On 24 March 2011, Nationalmuseum opens the doors to Lust & Vice, a major exhibition filling three rooms and five display cases. Over 200 works from the 16th century to the present day, mostly little-known treasures from the museum’s own collection, will illustrate how views of sexuality, virtue and morality have changed over the centuries.
Nationalmuseum’s new bookshop is a way to meet the increasing demand from customers who wants to buy books online. The bookshop makes it possible for both private persons and distributors, national as well as international, to order Nationalmuseum’s art books through the Internet.
On 30 September, Nationalmuseum opens its autumn exhibition Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander. The exhibition presents 410 artifacts in their historical context, all of which have some connection with one or other of the protagonists. The lives of the three rulers are interwoven with art in an unprecedented exhibition on the art of governing through art.
Staging Power. Napoleon, Charles John, Alexander
This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents a majestic exhibition about the art
of governing through art. The three protagonists Napoleon, Charles John
and Alexander were all skilled at using art to demonstrate legitimacy
and to strengthen their position. This magnificent work published in
conjunction with the exhibition presents new research
This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents the magnificent exhibition Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander. On show will be some 420 items - a collection of portraits, costumes, jewellery and other art wares – all telling a story of honour and power. The exhibition is about the art of governing through art.
Nationalmuseum’s summer exhibition At Home – Scandinavian Interiors opened on 16 June. The exhibition shows how the home has been portrayed by some of Scandinavia’s best-loved artists during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a series of seldom-seen works from the museums own collection.
Flemish Paintings c. 1600 – c. 1800 is the third and final volume in a series of catalogues raisonnés dealing with Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Nationalmuseum. This volume covers famous painters like Anthonis van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel I, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders and Jan Fyt, but also less known artists.
This summer’s exhibition, At Home – Scandinavian Interiors, focuses on the home as a motif. Presenting works primarily from Nationalmuseum’s own collections, it will show some of the ways the home has been depicted in art, and how interior design trends have evolved. The exhibition opens on 16 June and runs until 15 August.
As part of Sweden’s Bernadotte Year, Nationalmuseum is presenting an exhibition of black-and-white portraits of the House of Bernadotte, The Bernadottes in Black and White. This autumn, Nationalmuseum joins forces with the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, to present a magnificent exhibition on the art of governing through art, Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander.
