RESEARCH
Case
In the Art Academy's statutes, it is stated that the Academy shall
"through international contacts, promote research and development in the visual arts and architecture'.
History
Since the 1700th century, the Academy of Arts has promoted both national and international contacts through travel and residence grants.
Today
The purpose of the Academy of Arts' research is to maintain and develop competence and new knowledge about our collections, primarily within art scientific and historical research.
Under 2024/2025 work is underway to digitize the Art Academy's collections. By creating an easily accessible infrastructure, the Academy of Arts' rich source material is made available and conditions are created for the development of research.
Search our collections
> Search in student lists 1778–1795. A list of students at the Royal Academy’s foundation studies, Principskolan, established in 1778
> List of members
> Libris
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT
Remains in museum collections
The Art Academy is one of many cultural institutions in Sweden that has human remains in its collections. These are skeletal parts that were previously used in the academy's anatomical teaching. The state of knowledge about the remains in the collection is currently limited and needs to be improved. The Academy of Fine Arts therefore welcomes the attention being paid to the issue and is now conducting internal work to investigate the future of the remains.
Today, research and important conversations about the ethics of how remains of this kind should be handled are ongoing. Both within the museum world and contemporary art, the question has come up. The artist > Simon Ferners work is an example that shows how important it is to highlight this history and understand how it still affects us today.
Links to previous research: