Education
Malmö Konsthall runs an extensive educational program. Each year, we reach around 18,000 people through our activities at the art hall, as well as at schools, libraries, senior centers, youth clubs, and through our outreach work. The well-visited Workshop is at the heart of our educational activities, but our work extends far beyond the walls of the art hall.
Malmö Konsthall works to ensure that all residents of Malmö have equal opportunities to participate, influence, and co-create within the city’s cultural life. Our popular weekend and holiday workshops in the Workshop attract many visitors, but beyond that, we run programs at numerous other locations across the city.
A large part of our work is outreach, and we organize workshops in areas where the needs are greatest due to socio-economic challenges. This way, we reach residents of Malmö who, for various reasons, find it difficult to visit Malmö Konsthall.
School visits are an important part of our educational activities, as are cultural programs for older adults, creative activities for preschool children, youth, and people with disabilities. As part of the Finnish administrative area, we also offer guided tours and workshops in Finnish.
The Department of Culture works compensatorily in parts of Malmö where children and young people risk not having their rights met, and where needs are greatest due to socio-economic challenges. Although Malmö Konsthall offers free admission to all exhibitions and programs, many do not visit us—or are not even aware that we exist. Through our outreach work, we aim to reach people who, for various reasons, are unable to visit the art hall or feel unfamiliar with attending a cultural institution. This work allows us to reach children and young people living in various forms of vulnerability, as well as those temporarily staying in Malmö, such as children and youth living in migration.
Outreach work is relationship-building work, where we often first visit the programs on-site and then invite the group to the art hall. The aim is to spark interest and encourage participants to return to our regular activities, which offer free programs for children, youth, and families during weekends and holidays. We collaborate with actors from civil society, cultural administration programs, and other departments within the City of Malmö.
All children and young people in Malmö should have equal opportunities—both during school hours and in their free time—to engage with, influence, and create cultural experiences. For this reason, Malmö’s Department of Culture has developed the Cultural Right of Public Access during School Hours—a program offering free cultural experiences for children and youth in preschools, compulsory schools, and upper secondary schools, including, for example, children with special needs and those who, for various reasons, do not attend preschool or school. This ensures that all children and young people have at least one cultural experience per year and are made aware of Malmö’s rich and diverse cultural offerings.
At Malmö Konsthall, this work includes school visits. In 2025, over 2,000 students were visited by the art hall’s educators at their schools and later came to the art hall for guided tours and workshops. For the youngest children in preschool, ages 1–3, we offer The Path to the Sculpture—a resource and method for exploring the city and public art. We also collaborate with civil society to reach families and children in vulnerable situations. Our youth program, now called Malmö Konsthall U, is aimed at young people aged 13–25.
The Department of Culture works to strengthen and develop access to Malmö’s cultural life for people with disabilities. Since 2011, Malmö Konsthall, on the initiative of its staff, has been working to provide people with disabilities access to art and creative activities. The Konstlyftet project, now run in collaboration with the Department of Support for Persons with Disabilities and MKB, has over the years engaged several hundred participants. Konstlyftet includes exhibitions in the art hall’s Workshop, public art projects, and workshops. In autumn 2025, the art hall launched Studio Syd—a studio collective, gallery, and creative meeting place in Malmö for artists with non-normative abilities.
The Department of Culture works to reach children and young people even in areas facing the greatest socio-economic challenges. Malmö Konsthall conducts outreach activities in these areas, for example by holding workshops across most districts of Malmö. We also collaborate with organizations such as Skåne City Mission to organize workshops for families in vulnerable situations or for people in migration.
Larger projects
Malmö Konsthall runs many different educational projects that aim to give participants keys to art and creativity. The educational activities at Malmö Konsthall are mostly directed towards children and youth, but adults, the elderly, people with developmental disabilities and different language groups are also welcomed through targeted workshops and programmes.
Cultural programs for older adults are a collaboration between the Department of Culture and the Health, Care, and Social Services Department, aimed at strengthening and coordinating a rich, high-quality cultural offering for Malmö’s senior residents. Malmö Konsthall contributes with creative workshops for seniors, films, and discussion materials about art. Each year, Malmö Konsthall’s educators visit several senior homes with workshops and also invite participants to workshops at the art hall.
Culture can have a preventive, health-promoting, and rehabilitative effect in various ways. The project Culture on Prescription is aimed at individuals with mental health issues, offering creative workshops in a safe environment led by the educators of the Art Hall. The project was initiated by Region Skåne.
Do you enjoy discussing what you have read and seen? In the Short Story Club, we read short stories or other brief texts thematically connected to the current exhibition at Malmö Konsthall, and discuss the texts following a specific model. The Short Story Club is run in collaboration with Lindängen Library.
Studio KOAS
KOAS is an outward-facing artistic initiative that supports artists with non-normative abilities in pursuing a professional art practice. The studio is the first of its kind in southern Sweden.
Konstlyftet
Konstlyftet is a project for adults with developmental disabilities driven by Malmö Konsthall in collaboration with daily acitivity centres in Malmö. Konstlyftet aims to offer participants an open space for inspiration and creativity, based on every individual’s personal needs and on their own terms.
Malmö Konsthall U
Malmö Konsthall U is aimed at young people aged 13–25. Participants can take part in free, creative workshops and try DJing, graffiti, dance, design, and painting. The program is developed in consultation with the young people themselves.