Newly renovated museum 2022

During winter 2021-22, the Oluf Høst Museum has been renovated at a cost of more than 14 million danish kroner.

Thanks to generous grants from The A.P. Møller and Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller’s Fund, the Augustinus Fund, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Fund, Knud Højgaard’s Fund, The 15th June Fund, Sparekassen Bornholm´s Fund, Brødrende E.,S., & A. Larsens Legat and Bornholms Brandforsikring, we have secured an important piece of Danish cultural heritage.

All walls and surfaces have been given a makeover, inside the building as well as outside.

The museum’s red pain on the facade has been removed, and the Norresân has been whitewashed again in the traditional Bornholm way –  in the red colour that, in the case of Høst, was carefully selected, like everything else in the original artist’s home.

Thanks to The 15. June Foundation, the rock garden’s flower beds and plantings have been cleared and tidied, so that house and garden are once again beautifully connected.

Inside the building, a modern museum has emerged.

A new floor has been added. The previously unused basement houses toilets, a cloakroom and a cinema today. The basement is connected to the rest of the building by an elevator. After 23 yearsthe Oluf Høst Museum is finally accessable to all kinds of visitors.

Several of Norresån’s rooms have been restored to their original state.

We have created direct access to Oluf Høst’s winter studio on the first floor and optimised the exhibition rooms for Oluf Høst’s art works on the ground floor with more wall space and more light.

It has been crucial for the architecht ”Jørgen Overbye’s  Tegnestue” to take care of the history and authenticity of the villa “Norresån” by ensuring the connection between the painter’s works and home.

The fund grants have also given us better climate, light and security for the museum’s impressive collection of Oluf Høst’s works.

Oluf Høst´s art works would most likely have been sold all over the world. But the outbreak World War II prevented him from the international breakthrough, he was facing after several international exhibitions; New York in 1927, the Venice Biennale in 1934 and The World Exhibition in1935, to mention a few.

Bornholm and the island’s many visitors can now experience a pioneer of Danish art in one of Denmark’s most spectacular and beautifully preserved museums, located in the artist’s home in Gudhjem, between cliffs and horizon – in the middle of Oluf Høst’s world of motifs.