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{{Infobox museum
| name = Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
| native_name = Statens centrum för arkitektur och design
| native_name_lang = Swedish
| logo = ArkDes.png
| image =
| caption = ArkDes (Arkitektur- och designcentrum)
| map_type = Sweden Stockholm Municipality
| map_caption = Location of ArkDes in [[Stockholm]]
| coordinates = {{coord|59|19|33|N|18|05|06|E|region:SE-AB|display=inline,title}}
| former_name = Museum of Architecture (''Arkitekturmuseet'')
| established = {{Start date|1962|df=y}}
| dissolved = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} -->
| location = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
| type = Architecture and design museum
| accreditation = 
| key_holdings = 
| collections = 
| collection_size = {{hlist|{{circa}} 3,000,000 drawings and documents|600,000 photos|2,000 [[Scale model|models]]}}<ref name=gov />
| visitors = 
| founder = ''Sveriges Arkitekter, SA'' (Architects of Sweden)
| director = Karin Nilsson (Acting)
| owner = [[Government of Sweden]]
| publictransit = Bus to ''ArkDes/Moderna Museet''
| website = [http://www.arkdes.se/ www.arkdes.se]
}}

The '''Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design''' ({{lang-sv|Statens centrum för arkitektur och design}}) or '''ArkDes''', previously known as the Museum of Architecture (''Arkitekturmuseet''), is a Swedish national museum dedicated to architecture and design. It is located on the island of [[Skeppsholmen]] in [[Stockholm]], Sweden, in the same complex as [[Moderna Museet]]. The museum exhibits [[architecture]], [[land-use planning|urban planning]] and [[design]] under its current acting director Karin Nilsson. It is an administrative authority under the [[Ministry of Culture (Sweden)|Ministry of Culture]].

== History ==
The Museum of Architecture was founded in 1962 at the initiative of the National Association of Swedish Architects (''Sveriges Arkitekters Riksförbund'') as a private foundation. It was nationalized in 1978, at which point it was housed in buildings previously occupied by the [[Nautical Chart Department (Sweden)|Nautical Chart Department]] on Skeppsholmen. The new premises, designed by the [[Pritzker Architecture Prize|Pritzker Prize]] laureate [[Rafael Moneo]] following an international competition, were inaugurated in February 1998.<ref name=gov />

On 28{{nbsp}}February 2013, the [[Government of Sweden|government]] issued new instructions for the museum and, on 1{{nbsp}}May, changed its name to the ''Statens centrum för arkitektur och design'' (The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design). Since the mid-1990s, the museum has been administered by the Ministry of Culture.<ref name=gov />

The museum closed for renovation on 27 September 2023<ref>{{cite web|title=ArkDes closed for refurbishment
|url=https://arkdes.se/en/news/arkdes-closed-for-refurbishment/|website=www.arkdes.se|publisher=ArkDes|accessdate=9 August 2024}}</ref> and is currently in the process of delivering a new collection exhibition, new temporary exhibition spaces, and a new entrance. The museum is scheduled to reopen on 27 September 2024.<ref>{{cite web|title=MYCKET: Utsikten
|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/613790/mycketutsikten/|website=www.e-flux.com|publisher=e-flux Architecture|accessdate=9 August 2024}}</ref> On 20 June 2024, the [[Government of Sweden|government]] announced an investigation to explore how ArkDes and [[Moderna Museet]] can be merged into a single national authority, to be completed before 31 January 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=Möjligheten till inordnande av myndigheter ska utredas|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2024/06/regeringen-utreder-mojligheten-till-inordnande-av-myndigheter/|website=www.regeringen.se|publisher=Government of Sweden|accessdate=9 August 2024}}</ref>

