What's happening

Visit our exhibitions. We offer guided tours, art workshops, talks, lectures, special tours and other events. Regular guided tours are included in the entrance fee. 

At our Tromsø location, we have a unique SKAPE Workshop that is available during opening hours. Visitors are welcome to use a range of materials and equipment for creative expression. Use of the workshop is free of charge.  

At our Bodø location, we have a presentation and event space called Festsalen. This space will host activities such as lectures, artist talks, film screenings and other workshop activities. Festsalen is also available for private events. Please contact … for further details.   

Exhibitions

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Svalbard
16.11.24 — 14.09.25
Olaf Storø

Stay away

In the artwork "Stay away" (2019), a polar bear looks us in the eye and gives us a clear message: You should not be here. This landscape was not created for humans.
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Tromsø
25.01.25 — 05.10.25

Layers of Time - Everyday Life in Svalbard

Three generations with different connections to Svalbard meet through their different artistic expressions. Can we learn anything from the old photographs?
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Bodø
25.02.25 — 31.08.25

Everything is Speaking – Stories in Motion

Nordnorsk Kuntmuseum welcomes you to the new museum department in Bodø/Bådåddjo with the exhibition “Everything is Speaking – Stories in Motion”. The exhibition shows a selection of artworks from the museum’s collection from the 19th century to the present day, by artists with northern Norwegian, Sámi, Norwegian and international backgrounds.
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Tromsø
15.03.25 — 03.08.25
Työ/Work

Kväänibiennaali 2025

The third edition of the Kven Biennial shines a spotlight on Kven contemporary art, and challenges the public to consider what Kven art can be. The biennial is the first exhibition at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum to feature exclusively artists with a Kven background.
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En dame kledd i en lang kjole som er hvit med rødt mønster fra samisk kultur. Hun står ved en fjord i arktisk landskap
Tromsø
02.05.25 — 01.08.25
Høysalen:

Our Arctic Archive

Høysalen (The high hall) will regularly house new works from the collection and function as a kind of project space, with complicated installations from the collection that mainly highlight female artists in the collection from Sápmi/Northern Norway.
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Knud Andreassen Baade, "Fuglefjell, Hestmandø", 1844
Tromsø
24.05.25

To nature

This exhibition looks to the nature of the North through a selection of artworks from the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum's collection. Common to the artists represented is that they convey nature, but with different perspectives, approaches, and presences.
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Upcoming exhibition

1
Svalbard
27.09.25
Maritea Dæhlin

– A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow

Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum is delighted to announce Maritea Dæhlin’s first major solo presentation "– A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow" – in Norway and Svalbard.
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Events

6
Summer Program in Tromsø
Tromsø
24.06.25 — 15.08.25
This summer we offer daily guided tours and introductions, and creative opportunities are available in the museum’s MakerSpace.
Summer Program at the Art Museum in Bodø
Bodø
24.06.25 — 17.08.25
We are pleased to invite you to experience our exhibition, “Everything Speaks – Stories in Motion,” that runs until August 31. We offer daily a guided tour in English in the exhibition, providing insightful commentary and context.  On Fridays, guests can take part in a lecture focusing on Sámi art in our Conferance Hall, also conducted in English.
Guided tour of the exhibition
Bodø
26.06.25 — 17.08.25
Join us for an exciting guided tour of an exhibition where art speaks and stories move. “Everything Speaks – Stories in Motion” is based on works from the museum’s own collection and offers three different perspectives on Northern Norway – from the intimate and personal to the socially engaged and political.
Introduction to Sámi art // Lecture
Bodø
04.07.25 — 01.08.25
, 13:00 — 13:45
Welcome to learn more about Sámi art. The opening exhibition "Everything is Speaking - Stories in Motion" features a number of Sámi artists from the collection of Nordnorsk kunstmuseum (Northern Norwegian Art Museum). In this lecture we take a closer look at Sámi art and recent art history with a focus on artists fromme differente parts of Sápmi.
Curator guided tour in the exhibition "Kväänibiennaali 2025 – Työ / Arbeid"
Tromsø
03.08.25
, 13:00
Join artist and curator of Kväänibiennaali 2025, Liv Bangsund, for a guided tour of the exhibition “Työ / Arbeid”.
Creative Workshop at Northern Norway Art Museum: The Sky in the North
Tromsø
10.08.25
, 11:30 — 16:00
Several of the artists in our new exhibition To Nature have drawn inspiration from celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars.