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NORWAY
Kvinnemuseet (National Women’s Museum)
“Rolighed”
Løkkegata 35
Kongsvinger N-2213
Ph: +47 62 88 82 90
Fax: +47 62 81 92 94
Email: post@kvinnemuseet.no
Website:
www.kvinnemuseet.no
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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. |
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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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