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Aarhus Kunstmuseum

ARoS

7 April 2004 was the official opening of ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in the presence, among other dignitaries, of the museum’s Patron Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. The 8 April the 17,700 square metre new building costing DKK 306m and sited in central Århus opened its doors to the public. The event marked a new era in the museum’s almost 150-year history: the provincial art museum with high ambitions now emerged as a national museum with international ambitions. To highlight its new profile, Aarhus Kunstmuseum has added ARoS to its name.

With its many square metres spanning ten levels the museum will have far more space in which to show its own extensive collection of 1100 paintings, 400 sculptures and installations, 200 art videos and over 7,000 drawings, photos and graphics: a collection that ahead of the inauguration was enhanced by the addition of works by international artists such as Bill Viola, Tony Oursler, Carsten Höller, Miwa Yanagi and James Turrell. In large measure, a donation of DKK 40m by New Carlsberg Foundation over a ten-year period enabled the purchase of these works.

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  • Aarhus Kunstmuseum
  • Aros Allé 2
  • 8000
  • Århus
  • DK

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