The turbine hall
One column-free space, reshaped for every show.
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The Malmö branch of Moderna Museet, the southern outpost of Stockholm's national museum of modern art, opened in 2009. The building is the first thing you see: an electricity works of 1901 with a brick front, onto which a **perforated orange-red box** has been added, standing above it and holding the new entrance. The contrast is deliberate and has become the district's mark. Inside is a single large column-free hall — it was the turbine room — rearranged for each exhibition. The programme is mainly temporary shows drawn from the national Moderna Museet collection, which holds Picasso, Matisse, Dalí and Warhol along with a strong holding of twentieth-century feminist art. **Entry is free** — Moderna Museet's policy at both its sites — which makes a visit easy even if the current show is not to your taste. The Slagthuset district around the museum holds restaurants and cafés in old industrial buildings.
One column-free space, reshaped for every show.
A deliberate contrast that became the district's mark.
Gasverksgatan 22, Malmö
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