The Southern Norway Art Museum () is located in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

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in the building that until 1970 hosted the Kristiansand Cathedral School. The museum is a foundation, and it was created in 1995, with the counties of

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and

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as initiators together with the municipality of Kristiansand and the Kristiansand Art Gallery. The museum is working with both art and crafts. The foundation will work to create interest, awareness and competence in relation to the visual arts, crafts and other visual forms of expression. The museum runs extensive art-related activities, that includes exhibits of the permanent collection, temporary contemporary art exhibitions and traveling exhibitions to schools and preschools. In April 2024, Norwegian media were the first to publish a series of photos from the '' Kunstsilo'' (museum) in Kristiansand; Media took the photographs without successfully negotiating a permission from the museum.

Collections

The museum's permanent collections are based on art that belonged to the Kristiansand Art Gallery. Among the artists represented are

Christian Krohg Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life. He was the director and s ...

, Morten Müller,

Johan Christian Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish- Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. He is often ...

, Amaldus Clarin Nielsen,

Kjell Nupen Kjell Nupen (September 5, 1955 – March 12, 2014) was a Norwegian contemporary artist. He was a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Early years Kjell Nupen had his professional breakthrough very early. At just 17 years old, he was admitted to ...

Karsten Jakobsen Karsten Jakobsen (15 July 1928 – 8 January 2019) was a Norwegian engineer. He was a professor and Rector (academia), rector (1990–1993) at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science ...

and

Else Marie Jakobsen Else Marie Jakobsen (28 February 1927 – 12 December 2012) was a Norwegian designer and textile artist. Biography Jakobsen was born and raised in Kristiansand, Norway. She graduated from Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (n ...

.About the collections
(in Norwegian)

References

External links

* * unstsilo is ready. Here, Tangen sees the art collection, on the wall for the first timehttps://www.dn.no/video/m/6RlT684B/kunstsilo-er-klar-her-ser-tangen-kunstsamlingen-pa-veggen-for-forste-gang?play=1. DN.no. Year, 2024 Museums in Kristiansand Art museums and galleries in Norway Art museums and galleries established in 1995 1995 establishments in Norway {{Norway-museum-stub