Olafur Eliasson - Verklighetsmaskiner, 3.10 2015 - 17.1 2016
ArkDes is located on Skeppsholmen island in the centre of Stockholm. You can travel there by public transport, by bicycle or on foot. Welcome!
Exercisplan 4
Skeppsholmen
Stockholm
Bus no. 65 from in front of Stockholm Central Station directly to Skeppsholmen. The bus stop is called Moderna museet/Arkitekturmuseet.
The closest underground station is Kungsträdgården. From there, it is only a ten minutes walk out to Skeppsholmen.
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.
Timetable for underground, bus
and boat →
ArkDes is around a 10-minute walk from Kungsträdgården and around 20 minutes from T-Centralen (the main underground station) or Gamla Stan.
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.
Telephone: +46-8-520 235 00
info@arkdes.se
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10.00–20.00
Wednesday: 10.00–18.00
Thursday: 10.00–18.00
Friday: 10.00–20.00
Saturday: 11.00–18.00
Sunday: 11.00–18.00
Monday: closed
Tuesday – Thursday: 10.00–17.00
Friday: 10.00–16.00
Saturday: closed
Sunday: 12.00–16.00
Thursdays, every other week at 12-16 (uneven weeks).
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11.00–19.30
Wednesday: 11.00–17.30
Thursday: 11.00–17.30
Friday: 11.00–19.30
Saturday: 11.00–17.30
Sunday: 11.00–17.30
Free admission.
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
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.
Come cast your own concrete panel and see if you can lift it with our crane. This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 5 years.
Create flying cities in Studio ArkDes! This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 4 years.
Create flying cities in Studio ArkDes! This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 4 years.
Create flying cities in Studio ArkDes! This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 4 years.
Create flying cities in Studio ArkDes! This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 4 years.
Create flying cities in Studio ArkDes! This event includes a guided tour of the exhibition Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World, as well as the possibility to build your own creations.
Tickets to Family Sundays are free but limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up tickets at the information desk on the same day. No pre-registration. First come, first served. From 4 years.
Learn more about architecture and design with our current exhibitions. Book a guided tour with one of the curators at ArkDes.
Foto: Åke E:son Lindman
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 for visits in Ralph Erskine’s Lådan
Book a guided tour
ArkDes is all housed on one floor and it is easy to move around our premises.
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.
