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The Children’s Art Museum, Kristiansand

Children experience the world through play. Why shouldn’t they explore art the same way?

Architect: Stiv Kuling AS
Published 06 Feb, 2015
 
The Children’s Art Museum, Kristiansand. The exhibition is made up of a number of cabinets that allow for how children move and explore.

The Children’s Art Museum, Kristiansand. The exhibition is made up of a number of cabinets that allow for how children move and explore.

Inside one of the cabinets.

Two “flying boxes” hanging from the ceiling allow the children a private meeting with the artwork.

The sloping floor-mounted “cabinet” allows the children to handle and study art and craft objects close up.

The sloping floormounted “cabinet”.

The sloping floor-mounted “cabinet”. Underneath is a “cave” with video art.

Testing the concept before final design. Movement, play and experience all go together.

Plan of the Children’s Museum.

Long section.

Detail section of sloping floormounted cabinet.

Long and cross section of the triangular opening cabinet doors.

Completion: 2014

Address:
Kirkegata 24b, Kristiansand

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Photo:
Jonas Adolfsen

The Children’s Art Museum in Kristiansand is part of the Southern Norway Art Museum, and is specifically aimed at children up to the age of ten years. The rooms have been organized so that the children can experience and explore objects that stimulate their curiosity and broaden their horizons. Through observation and movement the art museum becomes a playful experience and an exploration of what art is. The furniture, a number of cabinets that can be climbed and crawled into, is made of oak. A sloping floor holds small trap doors with objects inside for the children to study. One of the walls has little doors and ladders, with deep shelves that the children can stand on to study the artwork up close. Artwork is also installed in the ceiling.