Hamsunsenteret

Museum in Norway

The Knut Hamsun Centre (Norwegian: Hamsunsenteret) is a museum and educational centre in Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is dedicated to the life and work of the writer Knut Hamsun. The architect Steven Holl was first contacted about designing a centre for Knut Hamsun in 1994. He traveled to Hamarøy and made a watercolour of the centre's design that looks quite similar to the building today. Holl was inspired by the Hamarøy nature and scenery, by Norwegian building tradition with stave churches and sod roofs, and by Hamsun's literature—especially the early works Hunger (189

From Knut Hamsun Centre on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Coordinates:

68.08°N, 15.65°E

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