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Exhibition: Made In Bodø
Oct.
18.
until 14 Nov.
Bodø City Museum

Exhibition: Made In Bodø

The City Museum in Bodø invites you into the city's industrial heritage with the Made in exhibition Bodø Here you will learn about workshops and factories throughout the 20th century, and reflect on how local industry, production and working life have left their mark – in the city, in society and in people.

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Opening party Hamsun Center
June
12.
The Hamsun Center

Opening party Hamsun Center

Nordland County Council and the Hamsun Center invite you to a grand opening after a long construction period. The Hamsun Center has been wrapped in tarpaulin and the exhibitions have been inaccessible to the public since November 2025, while the rehabilitation has been ongoing. Now a new facade and sealed windows and walls will make the unique building weatherproof. 

– We call this new era the Hamsun Center 2.0. The upgrade and transformation make room for new stories and narratives. Completely in the spirit of Hamsun, says director Monica Celius. 

Nordland County Council owns the Hamsun Center and has financed the entire rehabilitation. Fauske Bygg AS is a contractor. On June 12, the doors will open with the County Councilor for Society, Culture and Environment, Arne Ivar Mikalsen (L) and the County Councilor for Development and Property, Sisilja Viksund (R). 

– We have been looking forward to this day. There have been constructional defects in the building since its opening in 2010, but now the contractor has done a very good job and the building is almost like new. Then it can finally come into its own and open the doors to this enormous cultural treasure for everyone who wants to get a broader impression of Knut Hamsun, says Viksund County Councillor. 

The opening will include both a "cord cutting" and the start of the Hamsun Center's summer season 2026. There will be speeches, artistic features, new exhibitions and literary and architectural coincidences. As always, Café Sult offers something extra good. 

This will be a big and important day for both the Hamsun Center and Nordland County Council. The event is free and open to everyone.

Photo: Karoline OA Pettersen

PROGRAM FOR THE DAY 

13.00: Opening in the Adventure Hall. Welcome by Monica Celius, director of the Hamsun Center. 

13.00: Speech by County Councilor Arne Ivar Mikalsen and County Councilor Silija Viksund, NFK 

13.10: Speech by Britt Kristoffersen Løksa, mayor Hamarøy 

1.15pm: Speech by Ole Jakob Furset, director Nordlandsmuseet 

13.20: Short break  

1:30 PM: Conversation between musician Stian Grønbech and literary scholar Sigurd Stranda 

1:45 PM: Free access to the tower and refreshments in Café Sult. New exhibitions on the 4th and 5th floors 

2:15 PM: We meet on the 5th floor. Reading from "Svermere" by presenter Maria Ellingsen Austbø  

14.30: Back in the Adventure Hall. Closing and musical interpretation of “The Wild Choir” by Elias Jung aka Stian Grønbech 

15.10 – 16.00: Free access to the tower and open café Sult 

  

Saturday 13 June: Open 10:00 – 18:00. Half price admission and free coffee with your ticket. Premiere of the entire summer program, with lectures and tours 

Sunday June 14: Open 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM 

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Summer program at the Hamsun Center
June
13.
until Aug. 16
The Hamsun Center

Summer program at the Hamsun Center

The summer season at the Hamsun Center begins on June 13th. The center will be open every day, and we will start the daily program where you can, among other things, participate in an architectural walk and attend this year's lecture on Knut Hamsun. The summer season lasts until August 16th.

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Performance Studies in Sápmi
June
28.
until June 29
Bodø City Museum

Performance Studies in Sápmi

Performance Studies in Sápmi: 28 and 29 June

Performance Studies in Sápmi is a performance art festival dedicated to exploring embodied practices, Indigenous perspectives, and site-responsive works in the context of Sápmi. The festival brings together artists working across performance, movement, and interdisciplinary practices to engage with cultural heritage, identity, and place.The festival is held at the City Museum in Bodø June 28th and 29th.

