Bergen Kunstmuseum

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RT MUSEUMS OF BERGEN is a consolidated museum foundation. It is comprized of the homes of three composers/musicians, a museum for decorative arts and design and a museum for fine arts. These are the foremost museums for fine art, decorative art, design and music in the Bergen district.

ART MUSEUMS OF BERGEN consists of:

Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen 

Siljustøl Museum 

Lysøen Museum 

Permanenten: The West Norway 

Museum of Decorative Art 

Bergen Art Museum 

The museums do not share the same location. Permanenten and Bergen Art Museum are situated in the heart of Bergen city centre, while Troldhaugen lies along Lake Nordås, ca. 8 km south of Bergen city centre. Siljustøl also lies to the south of the city (ca. 13 km), near Flesland Airport. Ole Bull's summer villa, Lysøen Museum, is situated on the island of Lysøen in the municipality of Os.

Consolidated museums

The background for museum consolidation in Norway was the Parliamentary White Paper no. 22, from the Stoltenberg I government (1999-2000). The Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs set up a professional committee in order to carry out various new policies and directives, and called this new advisory and executive organisation the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling). The five art museums of Bergen were consolidated into one foundation in January 2007. 

The objective of the consolidation process is that the museums be organized into large enough units in order to have sufficient professional expertise to cover all important tasks. ART MUSEUMS OF BERGEN experiences many positive synergistic effects from this.

represented artists

Pierre Alechinsky      Karel Appel      Per Barclay      Fabrice Hybert      Asger Jorn      Wassily Kandinsky      Paul Klee      Bjarne Melgaard

Piet Mondrian      Edvard Munch      Yoko Ono      Pablo Picasso      Victor Vasarely      Wols