Grimstad bys museer
Morten Smith Petersen / Grimstad bys museer / Kvorning Design & Communication / Norway / permanent exhibition / Grimstad / case
CLIENT: GRIMSTAD BYS MUSEER
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: GRIMSTAD, NORWAY
In international competition The Museum Foundation of Grimstad in Southern Norway chose Kvorning to create a permanent exhibition about fellow townsman Morten Smith Petersen (1817-1872) – one of the first and most influential Norwegian ship-owners, who also practiced law and politics.
Kvorning designed the exhibition about Morten Smith Petersen’s significant influence on local, national and international matters. The setting being Hasseldalen in Grimstad, which Smith Petersen bought in 1848. Here, his ships were crafted and he built his shipping business.
As a ship-owner and businessman Smith Petersen was a keen advocate of modernizing and professionalizing the Norwegian shipping trade and as a politician he believed strongly in free trade and the “autonomy of the shipping companies”. Smith Petersen was also co-founder of Det norske Veritas in 1864.