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11/8/2002

Moderna Museet c/o

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

MODERNA MUSEET'S BUILDING CLOSED FOR RENOVATION - NEW ADDRESS IN CENTRAL STOCKHOLM

After comprehensive investigations and analyses in autumn 2001, it was confirmed that the building, inaugurated in 1998, housing Moderna Museet was suffering from serious structural and environmental problems. The primary sources for these concerns where linked to the building's highly advanced ventilation system combined with penetration of moisture from the bedrock on which the museum is lies. As a result, the National Property Board made the decision to close the building in January 2002.

Moderna Museet's new temporary quarters opened on June 15th at Klarabergsviadukten 61, next door to the Central Station and the Airport Bus Terminal. Despite the fact that we were forced to close the museum building, we are delighted about what has happened since. Uncertainty and chance can also be fun and enriching! The situation put the staff members' as well as my own creativity to the test; and we will certainly profit from our experiences when we move back into our healthy building on the islet of Skeppsholmen at the turn of the year 2003/2004.

A variety of exhibitions will be shown at Klarabergsviadukten 61. Here visitors also can find our photo library, educational workshop, bookshop and venues for seminars or discussions. Our visitors can relax with a cup of coffee or a meal in our new restaurant MM Mat with its view overlooking Stockholm's busy center.

This summer, we are showing a selection of our newest acquisitions. Though the museum is continually involved in purchasing art, it's not always that the works can be immediately exhibited. Many of the works shown this summer are on display for the fist time at the museum. In mid-August, we will commence our "Odd Weeks", rotating new exhibitions by well-known artists every other week. Moderna Museet will also pop up here and there within Sweden and across the world under the name "Moderna Museet c/o". We'll be rather nomadic for a while.

In addition to our program of exhibitions; our offices, conservation studios, carpentry workshop, photo studio and all the other behind the scenes operations required to run the museum are also relocated at Klarabergsviadukten 61. This is our base for the moment, but it is temporary and will not replace our ordinary museum building. Our content is different here. For instance, our collection of classics will not be shown at Klarabergsviadukten. We have instead, offered other Swedish institutions access to the greater part of the collection. In this way, we hope the general public will continue to have access to and enjoy these works of art.

Although the move and the events around it have been involuntary, this period will be of great importance and uniquely challenging in Moderna Museet's history. We hope that we along side our public, will remember this time as an invaluable experience.

Welcome to Moderna Museet c/o!

Lars Nittve Director

Image: Carsten Höller Waterwalker, 2000

For further questions, please contact Press Officer Paulina Sokolow at +46 8 51955279.

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