Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, som ursprungligen var hem åt prins Eugen (1865-1947), är idag ett av Sveriges mest besökta konstmuseer. Museet erbjuder variationsrik och omfattande utställnings- och programverksamhet. Året runt visas ett urval av prins Eugens egen konst, verk ur samlingarna samt tillfälliga utställningar.
Museet består av huvudbyggnaden, ”Slottet”, som uppfördes 1903-1905 som bostad åt prins Eugen, samt galleribyggnaden som tillkom 1913. Arkitekten Ferdinand Boberg ritade båda byggnaderna, dock i nära samarbete med prins Eugen. Prinsen, som var son till kung Oscar II och drottning Sophia, var en av sin tids främsta landskapsmålare. Han var också en betydande konstsamlare och en central gestalt i svenskt kulturliv.
AboutBodyPrince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde, originally the home of Prince Eugen (1865-1947), is now among the most-visited art museums in Sweden. The complex consists of a castle-like main building – the Mansion – finished in 1905 and designed by the Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg, and a Gallery Building, added in 1913. The estate also includes the original manor-house building, known as the Old House and an old linseed oil mill, both dating back to the 1780s.
Prince Eugen was one of his generation’s foremost landscape painters and many of his best-known works, including Molnet (the Cloud) and Det gamla slottet (The Old Castle), are part of the collections at Waldemarsudde. He was also an art collector and his collection of Swedish turn-of-the-19th-century art is one of the foremost in the country. In the Mansion the Prince’s Private Apartments remain mostly unchanged, while the two upper floors – with the Prince’s Studio at the top – are used for temporary exhibitions or for exhibiting works by the Prince or from his collections. The Gallery Building is mainly used for temporary exhibitions.
Slottet. Foto: Kjell Renblad