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Skeppsholmen
Stockholm
+46 8-520 235 00
info@arkdes.se
Opening hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10–20
Wednesday: 10–18
Thursday: 10–18
Friday: 10–20
Saturday: 11–18
Sunday: 11–18
Admission prices
Architecture in Sweden: Free admission
The Future Starts Here: 150 SEK
Reduced: (pensioners and students, valid ID required): SEK 120
Up to age 19 and members of ArkDes friends: Free admission.
Groups with at least 15 people: 120 SEK/person
Yarny, Medusa och en elefant – The Craft of Swedish Game Design:
Free admission
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Sunday
28 July
Family Sunday: The Super Powers of the Future
12:00
What gadgets and super powers will we need to get by in the future? We find inspiration in the exhibition The Future Starts Here. Decide your own power and design a power object in the ArkDes studio.
Tickets are available at the information desk the same day. Limited availability. No pre-booking. Children have free admission and can bring one adult for free to the Family Sunday. Be sure to come in time so you don’t miss the presentation! From age of 4.
Sunday
28 July
Guided tour: The Future Starts Here
14:00 In English
The world of tomorrow is shaped by the designs and technologies emerging today.
This exhibition brings together 80 objects that point towards where society might be headed.
Guided by ethical and speculative questions, The Future Starts Here invites the visitor to consider what impact these objects might have on your bodies, your home, your work and your planet – ultimately your life and death. How could they affect the way you live, learn and even love?
Included in the exhibition ticket.
Tuesday
30 July
Guided tour: The Future Starts Here
17:00
The world of tomorrow is shaped by the designs and technologies emerging today.
This exhibition brings together 80 objects that point towards where society might be headed.
Guided by ethical and speculative questions, The Future Starts Here invites the visitor to consider what impact these objects might have on your bodies, your home, your work and your planet – ultimately your life and death. How could they affect the way you live, learn and even love?
Included in the exhibition ticket.
Sunday
4 August
Family Sunday: The Super Powers of the Future
12:00
What gadgets and super powers will we need to get by in the future? We find inspiration in the exhibition The Future Starts Here. Decide your own power and design a power object in the ArkDes studio.
Tickets are available at the information desk the same day. Limited availability. No pre-booking. Children have free admission and can bring one adult for free to the Family Sunday. Be sure to come in time so you don’t miss the presentation! From age of 4.
Sunday
4 August
Guided tour: The Future Starts Here
14:00 In English
The world of tomorrow is shaped by the designs and technologies emerging today.
This exhibition brings together 80 objects that point towards where society might be headed.
Guided by ethical and speculative questions, The Future Starts Here invites the visitor to consider what impact these objects might have on your bodies, your home, your work and your planet – ultimately your life and death. How could they affect the way you live, learn and even love?
Included in the exhibition ticket.
Sunday
11 August
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
18 August
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Tuesday
20 August
Finissage! Yarny, Medusa och en elefant: The Craft of Swedish Game Design
18:00
Videogames are everywhere. We play them on desktop screens and on devices that we hold in our hands. At home, on the bus, alone and together. But what do you actually know about the creative visual worlds behind the screens? Yarny, Medusa och en elefant reveals the visual craft behind videogame design in Sweden. Join the finissage and learn more about the fascinating design and artistry of a design field behind the worlds, puzzles and characters that many know and love. Yarny, Medusa och en elefant →
Programme: Behind the Screens
18.00-18.30
Lecture: Effie Karabuda, Game Editor, Aftonbladet on the Craft of Swedish Game Design
Introduction by Kieran Long (Director, ArkDes) and Caroline Agné (verksamhetschef, Illustratörcentrum)
In Swedish.
18.30-19.15
Panel discussion with:
Linnéa Östedt Harrison, Neat Corporation
Emma Richey, Might and Delight
Martin Sahlin, Coldwood Interactive
Zeke Virant, Avalanche Studios
Moderated by James Taylor-Foster (Curator, Contemporary Architecture and Design, ArkDes) with Sofia Östlund (Co-Curator of the exhibition).
In English.
In Aula ArkDes.
The exhibition is open until 20.00 with free entry. Bar and DJ Julia Wallin in Café Blom from 19.00 until 22.00!
Sunday
25 August
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
1 September
Open House: Ralph Erskine’s Lådan
11:00 Lådan, Rörbyvägen 33, Drottningholm
Join us at an open house event at Ralph Erskine’s house Lådan, on Lovön. During the hours 11–16.
Lådan was the first home of Ralph and Ruth Erskine in Sweden; a 20 squaremeter house full of smart solutions. Since 1989, the house Lådan has been situated on Lovön and is open for visitors.
Free admission.
Finding Lådan: Bus 323 from Brommaplan to Rörby gård. Follow signs to Lådan from there.
Sunday
1 September
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
8 September
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
15 September
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
22 September
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
29 September
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
6 October
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
Sunday
13 October
Family Sunday: Build high!
12:00
Build high towers in our studio! In a family presentation in Architecture in Sweden, you pick up building tips and an insight into how people have tried to build high, stable buildings down the ages.
People have long been striving to be able to build as high as possible. Children and adults are welcome to work together to build high using thin paper tubes and hot-melt adhesive in our studio. Feel free to put whatever you build to the ultimate strength test: by taking it home with you.
Free tickets are available from the information desk when the museum opens. Be in time so you don’t miss the presentation! Limited availability. From age of 4.
News
Design exchange between Gothenburg and Helsinki
As part of the project Dockland Design Exchange, ArkDes has joined with the Museum of Finnish Architecture, MFA, and the independent organisation, the Association of Finnish Architects’ Offices, ATL, to invite six architecture firms from Gothenburg and Helsinki to share their experiences of architecture in old harbour areas.
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New donation to the ArkDes collections
ArkDes has received a new donation, a competition proposal for a monument to The Unknown Political Prisoner in London. The proposal was made by Ralph Erskine together with the sculptor Egon Møller-Nielsen in the early 1950s.
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Public Luxury now showing in Paris
A smaller version of ArkDes’s success exhibition Public Luxury is showing at the Swedish Institute in Paris until 9 June. The exhibition features works that illuminate the paradoxes, conflicts and opportunities surrounding public space – and tell something about how we live in cities today.
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