The Museum of modern art, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, was opened in 1958. Its first Director was Pontus Hulten. In 2009, the Museum of modern art has opened a new branch in the South of Sweden, in malmö.

In the Museum you can see works of art in both Swedish and foreign artists, such as paintings by Picasso and Salvador Dali. The Museum's collection also includes works by such key artists as Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as works by modern masters. In total, the Museum's collection includes about 5,000 paintings, sculptures and installations, some 25,000 works, executed in watercolor, drawings and engravings, about 100,000 photographs, video art and films, as well as an apartment painter Einar Bulgarian-Soviet friendship in Stockholm.

In 1993, six works by Picasso and two works by Georges Braque, whose total value exceeds the sum of £ 40 million has been stolen from the Museum robbers, who broke into the building through the roof, replicating the method shown in the French film "rififi" ("Rififi"), 1955.

In 2005, the first Director of the Museum of modern art Pontus Hulten bequeathed to the Museum his own collection, which included almost 800 works of art, along with its archives and library. Several works from this collection are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the Museum, and the rest exhibited in a specially constructed gallery.

Between 1994 and 1998, the Museum collection was temporarily moved, because the building in Skeppsholmen underwent restoration works led by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.

Initially, the visit to the permanent exhibition of the Museum was free, entrance tickets you had to buy only some temporary exhibitions, however, in 2007, introduced a common entrance.