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Room IVUntil 14 Feb 2027
Salt and Horizon
Twenty-two young painters on the sea as border and as road.
Open every day · No ticket required
A museum of fine art you can walk through from anywhere
Three permanent rooms for the masters, three rotating rooms for new work, each piece shown with its full museum label.
- Rooms
- 6
- Works on view
- 285
- Exhibitions now
- 3
- Days to Gardens After Rain
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Floor plan · Ground level
Choose a room
Every gallery opens from the rotunda. Pick a room on the plan to see what hangs there.
Room I · Permanent collection
Antiquity and the Classical
Marble, bronze and painted pottery from the Mediterranean and Western Asia, the oldest works in the collection.
- Works
- 48
- Artists
- 19
- Audio stops
- 12
Permanent: masters · Rotating: new work
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Object of the week · Room II
Light that arrives late
The painter left the lower third almost bare, so the eye finds the candle only after it has crossed the dark.Look closer
Marta Ilić
Vigil with Two Candles, 2019
- Medium
- Oil and wax on linen
- Size
- 120 × 96 cm
- Origin
- Split, Croatia
- Acc. no.
- KAL.2026.0142
Now on view
Exhibitions
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Room IIUntil 30 Mar 2027
The Patient Line
Old masters of line, from silverpoint to the reed pen.
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Room VIOpens 10 Dec 2026
Gardens After Rain
Large-format photographs of public gardens on four continents.
In the collection
Artists
Leyla Sadeghi
Blue Courtyard, 2024
Painting · Shiraz, Iran
Tomás Ferreira
Quarry Light, 2022
Sculpture · Porto, Portugal
Aiko Morimoto
Ink for Winter, 2021
Works on paper · Kyoto, Japan
Kwame Asante
Market at Dusk, 2023
Painting · Kumasi, Ghana
Live in the museum
Events
- 18NOV
Curator's walk: Salt and Horizon
Live guided tour · 45 min · Online
- 02DEC
Drawing with reed and ink
Workshop · 90 min · Online
- 10DEC
Opening night: Gardens After Rain
Room VI · Talk with the photographers
Reading room
Journal
- ESSAY
Why museums hang paintings at 145 centimetres
6 min read · 28 Oct 2026
- INTERVIEW
Aiko Morimoto on ink that refuses to dry
8 min read · 14 Oct 2026
- REPORT
Photographing a sculpture so it still has weight
5 min read · 2 Oct 2026
Membership
Join the museum
Entry is always free. Members keep the museum open and get closer to the work.
Friend
€40 / yr
- Members' preview of every exhibition
- Live curator tours
- Quarterly letter
Artist
€25 / yr
- Public profile in the directory
- Submit work to open calls
- Portfolio reviews
Institution
from €500 / yr
- Host an exhibition in a room
- Partner listing
- Group access for students
Preview · artists, works and dates are sample content