What to do and see in Sentrum, Western Norway: The Best Museums

Galleri GEO is an art gallery and space to showcase the work of established and unestablished artists in the ‘’street and contemporary art scene’’. We thrive to push ourselves in new creative directions to make sure the gallery always develop and produce new high quality and innovative exhibitions. We host both national and international artists with our simple goal - to produce the best shows possible where borderlines don’t matter. We're an art house and share location with Ramme Service who offer custom framing on all artworks.

Kunsthuset Wendelboe is a small art gallery located in the middle of the city center. It specializes in artists from the local area and the west cost of Norway, both contemporary and old. It houses a large collection of artworks in a wide price range.

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!

etween 1850 and 1900 Bergen had three hospitals for leprosy patients and the largest concentration of patients in Europe. The city’s oldest leprosy hospital, St. George’s Hospital, is now not only a monument to thousands of personal tragedies, it is also an important arena for the dissemination of Norwegian work and research on leprosy. In many parts of the world leprosy is commonly known as Hansen’s disease, after the Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen who discovered the leprosy bacillus in Bergen in 1873. The herb garden we meet today is from the 1990s.

Alternating exhibitions of contemporary art. - a place for dicovery, experiences and surprises. The Bergen Contemporary Arts Gallery (founded in 1838) is beautifully located by the pond Lille Lungegardsvann, in the centre of downtown Bergen. The galley presents changing exhibitions of Norwegian and international contemporary art. The building, designed in 1936 by the architect Ole Landmark, has an exhibition area of 450m2 and a seperate sales gallery. The Festival Exhibition which annually runs from May-August, is the most important exhibition.

The School Museum is one of Bymuseet i Bergens museums, located in the old Latin school in Lille Øvregate, right next to the Cathedral. On the first floor you can see what the school might have looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. On the second floor changing exhibitions are presented in an exhibition with beautiful school plans. Its one of the oldest school buildings in Norway. It was built after the big city fire in the early 18th century. There was also a school here before the fire, and the history of this school goes all the way back to the 12th century. The first schools were for those who were to become priests and eventually for rich sons. In the 19th century, it became more common to attend school, and towards the end of the 19th century most people received some education in Norway. In the School Museum we show what the old Latin school from 1706 to 1840 may have looked like. The school consisted of several classrooms and housing for the principal.