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The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit is a private foundation with the primary purpose of promoting scientific and scholarly research.

Research and education

Applied history is a key theme in the foundation’s research and education projects.

Seminars

Since 1999, the foundation has brought together world-leading scholars and thinkers to discuss our past, present and future.

Publishing

In a changing media landscape, the foundation provides content about science, culture, education and tradition.

Featured projects

Woke

The term ”woke” has recently been assigned as a label for a political force that is difficult to define but easy to recognise.

Perspectives on Iconoclasm

What is it about images and symbols that affect us so deeply that we feel compelled to break them?

New research sheds light on the history of abstract art

Anna Cassel: The Saga of the Rose is published in February and sheds new light on Cassel and her influence on early abstract art.