Museum of Sketches for Public Art

The Museum of Sketches for Public Art is an artwork museum at Lund University in Sweden, devoted to the gathering and show of sketches and drawings for current monumental and public art, including frescos, sculpture and reliefs. The museum carries about 25,000 items, such as sketches and contest entries through leading twentieth-century Swedish artists consisting of Isaac Grunewald, different Nordic artists and foreign artists including Henry Moore, Diego Rivera and Henri Matisse.

The museum turned into based in 1934 by using Ragnar Josephson 1891 to 1966, professor of the History and Theory of Art at Lund University. Josephson, who wanted to collect material illuminating the innovative system of the artist, wrote a book on the topic, Konstverkets fodelse The Birth of the Work of Art", 1940, in addition to many shorter research. The series opened to the general public in 1941 in a building close to the Lund University Library.