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
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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Upcoming exhibition

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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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Guided tour in the exhibition "Layers of Time - Everyday Life in Svalbard"
Tromsø
04.05.25
, 14:00 — 14:45
Three generations with different connections to Svalbard meet through their different artistic expressions. Can we learn anything from the old photographs?
Guided tour by artist and musician Aggie Grøndal Peterson in "Layers of Time – Everyday life in Svalbard"
Tromsø
10.05.25
, 12:00
Join artist and musician Aggie Grøndal Peterson in the exhibition for a truly unique experience of "Layers of Time – Everyday life in Svalbard"
Natur og gjenbruk i kunst – tekstil – arkitektur
Bodø
12.05.25
, 12:00 — 16:15
Velkommen til et tverrfaglig seminar med fokus på kystkultur, husflid og klær, gjenbruk, planter og tang i relasjon til tekstilkunst, samt sirkulær arkitektur.
Kunstnersamtale med Rune Johansen
Bodø
15.05.25
, 19:00 — 20:30
I forbindelse med utstilling «Alt snakker – Fortellinger i bevegelse», inviterer vi publikum til å bli bedre kjent med et utvalg av kunstnere i utstillingen. I mai er det Rune Johansen publikum møter.
Foredrag med billedkunstner Eva Bakkeslett
Bodø
25.05.25
, 13:00 — 14:30
Vi inviterer publikum til en serie foredrag/samtaler der foredragsholderne kommer med ulike innfallsvinkler til tematikken i utstillingen Alt snakker – fortellinger i bevegelse.
Foredrag med kunsthistoriker Charis Gullickson
Bodø
14.06.25
, 13:00 — 14:30
Vi inviterer publikum til en serie foredrag/samtaler der foredragsholderne kommer med ulike innfallsvinkler til tematikken i utstillingen "Alt snakker – fortellinger i bevegelse".