The 8 Best Art Museums in Hordaland, Western Norway

KODE is one of Scandinavia's largest museums for art and music. It has a unique combination of art museums and composers' homes, of visual art, historical objects, concerts and parklands. KODE stewards almost 50,000 objects that can be experienced in four museum buildings in Bergen city centre, KODE 1-4, and in the homes of the composers Ole Bull, Harald Saeverud and Edvard Grieg. Welcome to KODE!

Moelstertunet is a picturesque farmstead, with sixteen buildings surrounding an open farmyard. All of the buildings are still standing right where they were when the last family moved out in 1927. Walking through the farmstead will give you a unique insight in building traditions and living conditions in older times. The oldest building on the farmstead, an open-hearth log house, dates from the early 1500s. In the nearby exhibition hall a comprehensive exhibition will tell you more about how people lived and worked in Voss in older times. The museum also displays temporary exhibitions throughout the year. Voss folkemuseum has a huge collection of artifacts, folk art, tools and other objects. There is also a big archive, a small library, and one of the biggest museum collection of photos in Hordaland. From Moelster you have a wonderful view of Vossevangen and the Vangsvatnet lake. At the entrance you will also find a small cafe With a great view and a Museum shop. May 18th - August 31st: open daily 10-17 September 1st - May 16th: Mondays-Fridays 10-15 Sundays 12-15

Temporary exhibitions and concerts throughout the year. James Turrell's light installation Hardanger Skyspace. Ingebrigt Vik Museum is a collection of works by one of Norway's finest sculptors. You may see films about Vik, writer Olav H. Hauge and composer Geirr Tveitt on request. Café with home made cakes, light lunch, coffe etc. Sculpture park, museum shop and children's corner. Lovely view of the Hardangerfjord and Folgefonna glacier.

The Hardanger Folk Museum (founded in 1911). The main museum with its exhibition and administration building is at Utne, 200 metres from the ferry landing. Changing art and cultural history exhibitions throughout the year. Permanent exhibitions: Folk costumes and accessories and Folk Music. In the open-air museum we have reconstructed a traditional cluster farm in which the oldest building is a medieval log house with a central open fire. The museum also has an old general store, cotter's cottage and wooden ski factory. The boathouse by the sea houses several traditional Hardanger boats. There is a museum shop where you can buy arts and crafts, books/ booklets, local history items and folk music. The museum is located by a fruit orchard. The Hardanger Folk Museum has branches with open-air museums and collections at Bu near Brimnes and Skredhaugen near Lofthus. School and guide service.

The gallery exhibit paintings and sculptures made by Nils Bergslien (1853-1928). There is also a smaller room for exhibitions of contemporary art. The gallery is closed in wintertime. Open for cruiseship-arrivals and saturday/sunday 12-16. Closed for the season, the gallery opens 15.04.2021.

The Doll Maker’s Workshop and Gallery is in Grovarvn. 16.5 km from Vage, turn off at Tysnes Church. Handmade dolls in national costumes and medieval costumes and much more! Medieval hoods for adults and children. Prints by Magne Kjellesvik. Opening hours from 22 June until the end of July: Friday and Saturday 11.00 – 15.00. Open by agreement all year. Big groups by arrangement.Contact Britt Kjellesvik Rage.