Lars Nittve

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Lars Nittve (born 17 September 1953) is a Swedish museologist and art critic. Between 1979 and 1985 he was an art critic on the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Nittve was curator at the art museum Rooseum in Malmö (1986–1990), director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (1995–1998) north of Copenhagen in Denmark. In 1998, he became head of Tate Modern in London, England. He has since 2001 been director of Moderna Museet, the national museum for modern art in Stockholm.