Moderna Museet presents Bucky Dome. A pavilion for music, art, architecture, and design on view through 9 September 2012.
At Skeppsholmen this summer you will find everything you need for a great summer experience with music, art, a family workshop, food, and picnic hampers.
What is the Bucky Dome?
In summer 1971, Moderna Museet and Bengt Carling, built a dome according to the American architect Buckminster Fuller’s concept of “more with less.”
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (1895–1983) was an American architect, visionary, designer, and writer. He became famous for his geodesic domes, which are still in use as radar stations, city halls, and exhibition venues.
Throughout the summer of 1971, the jazz musician Don Cherry, his artist wife Moki Cherry, their children Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry, and a cat all lived in the “Jail” on Skeppsholmen, inviting their musician and artist friends to the “Dome” to play music, perform, paint, and arrange educational art activities for kids and grown-ups.
From May to September this year, Bengt “Beche” Berger and Bengt Carling will be collaborating with Arkitekturmuseet and Moderna Museet to recreate the Bucky Dome.
Moderna Museet
Exercisplan 4
111 49 Stockholm, Sweden
www.modernamuseet.se
