Sven-Harry's Art Museum ( sv, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum) is an art museum in Stockholm, Sweden, founded by builder Sven-Harry Karlsson. It is housed in a multi-purpose building alongside an art gallery, museum shop, apartments, and businesses.

History

The award-winning Swedish builder (b. 1931) has been an art collector since the mid-1960s, forming a collection including work by

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, Ernst Josephson,

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, Edvard Munch,

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, and others. He constructed a building to house his collection in Vasaparken in Stockholm's inner city. Designed by

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and Anna Höglund of Wingårdh Architects, the 5-story building is clad in a gold-tinted copper-aluminium-zinc alloy designed not to darken when exposed to oxygen. It opened in 2011 and is now owned and run by a foundation. Its director since 2018 has been Dragana Kusoffsky Maksimović. In addition to Sven-Harry's Art Museum, the building houses an art gallery, a museum shop, a restaurant and other businesses, and 18 apartments in its . The museum is located at the top of the building and its interior spaces are designed as a replica of Sven-Harry Karlsson's former home in

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, which dated back to the 1770s. The art gallery, which is about , is divided into three major halls split between the ground floor and the fourth floor. It exhibits work by artists such as Karin Mamma Andersson and

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. The remainder of the ground floor is taken up by commercial enterprises.

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