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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.

Café Bloms opening hours

Restaurant

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.

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.

Would you like to learn more about architecture and design with our current exhibitions? Book a guided tour with one of the teachers at ArkDes.

Public Luxury

Public Luxury explores how architecture and design can help us to reflect on our society and the public life. Examples such as life-saving design, a monument of the indie group Broder Daniel, and cobblestones that obstruct accessibility in the public realm each provoke discussions about the relationshop between public and private, accessibility and inclusivity, and the power of public opinion. From reading history through playing Battlefield I, to dancing on the Dansbana!, the show studies where we dare to move around Stockholm during the night, and why they want to move the snack bar in Oskarshamn!

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.
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• Hammarby Sjöstad – modern architecture and city planning. A tour of innovative architecture and city planning ideals with views of the sea.
• City in change. Stockholm witnessed major changes during the 1950s and 1960s. 40 years later and the city is yet again experiencing change, with the Waterfront, roofing over the railway tracks north of Central station and a new station for commuter trains.
• From palace to the Hötorget skyscrapers. An architectural historical tour of Stockholm’s inner city. We study the city’s façades and their designs throughout the ages. The tour starts at Skeppsholmen bridge and goes through the city.

The walks cost SEK 3,500 during daytime and SEK 5,000 in the evenings and at weekends. The walks last around one and a half hours.

Book a tour

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.

Policy document

Book a guided tour

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.