Agnes Slott-Møller, The Fair Little Bird (artist’s title), 1922. Owner: Sorø Art Museum. Photo: Ole Akhøj.
A Modern Middle Ages
9 May to 13 September 2026
During the museum's opening hours.
“A Modern Middle Ages” is based on the friendship between the Danish artist couple Agnes (1862–1937) and Harald Slott-Møller (1884–1937), and the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), and on their shared fascination with the Middle Ages and the English Pre-Raphaelites.
For the first time in the Nordic region, the exhibition will present a broad selection of works by Agnes and Harald Slott-Møller—both paintings and decorative/applied arts—highlighting the strong connection between the three major oeuvres. The artistic framework is the ideological milieu surrounding the English Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement. Artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones will be represented with several works.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Frederiksborg, the Museum of National History in Denmark.
