Culture

Jugendstilsenteret is located in the old Swan Pharmacy from 1907 and is both a museum and a national centre of Art Nouveau.

Agatunet is traditional Norwegian village center near Aga in Ullensvang by the Sørfjorden. The oldest building is the Lagmannsstova from 1220. At Agatunet you can book guided tours and see art and cultural-historical exhibitions. It is owned by a fou...

Experience the fascinating history of the Sunnmøre region at the Medieval Age Museum in Borgundkaupangen.

Discover the childhood home of the famous Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1903.

Egersund Fayancemuseum conveys the history of Egersunds Fayancefabrik (1847-1979). The factory made a variety of products from clay, such as cups and vessels, vases, and ornaments. If you and your family want to make something out of clay, you can bo...

Programme about local traditions, pasture farming and goat cheese production. Music, guiding, demonstrations.

At Sirdal Mountain Museum a collection of buildings and artefacts from Sirdal is presented, where the oldest building is from the 1770s. 

The exhibition "Stones of Bømlo" (Steinriket Bømlo) is found in Moster Amfi.

Idyllic island of Kvitsøy lies far out on the fjord between Haugesund and Stavanger. It is the smallest of Ryfylke's municipalities. The island is home to one of Ryfylkemuseets finest museum sites, Kvitsøy Hummermuseet.

The Flåm Railway & Documentation Centre gives you an insight in the building of the Flåm Railway, its exiting history, and its technological development. 

Stavanger, the Norwegian street art capital of Norway! Paul Harfleet is a London-based artist, writer and designer who has been planting pansies, a garden flower that shares its name with a homophobic slur, at sites of homophobic abuse for 15 years.

The Veveriet was built to house weaving looms, that were driven by power from the river next to it. It is an important building in the town's textile heritage. Today the building is a cultural centre, housing the town's library, and culture facilitie...

Learn about the history of the dramatic resistance fighting in the Matrefjella mountains outside Bergen, where the last World War II battles in Europe took place.

A croft on Husøya (Ona) from 1793. Visit Steffågarden and experience coastal cultural history from the outermost islands of Romsdal.

You don't have to go to New York for the Statue of Liberty – Visnes has it's very own. The reason for this is that Statue of Liberty in New York is built of copper from the Visnes Mines.

Stavanger, the Norwegian street art capital of Norway! Dolk is a Norwegian street artist best known for his stencil works.

The Barony in Rosendal the only one of its kind in Norway and a major attraction in Western Norway.

Several places in Jørpeland, Strand, you will find Street Art with great local scene as "Krokhølsmeden" and "the girl with the pulpit Rock" performed by Bart Bergen v/Naeem Searle.

Åbøbyen in Sauda in Ryfylke, is one of the best-preserved residential areas for industrial and office workers built during the establishment of energy-intensive industry in Norway.

The art museum, within walking distance of Haugesund city centre, gives you older art and contemporary art in one place!