An Insiders selection!

July 9, 2017

Drammens Museum has been a museum since 1908, and we like to say that we have approx. 50,000 items in our collection. In the collection we have "ones" within their genre, such as trophies from Nøstetangen, silver objects from famous silversmiths in Drammen, rose-painted objects by Herbrand Sata, textiles woven by Frida Hansen and paintings by JC Dahl.

Popular lecture series on the concept of identity

July 7, 2017

What do we put in the concept of identity? In a series of lectures, we have invited researchers in various disciplines to share their knowledge with us and the public at our Culture Evenings based on the concept of identity.

When the present meets the past

June 13, 2017

Cyclical time at Hallingtunet

June 7, 2017

We think we are getting less and less time, and feel more and more need to arrange the little time we have. We have calendars, with dates for each day of the year, and weeks and months with names in specific order. A record calendar has a spring page and an autumn page; on June 30, we turn the calendar over, and when the year is over, we throw it away: the year is over, we are done with it, and it will never come again.

THE MUSEUM - summer 2017

June 2, 2017

Generous support for Art Criticism on the fly

April 21, 2017

Drammens Museum has received support from the Norwegian Cultural Council for further development of the concept "Art criticism on fire!"

Rural art at a museum in the city

October 12, 2016

At Drammens Museum we have a fabulously beautiful collection of 18th and 19th century art and visual art culture from town and country. Highlights of this collection are displayed daily in the museum's main building at the exhibition Objects for Life.

The school's cultural history

July 15, 2016

School is something that absolutely everyone is interested in. Everyone has parents who have gone to school, everyone has gone to school, most have children who go to school.

We at the museum

June 28, 2016

In addition to museum director Åsmund Thorkildsen, we are 10 employees at Drammens Museum who work in various ways to ensure that our audience is met with a comprehensive and varied museum offer.

Pictures from the Haiku performance during Culture Night Drammen on 25 May

June 27, 2016

The Savings Bank Foundation and the museum's dissemination

June 21, 2016

Sparebankstiftelsen DNB is the most important supporter of Drammens Museum outside the public awards.

Kjell Nilsen - leader of Friluftsmuseet's friends

June 16, 2016

Kjell Nilsen is the leader of Drammens Museum's new Friends Association Friluftsmuseet Venner and was in his time to start both Gulskogen's farm friends and Austad farm friends. I have a commitment to both culture and sports and my heart beats for Drammen, he says eagerly before the start of the season for the new friends association.

Dissemination to children and young people every day throughout the year

June 6, 2016

Every day throughout the school year, it is crowded with children and young people here at the museum. The various dissemination schemes are adapted to age, theme and curricula. During a school year, there are about 10,000 students at the museum from 7 different municipalities through DKS.

Launch of the magazine MUSEET

June 1, 2016

On Saturday 4 June, we launch the magazine MUSEET, which is a magazine from Drammens Museum.

Find Schjøll on the museum's garden day

May 23, 2016

Finn Schjøll held a terrific flower show on the museum's garden day on 22 May. The audience clapped and laughed so the tears rolled! There was otherwise a good atmosphere among exhibitors and in the children's workshops.

The museum building is finally restored

April 26, 2016

The museum is in the process of renovating the façade of the museum building, which began in 1924 and was completed in 1930. After the façade renovation, the building will appear in its former glory.

Art criticism fired!

February 25, 2016

The concept is inspired by cooking and music programs on television. We have arranged two evenings with this concept and experience that the audience finds this both educational and entertaining.

Denmark's design hero for Drammen

February 4, 2016

Kay Bojesen is associated with "the mood in Danish design" and gave life to the charming tripe
which adorns many a Norwegian home today. Now the largest exhibition of his products outside Denmark ever is presented at Drammen Museum.