About the museum
The story of the KODE Art Museums of Bergen
KODE, the Art Museums of Bergen, is one of the largest museums of art, design and music in the Nordic countries. Its four buildings stand around the Lille Lungegårdsvann lake in the centre of Bergen.
Its collections include Edvard Munch, J. C. Dahl and Nikolai Astrup, and the homes of the composers Edvard Grieg and Harald Sæverud.
The collection
KODE brings together the collections of the Bergen Art Museum and the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art. Its Rasmus Meyer Collection holds one of the most important groups of Edvard Munch outside Oslo, shown in rooms decorated in historical styles.
It also shows Norwegian landscape painting by J. C. Dahl, the colourful works of Nikolai Astrup, and international modern art, as well as silver, design and the composers' homes of Troldhaugen and Siljustøl.
At ArtLogia you can order 7 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 1 artist.
- paintings to order
- 7
- artist
- 1
- art movement
- 1
- years covered
- 1889–1913
The building
Its four city-centre buildings stand in a row along the Lille Lungegårdsvann lake, from the 1920s Rasmus Meyer building to the 1896 Permanenten decorative arts museum.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
One ticket covers the four city-centre buildings, all a few minutes apart.