28 June — Performance program 13.00–18.00

Marija Griniuk Performance Art Techno Youth is a performance work created in collaboration with young performance artists from Bodø , where the artists explore the relationship between history, tradition and technology. Supported by SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge.

Johan Sara Jr. and Katarina Skår Lisa Collaborative performance. Johan Sara Jr. has a close connection to the sea and coastal life. Katarina Skår Lisa has Maritime Sami roots from Sør-Varanger and conveys her Sami heritage through dance.

Elin Kåven Performance. Elin Kåven is an award-winning yoiker and artist from Karasjok, known for blending Sami mythology and tradition with contemporary musical expression. In this concert she performs yoikers with a drum.

Kurt Johannessen Performance «Landscape 9». Kurt Johannessen (b. 1960) has worked with performance, books, video and installation since the early 1980s. He presents a new performance work on Nordlandsmuseet .

Annette Arlander Performance "Birch to Birch". As a continuation of previous works, Annette Arlander will perform greetings from a birch in Helsinki to birches in Bodø .

Marit Bringedal Anti and Greta Balčiūnaitė Collaborative performance in which the artists dress as mythological beings inspired by their respective cultures and explore how cultural differences shape notions of the mythical.

Joana Gelažytė Performance «The Hearth of Memory» is a ritual exploration of shared cultural heritage. Joana Gelažytė is a performance artist based in Oslo.

29 June — Seminar program 10.00–14.00

Kurt Johannessen "About the present and the past". Kurt Johannessen talks about his own work in museums and sees it in the context of the experiences from the project About Something.

Presentations of book chapters for the upcoming publication Liveness and Performance in Museums . Feedback facilitated by Philip Auslander .

Theresa Thuv PhD candidate at Nord University. Presents reflections from 12 years of collaboration with Løp farm.

The braid as a manifesto machine: articulation of artistic practice beyond the artist's statement

Adelheid Mers

How do artists work? By conceptually separating profession from vocation, cultural institutions have long modeled a division of labor that separates creative practice from interpretation, administration, and marketing, while artists are increasingly expected to perform precisely this work behind the scenes. These attributions operate within binary mindsets and also present conflicting aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic logics, along with their associated bureaucracies. How do artists’ self-representations contrast with this? What worldviews might they contain that might open up other ways of working?

29 June — Workshop 15:00–18:00

Elin Kåven — Basic yoik

This yoik course is for anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of yoik. What is yoik, where is it practiced, how was it traditionally used, and how can one approach yoik with respect for Sami culture?

The course is three hours long and covers the history and elements of the yoik, practicing traditional yoiks and various vocal technique approaches, as well as tips on how to yoik yourself. No prior knowledge is required.

Tickets are available at the City Museum in Bodø and Fticket.

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Performance Studies in Sápmi part II 2026 Performance seminar during Bodø Biennale, September 12, 11:00–15:00 Bodø City Museum, Prinsens gate 116, Bodø



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Engine start on Batterie Dietl
July
10.

Engine start on Batterie Dietl

Would you like to experience when we start the machine down in the basement of the gun bunker? The engine was manufactured by Maschinenwerke Mannheim in 1942 and powered the generator that supplied the bunker with electricity. It still works!

Come to see, hear and smell!

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Hey Frida!
July
11.
to 12. July
Steigen Folk Museum

Hey Frida!

Frida is very happy to have visitors and chat away over a cup of coffee. There is actually a lot to do in the house and garden, and maybe you or your children can help a little?

An activity for the whole family: every day something new happens.

Frida bakes, cooks, washes clothes. Come by!

The event is suitable for the whole family, of all ages. Frida primarily speaks Norwegian, but can also speak English if needed.

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Engine start on Batterie Dietl
July
26.

Engine start on Batterie Dietl

Would you like to experience when we start the machine down in the basement of the gun bunker? The engine was manufactured by Maschinenwerke Mannheim in 1942 and powered the generator that supplied the bunker with electricity. It still works!

Come to see, hear and smell!

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