Museum of Contemporary Art, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, was inaugurated in 1958. Its first director was Pontus Hulten. In 2009, the Museum of Modern Art opened a new branch in the south of Sweden, in the city of Malmo.

In the museum you can see works of art as Swedish and foreign masters such as Picasso and Salvador Dali. The museum's collection also includes works by key artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as works by contemporary artists. In total, the museum's collection includes about 5,000 paintings, sculptures and installations, around 25,000 works executed watercolors, drawings and prints, nearly 100,000 photographs, film and video art, as well as the apartment of artist Einar Hilandera in Stockholm.

In 1993, six works by Picasso and two works by Georges Braque, whose aggregate value exceeds the sum of £ 40 million were stolen from the museum robbers who entered the building through the roof, imitating the method shown in the French film "Rififi" ("Rififi" ) in 1955.

In 2005, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art Pontus Hulten bequeathed to the museum's own collection includes nearly 800 works of art, along with its archives and libraries. Several works from this collection are presented in the framework of the permanent exhibition of the museum, and the rest are exhibited in a specially built gallery.

Between 1994 and 1998, the museum's collection has been temporarily transported as building on Skeppsholmen were restoration work under the guidance of the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.

Initially, visit the permanent exhibition of the museum was free, tickets need to buy only some temporary exhibitions, but, in 2007, was introduced by general admission.