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Modernism and country, hand in hand

About how rural art provided inspiration and identity to Norwegian modernist painting

A wonderful chaotic range

The interest in folk art has seen better days. Can Drammens Museum help reverse the trend? asks Lars Elton.

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Treasure hunt on an old coffin


Rose-painted coffins and decorated beer bowls mixed with fertility symbolism and hints of incest. About the exhibition Norwegian modernism and the village's decorative painting. 

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The modernists who wanted to return to the village

Radical, Norwegian painters cultivated rural art and surrounded themselves with rose-painted beer bowls. A new exhibition will show that modernism also meant opposition to the modern.

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Paint in rural harmony

Review of the exhibition Norwegian modernism and the village's decorative painting in Hallingdølen

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Brought out the good Christmas mood

Good atmosphere at this year's Christmas market at the museum

Name in the news - Terje Tvedt

Cultural evening at the museum with a lecture by Terje Tvedt

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Art Straight West is underway

700 people at the exhibition opening

Time to harvest art

Art Straight West at Drammens Museum

This year's largest exhibition underway

A total of 121 artists from the Western Region are represented in the exhibition Art Right West 2018.

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