Millesgården celebrates its 100th birthday! The artist's home, which is the foundation of the museum that is Millesgården today, was constructed in 1908. We want to celebrate this special occasion with Lidingö's local inhabitants, people from Greater Stockholm, and national and international tourists, namely, with everyone who visits Millesgården.
The celebration will be seen, heard and felt in every part of the museum area, from the artist's home to the park, the garden and the art gallery.
Art Gallery
19 January -24 March: The anniversary year will open with the exhibition Tänd mörkret, a collection of Swedish art from 1975 to 1985. In connection with the exhibition's opening, the Lower Terrace and several of Carl Milles' sculptures, including Guds hand [Hand of God], will be lit up.
5 April - 27 August: Ulf Rollof, one of Sweden's most well-known contemporary artists, will exhibit, among other works, a huge sculpture of a giant octopus in the exhibition UNDER, The sculpture or installation builds on interaction with the public.
6 September-2 November: The work of the American painter Carroll Dunham, born in 1949 and living in New York, will be displayed in Sweden for the first time. This major exhibition will showcase Dunham's colorful, imaginative art.
8 November -25 January 2009: The year's last exhibition in the Art Gallery will be a survey of Modernism, with works that are reflected against the backdrop of Millesgården and its collections of Carl Milles' works.
In the Artist's Home
Slides and films of Carl Milles' life and work will be screened throughout the year in The Large Studio.
8 March -24 August: Images from Millesgården - 100 years of development. The exhibition shows photos, films, plans, drawings and sketches overlooking 100 years of development.
20 September: The Women of Millesgården. The works of Olga Milles, Carl Milles wife, and Ruth Milles, Carl Milles sister, will be exhibited in The Artist´s Home.
Milles in Stockholm is a number of lectures (Swedish)
At the link Milles i Stockholm, which is already on the Millesgården website, visitors can learn about the Carl Milles sculptures that are located in Stockholm. In the spring of 2008, we will offer three lectures with one of ours art experts, Fredrik Bergström.
April 12, 2-3 pm
April 27, 2-3 pm
May 11, 2-3 pm
In the park
Some areas of the park will be illuminated
May 17: Fountain Festival. This festival will celebrate the season during which we replenish the water in our fountains. The day will be filled with games, soap bubbles and fountain bath for those who dare! Free admission all day.
Satellite activities
My Millesgården
We intend to invite Lidingö personalities, such as municipal politicians, artists, business people, teachers, members of the clergy and others, to act as guides at Millesgården. The guides will design their own tours. They may be well-versed on or know very little about the works at Millesgården. We will encourage them to give free rein to their imaginations they may wax rhapsodic, free-associate or refer to other things. In fact, if they want to sing their way through the tour, they can do that too.
We would like our first guest guide to be Paul Lindquist, chair of the municipal executive board.
Millesgården all over Lidingö
A number of pre-school and elementary school classes will be invited to take part in the fountain project. Those who visit Millesgården for inspiration will see all sorts of fountains, with running, gushing, spraying and rippling water. Once back in their classrooms, the students will use simple tools to build fountains on their playgrounds. A hole is covered with plastic and filled with water. A pump with a nozzle sprays out water.
The children create environments around the fountains. They can use their imaginations to build, cast, and cut out figures for their fountain.
Concerts featuring music from Carl Milles record collection
Pianist David Wärn has already selected some pieces and will be responsible for this project.
Mini-guides at Millesgården
We want to invite school-aged children to participate in mini-guide training at Millesgården. They will receive a diploma and two free tickets so that they can return and act as guides for their parents.
