The Norveg Coastal Culture and Industry Center ( no, Norveg – senter for kystkultur og kystnæring) is part of the Nord-Trøndelag Coastal Museum on the island of

Vikna Vikna is a large island archipelago and a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined Nærøysund Municipality. It was part of the Namdalen region. The admini ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Norveg contains historical exhibits, a restaurant, a gallery, and a cultural center. The head of the Nord-Trøndelag Coastal Museum is Charles Utvik. The museum is located in the municipal center, the village of

Rørvik Rørvik is a port town and administrative centre in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is on the eastern side of the Vikna archipelago on the island of Inner-Vikna. The town has a population (2022) of 3,385 and a po ...

, near the Norwegian Coastal Express, and it is one of the characteristic landmarks along the coast. The museum's new building, which was opened by King

Harald V Harald V ( no, Harald den femte, ; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway. He acceded to the throne on 17 January 1991. Harald was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the lin ...

on June 16, 2004, was designed by the architect

Guðmundur Jónsson Guðmundur Jónsson (born 11 December 1953) is an Icelandic architect who lives in Norway. He was educated at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (1975–1981) and ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design) in Ital ...

and was nominated for Europe's most important architectural award, the

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Eu ...

, in 2005. The museum's founder, Paul Woxeng (1883–1967), began his cultural-historical collection work in 1919, and in 1932, he built a separate house for the collections on his farm, named Vågsenget. In 1970, the municipality of Vikna purchased the collection, and part of the property was designated a museum. Later, in the 1970s, the Woxeng Collection was moved to the Berggården trading post. The Nord-Trøndelag Coastal Museum and Norveg comprise a total of about 15 points in Rørvik and Berggården, as well as in Vågsenget and the abandoned fishing village of Sør-Gjæslingen. Norveg is

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

millennium site A millennium site ( no, tusenårssted) is a site selected by a Norwegian municipality or county municipality to mark the transition to the 2000s. In Norway it was decided that the counties and municipalities would choose one millennium site for ...

. The Coastal Museum is a division of the Midt Museum, where Sigmund Alsaker serves as director. The Midt Museum also includes the Norwegian Sawmill Museum, Nord-Trøndelag Art Museum, and Namdal Museum in

Namsos ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kl ...

, as well as museum sites without staff in six municipalities in

Namdalen Namdalen ( sma, Nååmesjevuemie) is a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, Røyrvik, Nærøysund, Høylandet, Flatanger, Lierne, Leka, Norway, Leka, ...

References

External links

Norveg museum homepage
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