About the Museum

Uppsala Art Museum is a municipal museum of art situated in Uppsala Castle. The Museum exhibits works of art from its own collections, arranges temporary exhibitions of Swedish and international contemporary art and also houses a permanent exhibition of the University’s collection of works of art used for Fine Art studies.

The collections of the Uppsala Art Museum are characterised by multiplicity and great variation. The bulk of the collection consists of prints ranging from the 16th century to the printing experiments of the present day. Work by Swedish artists from the 1960’s and 1970’s, regional painting and a large collection of ceramic pieces from the Upsala-Ekeby Factory are also represented in the Museum. In recent years the art collections have been enlarged by purchases of major important and contemporary works of art by now-living active artists. The Museum collections are shown on a regular basis in longer or shorter exhibitions.

Pieter Breughel the Younger, Peasant Wedding in a Barn. Oil on panel. 1602 (or 1608). UU 635.


On show within the premises of the Art Museum is also the Uppsala University Fine Art Collection, mostly used for university studies. It contains above all older works of art from the Middle Ages and up to the middle of the 19th century. The Collection is divided into portraits, landscape paintings, still life and genre pictures mainly from Holland and France. Read more about The Study Collection >>