ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
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EstablishedJanuary 6, 1859 (1859-01-06)
Present site opened on April 7, 2004 (2004-04-07)
Visitors569.324 in 2015[1]
Public transit access816.468 in 2015[1]
Websitewww.aros.dk

The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The museum was established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 7 April 2004, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 stories tall with a total floor area of 20,700 m²[2] and designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Today, ARoS is one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe with a total of 980,909 visitors in 2017.

Apart from the large galleries with both permanent and changing exhibitions, the ARoS building features an arts shop, a dining café and a restaurant. The architectural vision of the museum was completed in 2011, with the addition of the circular skywalk Your rainbow panorama by Ólafur Elíasson. The installation has helped boost the museum's attendance, making it the second most visited museum in Denmark, just behind the well-known Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk.[3]

  1. ^ a b Aros.dk: Bedste år nogensinde [Best year ever] Archived 2017-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Om ARoS".
  3. ^ Gulstad, Hanne Cecilie (28 August 2013). "Eliasson's room with a rainbow view brings record visitors to Aros". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013.

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