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

TIL NATUREN

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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Events

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Lecture with artist Eva Bakkeslett
Bodø
25.05.25
, 13:00 — 14:30
We invite the audience to a series of lectures/conversations where the speakers will present different approaches to the theme of the exhibition. On 25 May, we will meet artist Eva Bakkkeslett, first we will have an introductory lecture, then we will move on to a conversation moderated by Liv Brissach (curator at Nordnorsk kunstmuseum), the audience is also actively invited to participate.
Artist talk with Are Andreassen
Bodø
05.06.25
, 19:00 — 20:30
In connection with our ongoing exhibition ‘Everything speaks - Stories in motion’, we invite the public to get to know some of the artists in the exhibition. In June, the public will meet Are Andreassen. He has been active in the art scene in Northern Norway for several decades. His work includes graphics, sculpture and digital techniques.
Lecture with art historian Charis Gullickson
Bodø
14.06.25
, 13:00 — 14:30
We invite the public to a series of lectures/conversations where the speakers will present different approaches to the theme of the exhibition ‘Everything is speaking - Stories in motion’.