== Buildings ==
ArkDes is housed in two buildings, the [[Swedish Navy|Navy]]’s old drill hall, ''[[Exercishuset]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=MODERNA MUSEET, ARKITEKTURMUSEET (EXERCISHUSET) (akt.)|url=http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/byggnad/visaHistorik.raa?byggnadId=21400000328269&page=historik&visaHistorik=true|website=www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se|publisher=[[Swedish National Heritage Board]]|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref> and a more recently constructed building designed by the Spanish architect [[Rafael Moneo]] constructed between 1994 and 1997.<ref name =Moneo>{{cite book|last1=Moneo|first1=Rafael|author-link1=Rafael Moneo|last2=Mårtelius|first2=Johan|last3=Jewson|first3=William|last4=Lidman|first4=Åke E:son|title=Modern Museum and Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm|date=1998|publisher=Arkitektur|location=Stockholm|isbn=91-87214-76-8|language=Swedish|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/7763178}}</ref> The permanent and temporary exhibition halls stand in historic buildings designed by [[Fredrik Blom]] and the new building, designed in a [[Functionalism (architecture)|functionalistic]] style,<ref name=Moneo /> contains offices, a library, research rooms, workshops, and archives holding the State Architecture Collection. The Moneo building was awarded the [[Kasper Salin Prize]] in 1998.<ref name=sfv>{{cite web|last1=Schiratzki|first1=Malin|title=Kasper Salinpriset till Arkitekturmuseum|url=http://www.sfv.se/globalassets/kulturvarden/1998_04/baksida-kasper_salinpriset_till_arkitekturmuseet.pdf|website=www.sfv.se|publisher=[[National Property Board of Sweden]]|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref> In June 2018, a new temporary exhibition space, ''Boxen'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/boxen/|title=Boxen – ArkDes utställningsrum med samtida design och arkitektur|website=ArkDes – Sveriges nationella centrum för arkitektur och design|language=sv-SE|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> was opened to designs by Dehlin Brattgård Architects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/911545/boxen-dehlin-brattgard-arkitekter|title=Boxen at ArkDes / Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter|date=2019-02-18|website=ArchDaily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref>

== Function ==
ArkDes has a permanent exhibition and several temporary thematic exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Utställningar|url=http://www.arkdes.se/utstallningar|website=www.arkdes.se|publisher=ArkDes|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref> The permanent exhibition presents Swedish architecture through the ages in drawings, [[Scale model|models]], photographs, and historical objects.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rörby|first1=Martin|title=Arkitektur i Sverige: funktion, konstruktion och estetik genom tiderna|date=2004|publisher=Arkitekturmuseet|location=Stockholm|isbn=9185460702|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PC8GNQAACAAJ}}</ref>

Other spaces are dedicated to thematic exhibitions which explore contemporary architecture and design, alongside historical shows.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/utstallningar/|title=Utställningar|website=ArkDes – Sveriges nationella centrum för arkitektur och design|language=sv-SE|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> In ArkDes' archival collections are drawings, models and photographs of the works of around 500 architects. The museum's library contains journals from the 1930s onwards, as well as over 24,000 books.<ref>{{cite web|title=Arkitekturmuseets bibliotek|url=http://archive-se.com/page/161232/2012-07-19/http://www.hissbiblioteken.se/taxonomy/term/216|website=www.archive-se.com|publisher=HISS|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>

ArkDes manages the Einar Mattsson's Foundation for Building and Property Research.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fröjd|first1=Mattias|title=Einar Mattsson-stipendiater är utsedda|url=http://fastighetsnytt.se/2012/11/einar-mattsson-stipendiater-ar-utsedda/|website=www.fastighetsnytt.se|publisher=Fastighetsnytt|date=20 November 2012|language=Swedish|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>

The Centre has cooperated with the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] on a number of occasions. In 2013 and 2014, Wikimedia Sweden held its annual meeting there, and in 2014, the ArkDes hosted the “Meet Wikipedia” event.<ref>{{cite web|title=Träffa Wikipedia|url=http://www.arkdes.se/articles/traffa-wikipedia|website=www.arkdes.se|publisher=ArkDes|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>

