GOTHENBURG ART MUSEUM: all year
 

Unlike most major national art museums, the Gothenburg Museum of Art - described as the leading museum of Nordic art - is not indebted to former royal or aristocratic art collections for its origins. It is the people of Gothenburg themselves who have created this museum, by their generosity - creative, or financial! Although the main emphasis in the collections has always been on Swedish art, the art of the Nordic countries as a whole has also played an important part, and the museum covers numerous eras and movements, including the French impressionists and Surrealism. The earliest works on show date back to the 15th century, and one of the oldest is Ludovico Brea's 'Throning Madonna'. Modern art, however, is not underrepresented, and some of the most visited pieces are Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' and Allen Jones's 'Bare Me'. The museum's collection of graphic arts encompasses some 50 000 graphic works and 8000 drawings, and there is a fine collection of British post-war art, including works by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon. In the Sculpture Hall - itself a fine example of 1920s classicism - the emphasis is mainly on Nordic sculpture from 1920 onwards.

• Monday closed
• Tuesday 11am - 6pm
• Wednesday 11am - 9pm
• Thursday 11am - 6pm
• Friday 11am - 5pm
• Saturday 11am - 5pm
• Sunday 11am - 5pm

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