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 About an hour’s drive from Oslo, the museum is located in the old part of Kongsvinger, a military town overshadowed by a 17C fortress where the Norwegian army still resides.
Løkkegata 35
Kongsvinger N-2213
Ph: +47 62 88 82 90
Fax: +47 62 81 92 94
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Website: www.kvinnemuseet.no
This museum collects the documentation of the lives and work of Norwegian women in its cultural history up to the present time and is housed in a mid 19C Swiss-style villa: “Rolighed” (“Peaceful Place”).
Due to the efforts of local academic and current director, Mrs Kari Sommerseth Jacobsen, the house was saved and restored, opening as a National Women’s Museum in 1995. The building was not only the childhood home of Dagny Juel, a well-known Norwegian female writer amongst the circle of painter Eduard Munch, but the Kongsvinger area also produced several Norwegian women first in their field.
An upstairs room has a permanent display on Dagny Juel’s life while the rest of the house is given over to a thematic exhibition, which changes annually. Recent topics include Women’s Body Image and the History of the Emancipation of Women in Norway.
The blue stencilled kitchen with period domestic furniture and equipment serves as the museum café – Café Dagny. There is also a long room with a grand piano, providing additional exhibition space and function space. The hallway serves as a reception and point of sales.
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