Skissernas Museum

General information

Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art is a unique art museum that focuses on the artistic creative process. It features the world’s largest collection of sketches, models and preparatory work for Swedish and international public art.

Besides encountering art, at Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art you can discover music, films, performances, workshops, tours and much more.

2017 starts with the Grand Opening of the museum on 28 January which is also the date for the first Skissernas Night, one of four eventful Saturday evenings during the year with free admission and ground-breaking guests.

Every Thursday, the museum will be open late, until 21:00. Come straight from work, school or leisure time, bring your friends, eat and drink something nice and take a closer look at the art during these eventful evenings. Together, we will turn these evenings into something special.

For those who want to get inspired by our discussion series on the theme of creative processes, while enjoying a good lunch, our Brown Bag Lunch events take place every other Tuesday.

The museum also has a creative workshop with activities for all ages, but focuses particularly on workshops for children, young teens and families. If you want to discover, learn something new and dive deep into the museum’s collections and temporary exhibitions, we offer tours for all on several days per week.

The large exhibition rooms hold modern and contemporary art – from small pencil drawings to colourful, monumental paintings and large-scale plaster sculptures. There are sketches by international artists such as Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore and Fernand Léger, and one of Europe’s foremost collections of sketches by Mexican monumental painters such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Swedish Gallery exhibits works by Sigrid Hjertén, Isaac Grünewald and Siri Derkert and contemporary artists such as Linn Fernström, Gerhard Nordström and Matthias van Arkel. In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum presents a series of new temporary exhibitions every year, featuring both contemporary and earlier artists. In addition, a rich and varied program is on offer for children, teens and adults with guided tours, artists’ talks, lectures, concerts, performances, creative workshops and much more. The museum also has an extensive image and clip archives on public art from Swedish and international newspapers and magazines from the 1930s until today.

The museum, which was founded in 1934 and is part of Lund University, today consists of connected buildings from six different periods. The most recent extension, designed by Elding Oscarson, gave the museum a new façade towards the museum’s sculpture park with a new entrance, museum shop and restaurant to welcome visitors. The same architects are responsible for the covered inner courtyard, converted into the Birgit Rausing Hall, which is used as a meeting place for various events and functions in the new museum.