The name Vandalorum comes from the museum man Pontus Hultén who was involved in the project early on and who led the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano to draw a concept for the building. Hultén made a major exhibition in 2001 at the Knäppfabriken in Värnamo called The True Story of the Vandals and that would tell and prove that the wandering people Vandals would have a historical connection to Småland. Their names have taken on a negative meaning because they persecuted Catholics and plundered Rome.
Hultén received the genitive form Vandalorum from the memorial stone to Queen Christina in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, which reads: Christinae Svecorum — Gotthorum and Vandalorum Reginae. Thus, she would have been “Queen of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals”. Today, people prefer to use the word “venderas”, but it is uncertain whether they are the same people they are referring to.
