ArkDes is located on Skeppsholmen island in the centre of Stockholm. You can travel there by public transport, by bicycle or on foot. Welcome!
How to find us
Adress for visitors
Exercisplan 4
Skeppsholmen
Stockholm
Bus
Bus no. 65 from in front of Stockholm Central Station directly to Skeppsholmen. The bus stop is called Moderna museet/Arkitekturmuseet.
Underground
The closest underground station is Kungsträdgården. From there, it is only a ten minutes walk out to Skeppsholmen.
Boat
The Djurgården ferry departs from Slussen with frequent crossings all year round, but not all crossings stop at Skeppsholmen. Notify the personnel onboard that you want to get off at Skeppsholmen! The crossing takes around five minutes.
ArkDes is around a 10-minute walk from Kungsträdgården and around 20 minutes from T-Centralen (the main underground station) or Gamla Stan.
Car
The car park is outside the waterfront entrance. Parking spaces for the disabled are outside the main entrance and the waterfront entrance. You can also travel by taxi to both entrances.
24 December Christmas Eve: Closed
25 December Christmas Day: Closed
26 December Boxing Day: 10.00–18.00
31 December New Year’s Eve: Closed
Opening hours, public holidays 2020
1 January New Year’s Day: Closed
5 January Eve of Epiphany: 11.00–18.00
6 January Epiphany: Closed
10 april Good Friday: 10.00–20.00
11 april Passover: 11.00–18.00
12 April Easter Sunday: 11.00–18.00
13 April Easter Monday: Closed
30 April (Walpurgis Night): 10.00–18.00
1 May Labour Day: 10.00–20.00
21 May Ascension Thursday: 10.00–18.00
6 June Sweden’s National Day: 11.00–18.0
19 June Midsummer’s Eve: Closed
20 June Midsummer’s Day: 11.00–18.00
24 December Christmas Eve: Closed
25 December Christmas Day: Closed
26 December Boxing Day: 11.00–18.00
31 December New Year’s Eve: Closed
The library and collections
Closed during the summer: from Midsummer’s Eve up to and including the second week in August
Closed during the Christmas holidays: from and including 22 December to and including the first Monday after Epiphany.
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Food and drink
Café Blom
ArkDes Café Blom serves delicious light dishes, baked goods and drinks in an attractive setting. During the summer, the tables outdoors are the perfect oasis in the centre of the city.
Café Blom serves baked goods, hot and cold drinks, salads, grilled sandwiches and other light dishes. The café has a full licence. The café premises can be rented out for parties and other events, for groups between 15 and 60 persons. Café Blom is run by Fiesta Deli & Catering.
You can enjoy a delicious lunch or a cup of coffee with home-baked goods at the Restaurant in Moderna museum, with one of the most beautiful views in Stockholm.
The restaurant serves a buffet lunch on weekdays from 11.00 to 14.00. At the weekends, the popular brunch buffet is served from 11.00 to 17.15. At other times, you can choose between fresh salads, soups, filling sandwiches and delicious home-made cakes. The restaurant is fully licensed.
The restaurant opens one hour after the museum opens and closes one hour before the museum closes. Lunch menu
Packed lunch seating
If you have brought your own packed lunch, there is a seating area on level 1 (at the Moderna Museum) for families and school classes to eat their own lunch.
Families
Welcome to Studio ArkDes! Dig around among our books for children and young people on architecture and design in our attractive studio. Or try to build an arch using knot timber blocks. Each weekend, we organise activities with different themes. More information is provided in the calendar.
Book guided tours
Learn more about architecture and design with our current exhibitions. Book a guided tour with one of the curators at ArkDes.
Architecture in Sweden
Why do the buildings around us look like they do? Architecture is a reflection of community spirit, ideologies, power and visions of the future. The permanent exhibition entitled Architecture in Sweden provides an illustration of construction in Sweden over the past millennium. You can book a guided tour of the exhibition all year round.
Guided tours of the collections and library
It is possible to book a guided tour of ArkDes’ library and collections. Feel free to specify your interests and specific topics.
All guided tours last 60 minutes and cost SEK 2,000. A guided tour after 17.00 costs SEK 2,500.
Ralph Erskines Box on Lovön
Ralph and Ruth Erskine’s first home in Sweden is a 20-square-metre house full of ingenious designs. It is possible to book a guided tour of the house, known as Lådan (or box). A tour of Lådan cost SEK
3 500 daytime and SEK 5 000 evenings and weekend.
Special guided tours
Does the information above not answer your questions? We can offer special guided tours for groups who require a specific content. Contact us to discuss different possibilities. We can also organise catering in connection with your guided tour, and you can rent rooms for a meeting and conferences. Renting rooms Contact
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Foto: Åke E:son Lindman
Ralph Erskine’s Lådan
Ralph and Ruth Erskine’s first home in Sweden is a 20-square-metre house full of ingenious designs. The house, known as Lådan was moved to Lovön island in 1989 and is now open to the public.
After moving to Sweden, Ralph Erskine built his family home during the cold winter of 1941-42 in Lissma, south of Stockholm. The 20-square-metre Box, as the house became known, is an example of ingenious design in small spaces, with a focus on function and flexibility.
This is an early example of compact living: a fold-down table transforms into a corner office space, a fold-down bed transforms the living area into a bedroom, and at the centre of it all is the fireplace, providing both warmth and a space to sit together.
The house is considered to be of major interest in terms of construction history, and illustrates architectonic development in Sweden. The building is now located on the island of Lovön, on ground utilised by the National Defence Radio Establishment, and is a copy erected by building contractor Reinhold Gustafsson on the initiative of architectural author Olle Bengtzon.
ArkDes entered into an agreement with the National Defence Radio Establishment in 1993, and has been assigned the task of making Lådan available to the general public. ArkDes organises guided tours, but interested persons who work in the field, such as students, researchers or other professionals, can borrow a key and visit individually.
Before visiting individually, you have to sign a policy document stipulating certain regulations.
ArkDes is all housed on one floor and it is easy to move around our premises.
Parking spaces for the disabled are available outside the main entrance and the waterfront entrance. ArkDes is all on one level.
All the doors open automatically. One exception is the exit door from Café Blom and the door to the tables outdoors. The staff at the museum are more than happy to help you.
There is a ramp to the outdoor tables at Café Blom.
The museum has no obstructive level tresholds.
There is a lift between the entrance from Exercisplan and the waterfront entrance (at the rear of the building). There are disabled toilets with changing table in the auditorium lobby and in Café Blom. The door width is 90 cm. There are also disabled toilets at both entrances.
Wheelchairs are available at both entrances.
Pushchairs for children are available at both entrances.
Folding chairs are available in the exhibition halls.
Hearing loops are available in the Auditorium, Biografen and Aula ArkDes. The reception hearing loop is available from the information desks on levels 2 and 4. Set the hearing device to the “T” loop.
Please feel free to contact us if you feel something is missing or if you have improvements to suggest. We are included in the Frittframapp app, with a simple display of accessibility for the disabled.