The Rooseum, founded in 1988 by Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos (1951-1991), has after Mr. Roos' death been governed by a foundation formed by the City of Malmö, Lill and Axel Roos, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
The main financiers are the City of Malm�, the Swedish Government and a group of sponsors.
The museum director between 1988-89 was Anna Palmqvist, between 1990-95 Lars Nittve and between 1995-1999 Bo Nilsson.

The Rooseum is situated in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. The Rooseum galleries are in an attractive brick building in the center of the city.
The building, erected in 1900 to house the steam turbines of the Malmö Electricity Company, was designed by John Smedberg who studied under Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera.
Architect Jan Holmgren, SAR, of White Architects is responsible for having turned the location into a beautiful exhibition space, that is well suited to its purpose.

The exhibition space, totalling 1,400 square meters, is divided into three galleries with the great turbine hall as its natural center.
In its meticulously prepared exhibitions, you will encounter the art currently in the center of international debate. Such as separate exhibitions by Jean Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel (1989), Susan Rothenberg and Allan McCollum (1990), Sherrie Levine (1992), Kristján Gudmundsson (1993), Charles Ray (1994), Andreas Gursky (1995), Thomas Ruff (1996), Mike Kelley (1997), William Wegman (1998), Franz West (1999) and Robert Gober (1999).