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Petter Dass-museet

Petter Dass-museet

Also known as Petter Dass Museum

Architect

Snøhetta

Year

2007

Style

Contemporary

Type

museum

Snøhetta's museum at Alstahaug begins with a subtraction: a cleft cable-sawn through the crest of the ridge immediately west of the medieval Alstahaug church, opening a void of roughly 70 by 15.5 m and establishing a new ground level…

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Petter Dass-museet
Petter Dass-museet

Timeline

  1. 2007

    Original construction

    Snøhetta

  2. 2007

    Completion

    The new museum building opened on 20 October together with its car park, set beside the medieval church and the eighteenth-century parsonage that already stood on the site. Snøhetta drew the building, which added a modern exhibition house…

    Snøhetta

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