It's happening at Marienlyst!

2 October 2023

SONGS FROM THE ANTHROPOCE

14 September 2023

New Conservator at Drammen's Museum

11 May 2023

Living landscape.

22 February 2023

Thorvald Erichsen's painting 1920-1939

Eivor Winther Sunesen employed as acting director

12 January 2023

Press release

Workshop: Birgit Hagen «Lonely heart»

March 2, 2022

Exhibition opening Birgit Hagen - Lonely heart

February 10, 2022

Museum 2021

31. May 2021

The museum's magazine MUSEET is now on its way out to the mailboxes in Drammen.

Curator Åsmund Thorkildsen about Kåre Øijord

February 11, 2021

Kåre Øijord - A man, his time and his landscape

February 4, 2021

The barn from Straumen has now been completely restored

January 20, 2021

The barn from Straumen in Norway has been completely restored with several extensive and necessary improvements. Traditional craftsmen Audun Eken, Eivind Vinger and Thomas Løken have restored the log building which is now secured for the future.

What Looks Good is Good

January 20, 2021

We have the pleasure of presenting new works in the collection in the Exhibition Room in the Museum Building. The purchased works are by the artists Ulla-Mari Brantenberg, Marit Tingleff, Ann-Cathrin November Høibo and Tron Meyer.

The many ways to go…

June 5, 2018

We are so lucky in Drammen that we have a unique cultural monument that is used by the city's population almost 150 years after it was built. A group of far-sighted citizens saw the potential that lay in Bragernesåsen.

What does the 20th century look like?

July 12, 2017

It is, of course, a hopeless question to answer, what a whole century looks like. And it must also be asked, when did the 20th century actually begin and when does it end?

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.