Skive Museum becomes Skive Kunstmuseum
Skive Museum will be a unique art museum. This will happen from the turn of the year until 2025, when the museum’s guests can step into a world of art.
Skive Museum is facing a change where art will take on a much larger role. From housing a combination of archaeology, historical and art history exhibitions, the museum will now be an unambiguous art museum: “After careful consideration, Museum Salling has decided to focus 100 percent on art exhibitions and art education at the museum on Havnevej in Skive,” reveals Morten Enggaard, Chairman of the Board of Museum Salling: The conversion to an art museum will take place at the turn of the year 2024/2025, when the building will also change its name to Skive Art Museum: “The total change of exhibitions and the planning of new art exhibitions will be an ongoing process over the next few years. We want to develop Skive Museum’s profile so clearly that all citizens, tourists and business partners in the future nod in recognition when the art museum’s theme is mentioned,” explains Museum Director Per Lunde Lauridsen.
After careful consideration, Museum Salling has decided to focus 100% on art exhibitions and art education at the museum’s department on Havnevej in Skive. We want to develop Skive Museum’s profile so clearly that all citizens, tourists and business partners in the future will recognize when the art museum’s theme is mentioned. Museum Salling has a great art collection that we would like to exhibit more works from, and we would like to collaborate with other art museums on more and larger exhibition projects. The exhibition In Deep Water with Peter Callesen’s works on paper has shown that there is a clear demand for good and interesting art exhibitions in Skive. The foundations are also happy to support such art projects when the quality and ambition are high.
Art in a beautiful setting
The decision to convert Skive Museum into an art museum was spurred by several circumstances. Among other things, the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces recommends in its latest quality assessment that the museum ‘ensures up-to-date exhibitions aimed at broader, geographical target groups in order to strengthen its relevance and increase its visitor numbers’.
“This is the same ambition that Museum Salling’s board and management want to set for the museum in Skive,” emphasizes Per Lunde Lauridsen. He explains that Museum Salling is well-equipped in the field of art and has a fine art collection that will really come into its own with the conversion to an art museum. Not least, the building’s architecture, updated premises, the visual arts school and the art project around the museum staircase and pathway support the targeted strategy for an art museum.
Pursuing the potential
With the conversion to an art museum, Museum Salling expects more people to visit and use the museum in Skive: “Until now, Skive Museum has housed a complicated and somewhat confusing combination of archaeology, history and art. The museum has simply not been attractive enough, which is also reflected in the visitor numbers. Such a beautiful museum has the potential for much more, and that’s what we want to pursue,” says Morten Enggaard and concludes:
“Our exhibition ‘In Deep Water’ with Peter Callesen’s artworks has shown that there is a clear demand for good and interesting art exhibitions in Skive. The foundations are also willing to support such art projects when the quality and ambition are high, and with a clear profile, we are also in a strong position to collaborate with other art museums on more and larger exhibition projects.”
ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORICAL OBJECTS WILL BE EXHIBITED HERE
Museum Salling is already in the process of modernizing Glyngøre Cultural Station and has a major development project at Spøttrup Borg. Here, the museum expects to create changing and permanent cultural history exhibitions. In addition, interdisciplinary exhibitions between art, natural and cultural history will be held in all the museum’s departments.
For further information, please contact:
Chairman of the Board Morten Enggaard, T: 51207531
or
Museum Manager Per Lunde Lauridsen, T: 22545188
