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Malmö Konstmuseum has one of the largest art collections in Sweden, comprised of over 40,000 artworks and objects, mainly from the 16th century through today. The museum’s collection mostly consists of paintings, sculptures, installations, film, drawings, and graphics, as well as handicrafts and industrial design. During the last 35 years, the museum has actively been collecting contemporary Nordic art, but there has been a clear Nordic focus in the collecting of the past, as well. The art collection of Herman Gotthardt makes up one of the main pillars of the museum’s collections. Up until 1944, Gotthardt donated 768 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and graphics by Nordic modernist artists to the museum. The museum also has a large and unique collection of Russian art from the turn of the 20th century. It is partially made up of the Russian works shown at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1914, that remained here following the outbreak of the First World War. Since 2015, Malmö Konstmuseum is also managing the donation of Karin and Jules Schyl, which was received by the City of Malmö in 1983. The donation was then managed by Malmö Konsthall, but the decision to transfer it to Malmö Konstmuseum was made with the museum’s mission of taking care of and preserving knowledge and collections in mind.