The Nationalmuseum is government sponsored and is mandated with preserving cultural heritage and promoting art and interest in art. But it is along these lines that some of the museum’s visitors have recently taken to social media to denounce the addition of warnings of nationalism, racism and sexism implicit in some of their pieces of classic art. These politicised labels describe the racist and sexist connotations of the classical works through a distinctly modern lens. Was Sweden’s Nationalmuseum right to add warnings to classic art works

