Malmö Art Museum is one of the leading art museums in Scandinavia. The museum was founded in 1841 as part of the City Museum of Malmö. Later the museum was divided into two parts: the Museum of Art and the Museum of Malmö. The building of the Art Museum from 1937 is located in the fortress of Malmö, which is one of the oldest Renaissance castles in Scandinavia.

Malmö Art Museum is famous primarily for its large collection of Scandinavian artists of the 20th century. It also provides a large collection of handicrafts, mainly from the southern provinces of Sweden and Swedish religious painting.

The core of the museum's collection are 700 works of contemporary art of the Nordic countries, which have been collected by Herman Gotthardtsom in the period from 1914 to 1943 and donated to the museum. Also, special attention is paid to the extensive collection of Carl Fredrik Hill, which contains more than 2,600 drawings and 25 paintings. Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911) is considered one of the most outstanding landscape painters of Sweden largely thanks to his works, created from 1883 to 1911, which became known worldwide.

Malmö Art Museum organizes various temporary exhibitions, mainly dedicated to the art of the Nordic countries. The constant exposition is organized like a walk through time and space as a retrospective reflecting developments in art and the Nordic countries and around the world. The museum aims to give visitors a chance to see, explore, comment, criticize history and modern life. The educational activities of the museum include guided tours, school programs and workshops.