-September 26, 2004
Portrayal of 16 buildings constructed 1997-2000, offering a section of Switzerland's most recent architecture. >Read more
The Great Restorations
May 27-August 8, 2004
The exhibition viewed the restoration art of different periods through the eyes of present-day restorers. >Read more
Revision: MAMA on the Construction of History
February 14-July 18, 2004
The exhibition set out to show that there are various parallel narratives, perspectives and points of departure for describing the history of architecture. >Read more