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The Bergen Art Museum, now KODE, is located in the heart of the city, on the banks of the Bergen lake and directly opposite the city park. There are four of its buildings, which from the spring of 2013 and are designated KODE-1, KODE-2 and so on. In general, this is one of the largest museums in the Nordic countries. KODE collections include various masterpieces of world art ranging from the Renaissance to the present day

In 2006 KODE united not one but five museums

The history of the museum is long and solid . The decision about the organization of the art museum was adopted in 1825, and in 1887 the Museum of Applied Arts was opened in the city . Today there are about 43,000 items in the KODE joint collection . These are paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and video recordings . The impressive part of them has passed museum from private collectors . For example, so yla collected Chinese collection, whose items are regularly transferred to the museum in general Myunthe between 1907 and 1935 (exhibition closed after a robbery at the beginning of 2013) . A silver treasury was entirely transferred to the museum in 2007; it collected about 600 amazing gold and silver items that were created in Bergen for five hundred years .

Serious changes began in 2006, when KODE united not one but five museums. This is the house-museum of Edward Grieg of Trollhaugen, the museum of Harald Severud, the museum of Ole Bull and the very first - the Bergen Art Museum and the West Norwegian Museum of Applied Arts.

Visit all KODE buildings by a single ticket that operates for two days. He also gives a discount to visiting the Edvard Grieg house museum.

In order to make it easier to navigate between the four KODE buildings, it is enough to know the basic vectors . So, KODE-1 is the former Museum of Applied Art of Western Norway . Collection of Chinese art, the Silver Treasury, the exhibition of design, arts and crafts for the past half a millennium and temporary expositions . KODE-2 - the collection of Stenerersens . Contemporary art, permanent and temporary exhibitions, the largest museum store on the ground floor next to the cafe . @ KODE-3 Rasmus Mayer collection . One of the richest collections of Edvard Munch works in the world, as well as art samples from Norway of the 18-19th centuries . KODE-4 - a large and old permanent exhibition of paintings, ranging from Klee and Picasso and ending with Miro and Dali, as well as an exposition of the works of Norwegian Nikolai Astrup . Here is also a separate "museum in the museum": KunstLab .

KunstLab is the first art museum for children and youth in the country, interactive and cognitive. They even take you to school. Of course, in KunstLab you can draw, sculpt, make and so on. And yet - to play and learn. There is a separate art gallery specially for children. Entrance to all under 16 years in KunstLab is free.