== Notable exhibitions ==
ArkDes has hosted a number of notable temporary exhibitions and collaborations. In 2010, ArkDes hosted the exhibition “Greta Magnusson Grossman: From Stockholm to Beverly Hills”, an exhibition of pre-war furniture design and experimental architecture of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/greta-magnusson-grossman-fran-stockholm-till-beverly-hills/|title=Greta Magnusson Grossman: From Stockholm to Beverly Hills|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> In 2013, the museum presented “The Fashion World of [[Jean-Paul Gaultier]]: From the sidewalk to the catwalk”.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/arkitekturmuseet-visar-gaultier_6604248|title=Arkitekturmuseum visar Gaultier|last1=Stockholm TT Spektra|date=2 November 2011|newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]]|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref> In 2014 ArkDes hosted “Blockholm”, an exhibition based on a transfer of Stockholm’s land data into [[Minecraft]] to create an exact, full-scale representation of the Swedish capital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/blockholm-den-fantastiska-staden/|title=Blockholm: The Amazing City|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref>

In 2015 a collaboration between ArkDes and [[Moderna Museet]] presented the work of Danish-Icelandic artist [[Olafur Eliasson]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/olafur-eliasson-verklighetsmaskiner/|title=Olafur Eliasson: Reality machines|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> and in 2016 a similar collaboration resulted in a major exhibition of the work of the Japanese artist [[Yayoi Kusama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/yayoi-kusama-i-oandligheten/|title=Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> In 2017, ArkDes exhibited a major monographic exhibition on the Austrian-Swedish architect [[Josef Frank (architect)|Josef Frank]] in a collaboration with the [[Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna|MAK]] in Vienna<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mak.at/en/program/exhibitions/josef_frank|title=Josef Frank: Against Design (MAK)|last=|first=|date=|website=www.mak.at|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> alongside an exhibition on the HI-group design collective.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/hi-gruppen/|title=The HI-group: Craftsmanship in the Plastic Age|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref>

Since 2017, under the directorship of Kieran Long, the museum has presented a number of temporary exhibitions in its main hall and in ''Boxen'', a “machine for fast-changing, experimental exhibitions”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/27/boxen-dehlin-brattgard-arkitekter-arkdes-museum-stockholm/|title=Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter creates "robust machine for experimental exhibitions" at ArkDes museum|date=2019-02-27|website=Dezeen|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> These have included: “Public Luxury”, an exhibition “about architecture, design and the struggle for public life”;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/public-luxury/|title=Public Luxury|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> “The Future Starts Here”, an exhibition made in collaboration with the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] exploring the relationships between design and technology;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/the-future-starts-here/|title=The Future Starts Here – from V&A in London|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> “Space Popular: Value in the Virtual”, a project exploring [[Virtual reality|Virtual Reality]], architecture and urbanism;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/space-popular-value-in-the-virtual/|title=Space Popular: Value in the Virtual – ArkDes|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> the culminating edition of the [[Cruising Pavilion]]; and an exhibition exploring the prefabricated concrete panel curated by Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/flygande-betong-byggelementen-som-forandrade-varlden/|title=Flying Panels: How Concrete Panels Changed the World|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> In 2020, Boxen hosted the world’s first museum exhibition exploring the creative field of [[ASMR]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/31/this-way-for-a-braingasm-asmr-gets-a-tingly-exhibition|title=This way for brain tingles: ASMR gets a shiver-inducing exhibition|last=|first=|date=31 March 2020|website=The Guardian|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/asmr-weird-sensation-feels-good/|title=WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: An Exhibition About ASMR – ArkDes|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-17}}</ref> As a result of [[COVID-19]] it had a virtual opening;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/video/325072/arkdes-nbsp-presents-a-virtual-vernissage-weird-sensation-feels-good/|title=ArkDes presents a virtual vernissage of WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: An exhibition about ASMR|last=|first=|date=|website=e-flux Architecture|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-17}}</ref>  the exhibition opened at the [[Design Museum]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR |url=https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/weird-sensation-feels-good-the-world-of-asmr |website=Design Museum |access-date=14 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> A monographic exhibition centred on the Swedish architect [[Sigurd Lewerentz]] opened in 2021. An eponymous book was published by Park Books.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Long, Örn, Andersson |title=Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life |date=2021 |publisher=Park Books, ArkDes |location=Zurich |isbn=978-3-03860-232-3 |pages=712 |edition=1 |url=https://www.park-books.com/index.php?pd=pb&lang=en&page=books&book=1264 |access-date=29 September 2022}}</ref>

