The Museum of Spirits () is situated on the island of

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, Sweden. The museum is about Sweden's wine and spirit history and the manufacture of alcohol. The fixed exhibitions, showed older production and bottling equipment for wine and spirits, labels from older wine and spirits in Sweden, an exhibition about Swedish drinking habits and beverage visors, objects from ancient wine history, and a complete interior design from a wine trade from the time before Systembolaget monopoly. The museum has permanent and temporary exhibitions related to the

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of Sweden. The museum also functions as an art gallery, as it houses and displays the Absolut Art Collection. The museum houses three exhibition venues, including the permanent, interactive exhibition Sweden: Spirits of a Nation (''Spritlandet Sverige'').

History

The Museum of Spirits was opened as the Wine & Spirit Historical Museum in the Grönstedtska palace, in

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, Stockholm, in 1967, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the state-owned company AB Vin & Sprit. In the spirit museum, among other things, it is shown by the state of the Absolut Art Collection, a collection of 850 artwork from 1986 onwards for

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and 550 other famous artists. This was excluded from the state's sales of Wine & Sprit AB to

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in 2008 after a unanimous parliamentary decision, caused by a motion of

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. The Selection of the art collection is shown in an annual thematic exhibition that is from spring and over the summer. Every autumn an Absolut-artist in to make a solar setting. In May 2012, the spirits museum moved to 2,000 square meters of large premises in the Galärskjulen at Djurgården in Stockholm. In 2014, Petter Nisson, who had previously operated La Gazzetta (described by the ''

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'' as "one of the most celebrated creative neo-bistros in Paris"), opened a restaurant at the museum.

List of temporary exhibitions

* 2017, Rocky at the Museum of Spirits, comic artist

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constructed four spaces representing rooms and places frequently used in his self-biographical comic strip

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. * 2017 — 2018, Under the Surface — Bertil Vallien, on the work of innovative glassmaker Bertil Vallien. * 2017 — 2018, Champagne!

Absolut Art Collection

The Absolut Art Collection consists of work created between 1985 and 2004. It contains nearly 900 artworks - paintings, graphic art, photography, furniture, fashion, and handicrafts - by 600 artists and designers, all in some way portraying the Absolut Vodka bottle. The first piece commissioned was Andy Warhol's ''Absolut Warhol'', in 1986. Other commissions went to, for example,

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, Steven Salzman,

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, Ola Billgren, Dan Wolgers and

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References

External links

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Official website
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History

List of temporary exhibitions

Absolut Art Collection

See also

References

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