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"The idea is to make the National Gallery an open and dynamic home for the public, the arts at the center of its concerns," said Karin Hindsbo, director of the National Museum.
For several years, the debate is about the use of the National Gallery of Oslo at the closing of the museum on January 13 of next year. Then, they transferred more than 120,000 works from the museum's houses to the new National Museum, which opens in the West Bank in 2020.
On Monday afternoon, Hindsbo, Culture Minister Trine Skei Grande (V), and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Director André Støylen presented a preliminary draft study on the future use of the building.
Will rehabilitate and open
The draft will be completed sometime next year and financed by the foundation of the savings bank. Then, the building, completed in 1882, will be used concretely.
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Even now, however, the three people indicate that they want to rehabilitate built and unobstructed rooms that are not open to the public today, such as the third floor and the basement. This could be a larger audience, but also studios and production rooms for the artists themselves.
"I think it's also important to have arenas where everyone is not dead," said Grande.
"I find it fun to look for new ways to develop museum concepts and reach out to new groups – here we have an arena where we can take the whole story, but all over again," said the Minister of Culture.
Still part of the National Museum
When Jeløy's statement was submitted by government parties in January, it was determined that the National Gallery will still be part of the National Museum, even after its move to the West Bank. The principle is that there are no major rehabilitation costs.
"In the Jeløy Declaration, we thought that it should not be a backyard building, but that it had to have its own artistic power," said Grande.
There is currently no date for reopening the museum, but Grande hopes it will not be too long.
"I hope that I will always be Minister of Culture when the National Gallery of Fine Arts reopens," she says.
(NTB)
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