Accelerator opended up at Stockholm University in September 2019. The initial idea to build an exhibition space at Sthe university site emerged from the long-standing and successful collaboration between the University and Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art in regard to the MA program in Curating Art. Accelerator was initiated by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf, Professor Emerita of Art History, and David Neuman, Museum Director Emeritus and current Chairman of Magasin III. In 2015, the Dean of Stockholm University, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, officially inaugurated Accelerator and the endeavor was launched. Richard Julin, appointed Artistic Director in 2016, began developing the artistic program, initially exhibited at various sites on the Frescati campus. Completed in autumn 2019, the new exhibition space was set into motion September of the same year. a public program of presentations and talks with artists, researchers, students and the general public. Accelerator’s program is driven by the ambition to contribute towards a transparent and empathetic society by opening up opportunities for art to spark discussion and interdisciplinary dialogue.