Aarhus offers a wide range of opportunities for making your holiday a highly colourful experience.
There are wonderful handicraft workshops where you can watch the artist-craftsmen blowing life into glass or creating shapes out of clay in the open workshops. Or you can visit a wealth of galleries, exhibitions and art museums to see for yourself that arts and handicrafts are thriving healthily in this richly endowed, gently undulating landscape.
ARoS is the main art museum in Aarhus and one of the largest museums in Northern Europe.
In the downstairs area visitors can enjoy the major special exhibitions, with the 'nine rooms' presenting international installation art.
The large halls on the upper floors house the museum's own collections of art from the 19th century up to the present day. The restaurant is at the top, and from the roof there is a commanding view of the city and the bay. At the museum street level there is a café and a shop where admission is free.
The Aarhus Art Building is an art gallery for contemporary art - a seismograph picking up current trends within the world of art.
With 1,000 sq. metres of light and spacious exhibition halls, the Aarhus Art Building is one of Denmark’s largest and most beautiful exhibition venues for contemporary art.
The exhibition programme consists of solo exhibitions, thematic exhibitions, special exhibition formats for children and young people, and dialogue-exhibitions between Danish and international artists.
Covering paintings, sculptures, photography, installation art, performance art, film, and video, the entire spectrum of contemporary art is represented.
The Museum of Ancient Art at the University of Aarhus takes you on a cultural journey back to the Mediterranean countries in ancient times.
Here you can gaze upon an Egyptian mummy; on gifts offered to Greek gods; on drinking bowls from Greek celebrations; on coins from the pockets of Roman legionaries; and on a large selection of plaster reproductions of the antique world’s most famous sculptures.
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handicraft workshops and private galleries.