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Also enjoy a coffee and snack overlooking the fjord.
The Oslofjord Museum is located right by the fjord in the trading place Vollen, Asker. Here are nice little intimate shops, cafes and galleries. The coastal path goes right past the museum, and there are beaches nearby.
Welcome to the Oslofjord Museum in Vollen
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Welcome to the Peder Balke-center!
In a listed building from the 18th century, gorgeously situated on a hillside facing the lake, you will find our gallery. Inside is the ballroom which Peder Balke decorated with 12 wallpaintings in 1834. In addition to the wall paintings, in summer we host temporary exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists.
Peder Balke was a pioneer in 19th century Scandinavian landscape painting. In his pictures, he united the naturalistic vein of the romantic movement with a unique exploration of painting techniques. In recent years, interest in Balke's work has been steadily increasing, first with the exhibition Peder Balke – Vision and Revolution at the Nordnorsk Art Museum in 2014. This exhibition was a collaboration with the National Gallery, culminating in the Peder Balke exhibition in London in the period November 2014-April 2015). In April 2017, the exhibition Peder Balke – Painter of Northern Light opened at The Metropolitan in New York.
In 2025, the gallery is open from May 10th to September 21nd
De 4 årstider (interiorshop) og Gromt (Café) is open all year around Wednesday – Sunday (except January)
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11 – 16. Sunday: 12 – 16.
Lunch:
Gromt is the center’s own lunch restaurant.
Here you can eat a nice lunch, have a coffee with delicious cakes or order catering.
Interior shop:
The shop “De 4 årstider” is a interior shop with local crafts, local food and more.
The Area:
The sculptures, park and tea pavilion are open to the public at all times and the area around the Peder Balke-center is perfect for hiking.
Groups:
We welcome bookings for group tours outside of opening hours.
Welcome to the Oslofjord Art Centre!
This cozy gallery is located 30 minutes south of Oslo in the idyllic artist town of Drøbak. Current exhibitions with established and also new talented contemporary artists are shown here. The gallery has a great love for painting as a medium, but other artistic expressions will also find a place in the gallery. Oslofjorden Art Center wants to present breadth and variety so that the public gets to know the unique language of art.
Painting courses for both adults and children
Oslofjorden Art Center also organizes a number of different painting courses and art events for both children and adults throughout the year. The courses are held by visual artist Elisabeth Frøberg, who also owns and runs the gallery.
Read more about current exhibitions and painting courses here.
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Visit FigurMakeriet and KunstVerkstedet at Fru G.
FigurMakeriet offers a unique insight into the ancient art of figurine making.
During the 1800s, Italian figurine makers emigrated to Norway from places such as Bagni di Lucca. We have learned this amazing craft from the son of one of these emigrants, Valente, who ran a figurine workshop in Oslo until around 1960. Most of the gifts / home accessories are our own design, decorated by hand, and unique. We take great pride in continuing this old traditional craftmanship.
A selection of products from FigurMakeriet is available in our shop.
Draw inspiration from KunstVerkstedet. Among the items on sale are paintings, collages, and installations. Many of the works are by the hosts themselves, but there are also the occasional guest exhibitors at the gallery. Welcome to an array of creativity expressed in a variety of media.
FigurMakeriet & KunstVerkstedet are open from April to December.
About Fru G.
Fru G enjoys a rural setting, but is still only 5 minutes from route E6 and also within easy reach of Ringsaker church. In the building dating back to 1850, one of the beautiful rooms is used as a shop selling unique items from FigurMakeriet. Also on sale are seasonal produce from own garden, and gourmet food items from local producers.
Countryside café
The house also comprises a café and function rooms. We have let the “building decide” its interior design, and have decorated with old-world furnishings and artefacts. Your coffee is of course served from old porcelain coffee pots.
Weather permitting, you can enjoy lunch, coffee and homemade treats by the pond in our idyllic garden – or treat yourself to a bit of luxury with Fru G`s Æftas-Te in surroundings that are as made for a traditional English afternoon tea (NB! Æftas-Te must be booked two days in advance).
The garden pavilion is our own little "chambre separee", and is ideal for groups of up to 10 people looking for somewhere a bit more secluded.
Welcome, we hope you have an enjoyable time here with us!
Your hosts, Vivi-Ann and Asbjørn Gjersing
We are continuously working to create new designs and products.
Together with some of the most skilled and exciting designers and craftsmen in Norway today, we create magic!
More information see www.magnor.no
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Ås station has its own gallery. It offers new exhibitions each month.
In the station building we offer a gallery, shop, café, bike rental and various events.
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This art gallery is located in a heritage-listed building in beautiful surroundings right at the boundary between the districts of Innlandet. Gallery Fjordheim organises a wide variety of sales exhibits featuring both contemporary art and craft art. The unique gallery is the venue for creative exhibits. The gallery is located next to Lake Mjøsa, and visitors arriving by boat can moor at the gallery’s own private pier.
Welcome to Galleri Finsrud at Bilitt!
Galleri Finsrud has two branches, at Bilitt and Torkildstranda. Both exhibit the local multi-artist Reidar Finsrud's work, but it is Bilitt that is the foremost exhibition arena of the two.
At Billitt you can visit, among other things, see the perpetual motion machine "Perpetuum Mobile". This now world-famous perpetual motion machine came as a climax in a series of inventors' many technical constructions. At Bilitt you can also experience "Finsrud City", an impressive miniature world scaled down to 1:87, one of the world's largest miniature cities. Applicants can also see Finsrud's own women's series, a large Blücher painting and several light paintings, and tours of Finsrud itself can also be arranged.
Multi-artist Reidar Finsrud
Drøbak artist Reidar Finsrud is today regarded by many as one of the worlds most versatile artists. He works within the majority of thinkable formats and techniques. Painting, drawing, graphic and sculpturing. He does lectures at many topics, and has held his own art school since 1975. He's been thorough the fields of new and modern thinking, especially around technical inventions and industrial design. The technical insight of Mr. Finsrud is shown throughout machines like his handmade grand scaled graphic printing press, and all the machinery in context with his own techniques of casting. The now world known Finsrud Perpetual Mobile from 1996, came as a climax in the line of his numerous technical constructions. With "work years" at about 5000 hours, from the age of 16, Reidar Finsrud is today in possession of a broad experience basis at whole 110 normal annual works. If you count the "work years" and take them into consideration, Reidar Finsrud would be a 128 years old man. This may give him a little "head start".
Reidar Finsrud has also made the bronze sculpture of the three "Mermaids in Drøbak" in Drøbak boat harbour.
Read more about his gallery and his work here.
Opening hours:
Monday – Friday: at 12.00 – 17.00 / Saturday: 12.00 – 16.00
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Nitja Artcenter is an exhibition venue for contemporary art with location in Lillestrøm.
The art center aims to show the latest within installation, video, photography, drawing and painting made by young and upcoming artists.
The gallery displays a various number of exhibitions over two floors, in addition the art center run its own gallery shop and has a readinglounge.
Admission for free.
For more info on exhibitions see https://nitja.no/ or find us on Facebook.
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