Converted grain silo opens as new art destination in southern Norway

2024-05-15T17:02:00-04:00

Norway’s new Kunstsilo Museum has opened to the public in the southern port city of Kristiansand.

The new home for the private collection of Nicolai Tangen is the product of a six-year transformation authored by Spanish studios Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida, and BAX in a former grain silo (hence the name) and integrates the Southern Norway Art Museum’s holdings seamlessly into one space that covers three floors and yields a total of 3,300 square meters (35,520 square feet) for exhibitions and cultural programming.

Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.

The overhaul of Arne Korsmo and Sverre Aasland’s original 1935 functionalist design evokes both the Tate Modern in London and Thomas Heatherwick’s popular 2017 reimagining of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa.

Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.

Inside, the collection of around 5,500 objects is presented in 25 galleries surrounding a large (6...

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Converted grain silo opens as new art destination in southern Norway