The Cultural Square in Lindesnes
Next →The culture square is located at Vigeland in Lindesnes Municipality – connected with the existing town hall – and contains a museum, a library, a museum, a cafeteria, the Gustav Vigeland Gallery as well as the municipal service square.
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The building contains two main functions – library and museum, placed in separate building volumes. The library is a simple glass prism on the ground level, and the museum is a closed volume – protecting its objects like a reliquary.
The visit to the museum took me on a vertical, circular walk - through thematic exhibits on the upper level through a lofty exhibition room down to the open storehouse below ground.
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The museum stairs over three levels are made of welded steel sheets made rusty with saltwater and then oiled with owatrol. The steel sheets in the stairwell carry the stairs and have recesses for display cases.
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The artistic ornamentation, which is an integrated treatment of the gable wall, is made by Jorunn Sannes. The cladding is broken up, and a coloured pattern emerges. The colours are mounted on the back of the wooden cladding and are reflected in a mirror covering the entire gable wall.
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