Category: Norway

26
Jun
2018

Deichmanske library

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CLIENT: OSLO MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: CONCEPT TOOLBOX TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: OSLO, NORWAY
In an international invited competition Kvorning were selected to develop the exhibition concept for the new Public Library in Oslo, Norway.
Deichmanske opens in 2018 and resides between two of the city’s prominent landmarks: The Oslo Opera by Snohetta and the central station.
With a total area of 10,000 m2, the library will become one of the most modern libraries in Europe and have more than 2 million visitors annually.
15
Jun
2018

Grimstad bys museer

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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.

14
Jun
2018

Alta Museum

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CLIENT: ALTA MUSEUM
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: ALTA, NORWAY
Kvorning has masterminded the World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum’s 150 sq.m exhibition, Traces in Stone, about Alta’s world heritage, rock art, which opened in Norway. A modern, interactive exhibition about the rock art of Alta including UNESCO-protected rock carvings and rock paintings made approximately 7,000 to 2,000 years ago. Alta has Northern Europe’s largest occurrence of rock art from the hunter-gatherer society. It constitutes the most important evidence of settlements and human activity so far north during prehistoric times. And as a result it was added to UNESCO’s world heritage list in 1985.

The permanent exhibition offers plenty of interaction and entertainment for everyone. Here, for example, visitors young and old can sculpt out a rock carving, go exploring in the history of Alta in the Landscape Game and generate luminescent rock carvings in the dark by lamplight. Trace in Stone offers experiences and activities that will wow, inform, generate debate and provide food for thought. The exhibition also includes a selfie booth with Northern Lights, buttons and infographics that conjure up and animate the magic of the spirit world of the past.

“With Trace in Stone we invite the public to enjoy experiences, participation and exploration, while at the same time encouraging their curiosity and engagement. The exhibition provides an altogether different experience to previous exhibitions, and visitors will learn about rock art by using both their hands and their heads. The museum has been working on the exhibition for many years, and we are extremely proud that we can now show it off to both the local population and all our visitors,” states Harriet Hagan, Manager of the World Heritage Rock Art Centre at Alta Museum.

 

09
Apr
2018

The Coastal Museum in Sør-Trøndelag

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CLIENT: THE COASTAL MUSEUM IN SØR-TRØNDELAG
PROJECT: CONCEPT, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: HITRA, NORWAY
Kvorning and the Norwegian Vindfang have won the competition for an exhibition concept about Norway’s second-largest export business, the aquaculture industry, for the Coastal Museum under the museum complex at Sør-Trøndelag in Norway. ’The Pioneers’ takes as its inspiration the tales of the initiative-takers ’from the fish-farming heartland’. Who were they? What did they think? How did they advance by trial and error? What proved successful? And what did they learn?

At Hitra, on an island just off Trondheim, it’s all about salmon. Here, fish eggs are fertilized, matured and hatched in fresh water. Here young salmonids grow to full size in the floating fish-rearing cages of the sea. And here at the Coastal Museum’s Sandstad Department they are harvested. So this is the obvious location to convey the history of the Norwegian fish-farming industry, and to let 24 pioneers tell you about their contribution to the development of Norway’s second-largest export trade.

Kvorning and Vindfang’s concept conveys Norwegian fish-farming history from 1970 to the present day through three major narratives: The local history, with animation of Hitra and the area; the national history of the pioneers along the coast from Finnmark to Vestfold, and the history of the salmon and the industry as a reworked 360-degree show with moving pictures and natural sounds in Aegir’s Hall: the octagonal cinema. Silhouettes of the pioneers reflect the dynamics. Past and present.

26
Jun
2017

Norwegian Petroleum Museum – Deep Secrets

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CLIENT: NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM MUSEUM
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: STAVANGER, NORWAY
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger and Kvorning launched a new exhibition, Deep Secrets, about petroleum geology. The concept features a distinctive key idea accompanied by stunningly grand visual effects and offer facts and knowledge in a pioneering form.

Deep Secrets is pure Jules Vernes! Exploration, activities and drama, lots of challenges for hearts and minds, analogue and digital attractions which stimulate collaboration, learning and play, the exhibition appeals to 12-year olds – and thus involves entire families.

The permanent exhibition was won in invited competition.

 

 

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