Until September
BORDERLAND
A land without borders, where tales and scenes that are common to the Bible, the Torah and the Koran relate their own unique message, beyond words and theology. Assembled by deaconess Lena Forsberg.
The Röhsska Museum displays items from its collections that have links to faith and religious rituals, including prayer mats, book bindings and crucifixes.
Borderland is a collaborative effort between the Church of Sweden, the Muslim and Jewish communities in Gothenburg, and the Sensus study association.

21 January – 16 August
CITRUS SQUEEZERS
The quest for the ultimate design focuses on one of the most commonplace items in the kitchen. Dedicating a single exhibition to an impressive collection of 700 citrus squeezers in a plethora of materials and forms provides a unique opportunity for detailed study of the creative search that inspires design. The citrus squeezers give a deep insight into the interplay between form and function, and leave you asking whether a design product can ever achieve perfection.

31 March – 27 September
MAUD FREDIN FREDHOLM
Fashion designer Maud Fredin Fredholm is a Swedish fashion icon from the early glory days of haute couture who exerted a strong influence on the Swedish fashion scene. The Röhsska Museum is exhibiting garments created by Maud Fredin Fredholm (born 1919), who has played an active role in the art and fashion world since the 1930s until the present day. The exhibition reflects her extensive output of ingenious patterned designs in a spectacular range of colours. She is a textile artist and designer with a highly individual use of design, pattern, and colour, and her work is very recognisable, especially if you recall the fashions of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

19 May - 30 August
CONTEMPORARY NORDIC QUILTING
In its Contemporary Nordic Quilting exhibition, Röhsska Museum presents 25 quilters from around the Nordic countries. The exhibition turns attention on a fascinating medium for arts & crafts, spanning embroidery, patchwork and appliqué, and aims to inspire a younger generation of museum visitors and designers. Newly created works will be exhibited alongside quilted objects from the Röhsska Museum collection. The exhibition opening is timed to coincide with the Nordic Quilt Triennial, which will take place in Gothenburg on 21–24 May and attracts a large number of visitors from the Nordic countries.

30 May – 16 August
MASTERS DEGREE EXHIBITION 2009
During the summer, Röhsska will be showing the Masters graduation projects from the School of Design and Crafts and HDK Steneby at the University of Gothenburg

2 June – 31 January 2010
Finland’s queen of fashion – VUOKKO
The Röhsska Museum pays tribute to Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi, one of the last great Nordic modernists. Vuokko is the fashion queen of modernism, and over the course of 2009 her work will be celebrated with exhibits reflecting the period from her time with Marimekko, right up to the forthcoming collection for 2010. Her dresses have been worn by celebrities who range from Jaqueline Kennedy, wife of the US president in the 1960s, to the current president of Finland, Tarja Halonen.

Permanent exhibitions

THE RÖHSSKA MUSEUM DESIGN HISTORY -  
1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY
In this permanent exhibition, we offer the visitor a dizzying journey from the time when the industrial society began to form in the 19:th century to the present day information society, seen from the perspective of design.
The exhibition spans five rooms and has exciting scenography, which presents various aspects of design history. Taking the pick of the museum’s collections of furniture, industrial design, posters, textiles, ceramics, glass and lots more, our thirty one different environments chronicle the development of the art of design in the last 150 years.

JAPANESE DESIGN
Arts and crafts from the museum’s own collections. The foundation for the museum’s collections of Japanese art objects was laid many years ago through several large acquisitions of japonaiserie. Among other things, a donation by a group of Gothenburg merchants in 1905 enabled the collection of  800 Japanese craft objects assembled by the Orientalist Fredrik Martin to find its way to the museum. When the Röhsska Museum opened its doors to the public in 1916, the permanent Japanese exhibition was an important component. Now there is a Japanese gallery, where a representative selection of objects from the museum’s rich collection are on display.
The exhibition was produced in cooperation with architect and stage designer Henrik Widenheim.

Bönenisch ”Mihrab”.
At display in the exhibition "Borderland".  Photo: ML


Citrus squeezer, 
Germany, 1920th.


Maud Fredin Fredholm.


From the Contemporary
Nordic Quilting exhibition.
Photo: Ole Akhøj


HDK.
Cecilia Pettersson
Photo: Karin Strömberg


"Maahinen". 
Design Vuokko 1972.
Photo: Max Petrelius



The Röhsska Museum 
design history - 
1851 to the present day 
Photo: ML




Japanese design. Detai
 of Kimono, Furisode.
Matakyo, 1960th.
Photo: ML

Entrance
Five Museums, 40 SEK!
An annual season ticket that is valid for Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg City Museum, the Maritime Museum and Aquarium, the RöhsskaMuseum and the Natural History Museum costs 20 Swedish kronor.
Buy a season ticket on your first visit and get the rest of the year free! Free admission to under 25s.

Visiting address:
Vasagatan 37-39
400 15 Göteborg
Sweden

Travel to the museum by tram nos. 3, 4, 5, 7 and 10. Bus 18, 42, 58, 753, 760 and 764 to Valand tram/bus stop.