Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet

Templon Gallery Closes New York Outpost, Tone Hansen to Lead Moderna Museet: Morning Links for June 9, 2026

Good morning! Paris-founded Templon Gallery is closing its Chelsea location and hopes to open a smaller space in New York City. Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum sparked criticism for its plans to replace the word “massacre” with the word “incident,” in reference to the Nanjing Massacre. A Dutch court has sentenced three men to nearly four years in prison for the theft of golden Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum. The Headlines T…

Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Sweden’s minister for culture, Parisa Liljestrand, at a June 8 press conference announced Tone Hansen as the next director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Hansen arrives to the institution from Munch, the museum in Oslo devoted to the work of Edvard Munch, where she has served as director since 2022. She previously helmed the Henie Onstad […]

Tone Hansen appointed director of Moderna Museet

Courtesy Munchmuseet, Oslo Tone Hansen has been appointed chief superintendent and director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Malmö, the Swedish Ministry of Culture has announced. She will start her new role in September, taking over from Gitte Ørskou who has held the position for seven years. Hansen has been director of MUNCH in Oslo since 2022. Prior to this, she was director of Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo. ‘My ambition is to shape a new dire…