ArkDes hosts the annual “Gingerbread House” competition each December.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/gingerbread-house-2019/|title=Gingerbread House 2019|last=|first=|date=|website=ArkDes – Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref>

== Directors ==
[[File:Kieran Long portrait.jpg|alt=Kieran Long|thumb|[[Kieran Long]], director of ArkDes between 2017 and 2024]]
*Karin Nilsson, Acting Director, January 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arkdes.se/en/news/karin-nilsson-appointed-acting-director-at-arkdes/|title=Karin Nilsson appointed Acting Director at ArkDes|date=31 January 2024|publisher=ArkDes}}</ref>
*[[Kieran Long]], 2017 – 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2017/02/kieran-long-ny-overintendent-pa-arkdes/|title=Press release från the Ministry of Culture in Sweden|date=10 September 2018|publisher=[[Government of Sweden]]}}</ref>
*Kerstin Brunnberg, Interim Director, July 2014 – July 2015<ref name="gov">{{cite web|title=Statens centrum för arkitektur och design|url=http://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/c614b4aafd3f41f2b9a86ff641dc064f/inordnande-av-statens-centrum-for-arkitektur-och-design-i-moderna-museet--en-kraftsamling-for-konsten-arkitekturen-och-formen-ku201501181ki|website=www.regeringen.se|publisher=[[Government of Sweden]]|pages=6–17|language=Swedish|accessdate=3 June 2015}}</ref>
*Lena Rahoult, 2009 – July 2014<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fristorp|first1=Mimmi|title=Lena Rahoult ny chef för Arkitekturmuseet|url=http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/lena-rahoult-ny-chef-for-arkitekturmuseet/|newspaper=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|date=19 December 2008|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>
*Bitte Nygren, 1999–2008<ref>{{cite web|last1=Andersson|first1=Patrik|title=Bitte Nygren|url=https://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.926015-bitte-nygren-prefekt-pa-nya-hdk|website=www.gp.se|publisher=[[Göteborgs-Posten]]|date=25 April 2012|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>
*Jöran Lindvall, 1985–99
*Bengt O.H. Johansson, 1966–77

== Gallery ==

=== Buildings ===
<gallery widths="160px" heights="120px" perrow="4">
File:Exercishallen September 2013..jpg|Exhibits building
File:Arkitekturmuseet 2009a.jpg|Exhibits building
File:Arkitekturmuseet 2009b.jpg|Administration building
File:Arkitekturmuseet 2009c.jpg|Administration building
</gallery>

=== Exhibitions ===
<gallery widths="160" heights="120" perrow="4">
File:Arkitekturmuseet utställning 2014c.jpg|Permanent exhibits hall
File:J P G på ArtDes 2013 8.jpg|alt=Temporary exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk", 2013|Temporary exhibition “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk”, 2013
File:Girjegumpi – The Sámi Architecture Library by Joar Nango and collaborators at the Nordic Countries Pavilion (18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia) 5.jpg|''Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library'' by Joar Nango and collaborators at the Nordic Countries Pavilion (18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia) (2023)
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Design museum#List of design museums|List of design museums]]
*[[List of museums in Stockholm]]

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
*{{cite book
|editor-last1=Zimm
|editor-first1=Malin
|title=Om femtio år med Arkitekturmuseet
|trans-title=About fifty years with the Museum of Architecture
|series=Arkitekturmuseets årsbok, 99-0226497-2 ; 2010–2012
|date=2012
|publisher=Arkitekturmuseet
|location=Stockholm
|isbn=9789185460861
|language=Swedish
|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/13584989
}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Arkitektur- och designcentrum|Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design}}
*[http://digitaltmuseum.se/info/owners/S-ARK ArkDes' collections at the Digital Museum]
*[http://www.government.se/government-agencies/swedish-centre-for-architecture-and-design/ ArkDes at the Government of Sweden]

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