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Welcome to ArkDes on September 27th
Café Blom is open as usual

ArkDes is currently closed for refurbishment.

Guided tours for SFI

SFI (Swedish for immigrants) can book a tour of the exhibitions ArkDes Collection or Designing Motherhood where we communicate in simplified and clearer Swedish. Guided tours for SFI is free of charge.

Learn about ArkDes’s group tours for SFI:

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births

Did you know that the breast pump is a Swedish invention and that menstrual cups existed as far back as the 1930s? Designing Motherhood is an exhibition about how design has influenced human reproduction to enable, facilitate, or prevent our arrival into the world. Book a tour among the 300 items of Designing Motherhood and learn more about Swedish and global challenges, societal norms, and taboos surrounding reproductive health.

The guided tour is free of charge, takes approximately one hour, and is given in the temporary exhibition Designing Motherhood (01.10.2024–31.08.2025). Max 30 attendees per session.

ArkDes reserves the right to charge a no-show fee of 1000 SEK.

  • Photo: Reijo Rüster / Försäkringskassan. 1975. Barnledig pappa!

ArkDes Collection: The Ideas that Shaped Modern Sweden

ArkDes’s collection comprises over four million objects created by architects and designers such as Gunnar Asplund, Léonie Geisendorf, and Sigurd Lewerentz. For the first time, the audience will have the opportunity to delve into stories and original works from the museum’s vast archive.

During the tour, we delve into 150 years of Swedish architecture and design history, from the initial ideas on the drawing board to the shaping of our cities by architecture and design.

The guided tour is free of charge, takes approximately one hour, and is given in the exhibition ArkDes Collection. Max 30 attendees per session.

ArkDes reserves the right to charge a no-show fee of 1000 SEK.

  • Fredrik Eens Minne, Home for Single Mothers. Ingeborg Wærn Bugge, Kerstin Göransson Ljungman. Photographer: Källgrens ateljé. ArkDes collection.

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