Nordic Watercolour Museum, Art museum and cultural center in Skärhamn, Sweden.
The Nordic Watercolour Museum stands on the waterfront in Skärhamn on Tjörn, a building painted in Falu red designed by Danish architects Niels Bruun and Henrik Corfitsen after an international competition. Inside are exhibition halls, workshops, an auditorium and a restaurant; a 2012 extension of 400 square metres was designed by Tengbom. The museum has no permanent exhibition, presenting instead six to eight new exhibitions each year.
The museum opened in 2000, built to designs by the Danish architects Niels Bruun and Henrik Corfitsen, who won an international competition for the assignment. It is owned and run by a foundation set up by the Nordic Watercolour Society and Tjörn Municipality. Berndt Arell was its first director, 2000–2002, followed by Bera Nordal. A 400-square-metre extension by Tengbom was added in 2012.
The museum's own art scholarship, 7 Dagar, is awarded each year to working artists. Educational programmes, cultural events and research projects run alongside the exhibitions, and five guest studios on Bockholmen, next to the museum, host artistic development and can be rented by private individuals when space allows.
The museum stands on the waterfront at Skärhamn on Tjörn, about an hour's drive north of Gothenburg. Inside are exhibition halls, workshops, a lecture hall and a restaurant. A footbridge circles the building, and the sculpture Fyren, built of green bottle crates by Winter/Hoerbelt, sits on a small islet just offshore.
On a small islet just off the museum stands Fyren, a lighthouse sculpture built from green plastic bottle crates by the German duo Winter/Hoerbelt. Another work, Sjungande Invånare by Gunilla Hansson, is carved into the jetty that runs around the building. Five guest studios on Bockholmen host artists and can be rented when free.
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